Proposal for “Optical character recognition”

By.Isha Govind Roll no 47 Div.-D

OBJECTIVE
To study the development in Optical character recognition method.

INTRODUCTION
In today’s world advancement in sophisticated scientific techniques is pushing further the limits of human
outreach in various fields of technology. One such field is the field of character recognition commonly known as
OCR (Optical Character Recognition).In this fast paced world there is an immense urge for the digitalization of
printed documents and documentation of information directly in digital form. And there is still some gap in this
area even today. OCR techniques and their continuous improvisation from time to time are trying to fill this gap.
Optical character recognition is a scheme which enables a computer to learn, understand, improvise and interpret
the printed character in their own language, but present correspondingly as specified by the user. Optical
Character Recognition uses the image processing technique to identify any character computer/typewriter
printed. A lot of work has been done in this field. But a continuous improvisation of OCR techniques is being
done based on the fact that algorithm must have higher accuracy of recognition, higher persistency in number of
times of correct prediction and increased execution time.

PURPOSE OF RESEARCH
The idea is to device efficient algorithms which get input in digital image format. After that it processes the
image for better comparison. Then after the processed image is compared with already available set of font
images. The last step gives the text in the digital image in an editable form which can be used in future. It
provides a user module in which only the authorized and the registered users have the accessibility to use the
DMS (Document management system) and use the OCR conversion technology. This provides security and
authentication to the system. It also involves a admin module in which admin will be monitoring all the tasks
performed by the users as well as has the power to discard any of the user found unauthorized. If any of the new
user wants to access to or download any file of a DMS ,the request will be sent to the admin and after checking
his record admin will decide whether the access permission to that file should be granted or not to the users.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research methodology involves 5 steps. They are:
a) Preprocessing of image
b) Indexing and boxing of characters
c) Cropping, reshaping and resizing
d) Training and testing the network
e) Identification of characters
CONCLUSION
The implementation of Optical Character Recognition in Document Management System can be efficiently used
to speed up the conversion of image based documents into editable format text in a file are currently easy to
discover, process and search. The OCR technology and Document Management System is one of the most
attractive, labor reducing technology. The recognition of characters by this system is very quick. The extension
to software other than editing and searching is topic to future works.

FUTURE SCOPE
Training and future recognition speed can be increased greater by greater making it more user friendly. Many
application exists where it would be desirable to read handwritten entries. As reading handwriting is very
difficult task, though the progress will be made. So, in future we try to be improved the accuracy of the
presentation Optical Character Recognition system by better image preprocessing of image of any angle and
feature extracting method and add many features through which used will be more served in Document
Management System.

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