Optical character reader

Abstract

Abstract PURPOSE:To increase the size range of a sheet that can be read and to prevent the sheet skews or jams by varying the feeding/setting direction of the sheet to be read based on information set previously. CONSTITUTION:A control part 15 controls properly the sheet feeding/setting direction based on the format control information on a sheet designated previously by an operator. This controlled direction is displayed on a display device 20. The sheet carried in a prescribed direction is scanned and a character pattern on the sheet is stored in a sheet buffer memory 12. A detecting/segmenting part 13 calculates the position and direction of a character row based on the format control information given from the part 15. Then the character pattern is detected and segmented for each character and then recognized by a character recognizing part 14.

Inventors

• 👤 Hiromi Nanba
• 👤 難波　広海

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