RECOGNITION DEVICE, RECOGNITION METHOD AND PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently reject a character string prohibited or the like and to accurately recognize the character string.SOLUTION: A recognition device comprises: a candidate detection section detecting character candidates being a group of pixels estimated to include characters from an input image; a recognition section recognizing individual ones of the character candidates and generating at least one recognition candidate being the characters of the candidate of recognition results; a collation section collating each of at least one recognition candidate with a knowledge dictionary obtained by modeling a character string of a recognition object and generating at least one collation result obtained by collating a character string to be included in the input image with the knowledge dictionary; and Japanese hyphenation section deleting the collation result obtained by collating a character string including a character string of a prohibition object out of at least one collation result with the knowledge dictionary.