RECORDING MEDIUM FOR CHARACTER RECOGNITION PROGRAM, CHARACTER RECOGNITION ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS, CHARACTER RECOGNITION DEVICE, CHARACTER RECOGNITION METHOD

摘要

To suppress both increase in the memory usage amount and the processing time due to increase in the recognition target language. Provided is a character recognition program for causing a computer to execute the steps of category specifying step of storing dictionary data given one or a plurality of categories for categorizing a character with respect to each registered character data in a storage unit, and specifying the category by a specifying unit; character image acquiring step of acquiring a character image of recognition target by a character image acquiring unit; check target reduction step of reducing a check target to the registered character data given a category specified in the specifying step of the registered character data registered in the dictionary data; checking step of checking the character in the character image with each registered character data of the check target reduced in the check target reduction step; and character outputting step of outputting the character recognized from the check result by an output unit.