Character recognition and document interpretation method and system based on layout recognition

A character recognition system including at least one computing device, the character recognition system comprising:

• a character-related information extraction unit configured to include a deep learning model trained to extract character area information, inter-character space area information, interline scale information of each character, and orientation information of each character from an image including text;
• a word unit division recognition unit configured to obtain word division information obtained by dividing characters included in the image into word units based on the character area information and inter-character space area information;
• a text line recognition unit configured to recognize text lines in the image based on the character area information, interline scale information, and orientation information;
• a layout analysis unit configured to obtain layout information of the text included in the image based on the recognized text lines;
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• a character recognition unit configured to recognize each of the character included in the image and obtain text data in which the recognized characters are aligned based on the word division information and the layout information.