METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING A LANGUAGE USED IN A DOCUMENT AND PERFORMING OCR RECOGNITION BASED ON THE LANGUAGE IDENTIFIED

摘要

A method and apparatus for identifying a language used in a document based on a number of strokes per character is provided herein. Once identified, character recognition may take place based on the language identified. In one embodiment, a character recognition engine is utilized for character recognition, wherein the character recognition engine is specifically tailored to the identified language.