Hybrid model for Chinese character recognition based on Tesseract-OCR Online publication date: Thu, 02-Apr-2020
by Bo Wang; Yi-Wei Ma; Hong-Tao Hu
International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology (IJIPT), Vol. 13, No. 2, 2020
Abstract: Optical character recognition (OCR) is an important way to input information into a computer. And text information can be extracted by OCR from an image. Currently, the accuracy rate of Chinese OCR can also be improved. This study proposes a hybrid Chinese character recognition model based on the characteristics of Chinese. Before the OCR engine works, the model first filters the interference information in the image. Then the model adjusts the aspect ratio of the character. After an image is identified by OCR, single character recognition result is obtained. Then the result is checked and corrected on the phrase level. The experimental results show that the hybrid model improves the accuracy rate of Chinese OCR. Through image processing, the correct rate of recognition by the Tesseract-OCR engine is increased by about 12%, and the natural language processing improves the accuracy of the recognition result by about 5%.
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