Development of an OCR System

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Development of an OCR System
Nathan Harmata Period 5
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What is OCR?
Optical Character Recognition
Font and handwriting based
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Goals of My Project
Generic recognition for Latin-based fonts
Proper handling of most formatting
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Potential Issues
"Noise"
Weird formatting or page content
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How the current version works
Input png file Courier font, size 24
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How the current version works
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How the current version works
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How the current version works
Integer pixel counts for each quadrant
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How the current version works
Cache system Uppercase, lowercase, and
punctuation Spaces and newlines Compares with
's, not integers