Date identifying apparatus, date identifying method, and computer-readable recording medium

A date identifying method comprising:

• segmenting date area data, the date area data being data of an area to which a date is estimated to be provided, from image data generated by capturing a medium to which the date is provided;
• generating binarized data by binarizing the date area data;
• executing an identifying process for executing a recognizing process using deep learning on the binarized data to identify a character string included in the date area data;
• correcting an identified result of the identifying process in accordance with a kind of a font of the character string;
• and
• providing, to the image data, date data based on the corrected character string included in the corrected identified result, wherein,
• when the kind of the font is a Data SEGment (DSEG) font, correcting the identified result based on a number of segments constituting each numeric character included in the identified result, and
• when the kind of the font is the font other than the DSEG font, correcting the identified result based on a positional relation between characters included in the identified result.

A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having stored therein a date identifying program, the date identifying program causing a processor to execute a process comprising:

• segmenting date area data, the date area data being data of an area to which a date is estimated to be provided, from image data generated by capturing a medium to which the date is provided;
• generating binarized data by binarizing the date area data;
• executing an identifying process for executing a recognizing process using deep learning on the binarized data to identify a character string included in the date area data;
• correcting an identified result of the identifying process in accordance with a kind of a font of the character string;
• and
• providing, to the image data, date data based on the corrected character string included in the corrected identified result, wherein,
• when the kind of the font is a Data SEGment (DSEG) font, correcting the identified result based on a number of segments constituting each numeric character included in the identified result, and
• when the kind of the font is the font other than the DSEG font, correcting the identified result based on a positional relation between characters included in the identified result.