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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a character recognizing device and a character recognizing method capable of recognizing characters by avoiding reduction in the recognition rate and the recognition speed. SOLUTION: In an optical character recognizing device(OCR) 10, a frame area including characters in image data 30 fetched in an image storage part 12 is segmented, a polygonal area is further segmented according to the shapes of the characters of the frame area of the read image data by a frame coordinate extracting part 14, the polygonal area is disassembled to rectangles by a rectangle disassembling part 22, pieces of apex coordinate data 43 of each rectangle are stored in a rectangle storage part 26, presence/absence of contact between characters is decided based on the rectangles read from the rectangle storage part 26 by a contact deciding part 28 from physical relation between coordinates, a dictionary switching part 24 is switched according to a decision result by a control part 20 and the characters are recognized for image data 32 to be supplied by using information 38 about recognition standard from a dictionary according to control by the control part 20 by a recognizing part 18.
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