| 摘要 |
<p>A word recognition method of performing recognition processing with respect to each word candidate obtained by reading characters in character information written in a reading material is provided. This word recognition method includes a matching processing step (12) of collating each word candidate with a plurality of words in a word dictionary and calculating, every word, a matching score indicative of a degree that each word candidate matches with a word, a character quality score calculating step (13) of calculating a character quality score indicative of a degree that a character candidate constituting each word candidate matches with an arbitrary character, and a correcting step (14) of correcting a matching score obtained at the matching processing step (12) based on a character quality score acquired at the character quality score calculating step (13).</p> |
