Character input device, character input method and character input program

摘要

A character input device including a data processing device which is provided with a character extraction device for extracting an image of a character portion from an image photographed by a photographing device, a character recognition device for recognizing a character from the image of the character portion and making a character recognition result with its reliability added into character recognition data, and a recognition data synthesizing device for detecting and connecting overlap portions in the character recognition data obtained from a plurality of images of the same document, as well as selecting character recognition data whose reliability is high with respect to the overlap portions to synthesize the plurality of the character recognition data into one synthetic recognition data; a recognition data storage device for storing synthetic recognition data; and a display device for displaying a photographed image and a character recognition result.