OPTICAL CHARACTER READER APPARATUS AND OPTICAL CHARACTER READING METHOD

摘要

An optical character reader apparatus and reading method is provided to optically read character written on a document card to extract as a word a character group read as such for thereby collating for recognition the extracted word with words previously registered. Such a word is rendered to the collation for each character constituting that word. Thereupon, when the number of constituent characters constituting the extracted word is greater than a prescribed number, it is judged whether or not each constituent character is a vowel, and, if so, removed from an object to be collated, and otherwise rendered to the collation with respect to characters other than vowels. As a result, a word which is found to have the largest number of coincident characters among previously registered words, is selected as a candidate word and delivered as the concerning word read from the document card.