CHARACTER RECOGNITION DEVICE, CHARACTER RECOGNITION METHOD, AND PROGRAM

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CHARACTER RECOGNITION DEVICE, CHARACTER RECOGNITION METHOD, AND PROGRAM

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 19014383 titled 'CHARACTER RECOGNITION DEVICE, CHARACTER RECOGNITION METHOD, AND PROGRAM

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A character recognition device of an embodiment includes a first score calculation unit, a character region estimation unit, a second score calculation unit, and a selection unit. The first score calculation unit calculates a first score indicating a likelihood of a character string, or the first score for each of a plurality of candidate character strings which are candidates for character strings included in an input image. The character region estimation unit estimates a region corresponding to each character included in the candidate character string among regions of the input image. The second score calculation unit calculates a second score indicating a consistency of characters included in the candidate character string on the basis of the estimated region. The selection unit selects one or more character strings from among the plurality of candidate character strings on the basis of the calculated first score and the calculated second score.