Method, system and computer readable recording medium for correcting ocr result
AssigneeNhn Corporation
InventorsByoung Seok YANG, Hee Cheol Seo, Do Gil Lee, Ki Joon Sung
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Abstract
Disclosed is a method, system and computer readable recording medium for correcting an OCR result. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for correcting an OCR result, the method including performing character recognition on content including character information using an OCR technique, removing extra carriage return information from the content, outputting the character recognition result, and correcting word spacing on the outputted result.
Claims21
A method for correcting an optical character recognition (OCR) result, the method comprising:
- performing character recognition on a content using an OCR technique, the content comprising character information;
- removing extra carriage return information from the result of performing character recognition, wherein the extra carriage return information comprises carriage return information other than carriage return information indicating a start of a paragraph or an end of a paragraph;
- outputting a character recognition result after removing the extra carriage return information;
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- correcting word spacing on the outputted character recognition result.
A system for correcting an optical character recognition (OCR) result, the system comprising:
- a character recognition unit to perform character recognition on a content using an OCR technique, the content comprising character information, to remove extra carriage return information from the result of performing character recognition, the extra carriage return information comprising carriage return information other than carriage return information indicating a start of a paragraph or an end of a paragraph, and to output a character recognition result after removal of the extra carriage return information;
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- a language model unit to receive the outputted character recognition result and to correct word spacing on the outputted character recognition result.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium comprising an executable program which, when executed, performs the steps of:
- performing character recognition on a content using an OCR technique, the content comprising character information;
- removing extra carriage return information from the result of character recognition, wherein the extra carriage return information comprises carriage return information other than carriage return information indicating a start of a paragraph or an end of a paragraph;
- outputting a character recognition result after removing the extra carriage return information;
- and
- correcting word spacing on the outputted character recognition result.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.