1 board Kanji OCR for a personal computer
Masahiro Shimizu, Mariko Takenouchi, Yasushi Waki, Akie Fujiwara, Tohru Yokoe · 1st IASTED International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications · 1987
The most frequent use for a personal computer at hone and office is word processing. The capability of computers is growing very rapidly, but data is still input by hand, especially in Japan, where more than 3,000 different KANJI (Chinese ideographs) and alpha-numeric characters are used daily in publications and newspapers. When Japanese characters are input from a keyboard, the average input speed is about 40 characters per minute by experienced operators. OCRs for KANJI have been developed by many companies in Japan, but they cost more than $10,000. They are so expensive that they are usually unaffordable for a personal use. The development of an inexpensive and high speed OCR for a personal computer is very much desired.