摘要 |
A character recognition method and device including extracting a character pattern based on information of an input character image and information about a structure of a character category and comparing the extracted character pattern with the character category corresponding to the character pattern to calculate the similarity, where the character category is representative of a character to be output after recognition of the input character image. The method and device include outputting as a recognition result of the input character image the character category with a maximum similarity obtained by the calculation or information of characters which are candidates of the character category whose similarities have been calculated.
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