Optical Character Recognition

From the Publisher: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) has become an important and widely used technology. Among its many practical applications are the scanners used at store check-out counters, money changing machines, office scanning machines, and the efforts to automate the postal system. Research is particularly active in Japan where one important goal is to develop economical machines that can read Kanji characters. Such machines will be widely used in offices as man-machine interfaces. Dr. Mori from the Ricoh R&D Center in Japan has used his experience in optical character recognition to create a thorough reference to this widely used but still growing technology.