| 摘要 |
A reference line detecting step 4 assumes two reference lines dividing a character row image into three, i.e., upper, intermediate and lower areas to be quadratic curves independent of one another, and obtains parameters determining the two reference lines such as to best separate the length distributions of white runs in the three areas from one another. A reference line correcting step 5 corrects the character row image from the parameters and the same image such as to obtain two horizontal reference lines and predetermined values of area (i.e., height) ratios of the three areas, and feeds the corrected image back to a preprocessing step 2. A character row reading step 3 executes character segmentation, feature extraction and character recognition with the character row image from the preprocessing means 2. The means 3 executes selection of the character recognition results, and outputs a most likely read-out result.
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