• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.101-108
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• 2024

AI-OCR (Artificial Intelligence Optical Character Recognition) combines OCR technology with Artificial Intelligence to overcome limitations that required human intervention. To enhance the performance of AI-OCR, training on diverse data sets is essential. However, the recognition rate declines when image colors have similar brightness levels. To solve this issue, this study employs Homomorphic filtering as a preprocessing step to clearly differentiate color levels, thereby increasing text recognition rates. While Homomorphic filtering is ideal for text extraction because of its ability to adjust the high and low frequency components of an image separately using a gamma value, it has the downside of requiring manual adjustments to the gamma value. This research proposes a range for gamma threshold values based on tests involving image contrast, brightness, and entropy. Experimental results using the proposed range of gamma values in Homomorphic filtering suggest a high likelihood for effective AI-OCR performance.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.2 s.105
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• pp.89-96
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose two approaches for the character segmentation on Korean document images. One is an improved version of a projection profile-based algorithm. It involves estimating the number of characters, obtaining the split points and then searching for each character's boundary, and selecting the best segmentation result. The other is developed for low quality document images where adjacent characters are connected. In this case, parts of the projection profile are cut to resolve the connection between the characters. This is called ${\alpha}$-cut. Afterwards, the revised former segmentation procedure is conducted. The two approaches have been tested with 43,572 low-quality Korean word images punted in various font styles. The segmentation accuracies of the former and the latter are 91.81% and 99.57%, respectively. This result shows that the proposed algorithm using a ${\alpha}$-cut is effective for low-quality Korean document images.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.299-306
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• 2020

Image recognition using neural networks is widely used in various fields. In this study, we investigated licensed / unlicensed vehicle recognition systems necessary for vehicle number recognition and control when entering and exiting a specific area. This system is equipped with the function of recognizing the image, so it checks all the information on the vehicle number and adds the function to accurately recognize the vehicle number plate. In addition, it is possible to check the vehicle number more quickly using a neural network.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.5 s.101
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• pp.521-526
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• 2005

In this Paper, we propose a keyword spotting system as an alternative to searching system for poor quality Korean document images and compare the Proposed system with an OCR-based document retrieval system. The system is composed of character segmentation, feature extraction for the query keyword, and word-to-word matching. In the character segmentation step, we propose an effective method to remove the connectivity between adjacent characters and a character segmentation method by making the variance of character widths minimum. In the query creation step, feature vector for the query is constructed by a combination of a character model by typeface. In the matching step, word-to-word matching is applied base on a character-to-character matching. We demonstrated that the proposed keyword spotting system is more efficient than the OCR-based one to search a keyword on the Korean document images, especially when the quality of documents is quite poor and point size is small.

• 한국어정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.310-312
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• 2016

OCR(Optical Character Recognition)의 오류를 줄이기 위해 본 논문에서는 교정 어휘 쌍의 혼동 행렬(confusion matrix)과 나이브 베이즈 분류기($na{\ddot{i}}ve$ Bayes classifier)를 이용한 철자 교정 시스템을 제안한다. 본 시스템에서는 철자 오류 중 한글에 대한 철자 오류만을 교정하였다. 실험에 사용된 말뭉치는 한국어 원시 말뭉치와 OCR 출력 말뭉치, OCR 정답 말뭉치이다. 한국어 원시 말뭉치로부터 자소 단위의 언어모델(language model)과 교정 후보 검색을 위한 접두사 말뭉치를 구축했고, OCR 출력 말뭉치와 OCR 정답 말뭉치로부터 교정 어휘 쌍을 추출하고, 자소 단위로 분해하여 혼동 행렬을 만들고, 이를 이용하여 오류 모델(error model)을 구축했다. 접두사 말뭉치를 이용해서 교정 후보를 찾고 나이브 베이즈 분류기를 통해 확률이 높은 교정 후보 n개를 제시하였다. 후보 n개 내에 정답 어절이 있다면 교정을 성공하였다고 판단했고, 그 결과 약 97.73%의 인식률을 가지는 OCR에서, 3개의 교정 후보를 제시하였을 때, 약 0.28% 향상된 98.01%의 인식률을 보였다. 이는 한글에 대한 오류를 교정했을 때이며, 향후 특수 문자와 숫자 등을 복합적으로 처리하여 교정을 시도한다면 더 나은 결과를 보여줄 것이라 기대한다.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.310-312
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• 2016

OCR(Optical Character Recognition)의 오류를 줄이기 위해 본 논문에서는 교정 어휘 쌍의 혼동 행렬(confusion matrix)과 나이브 베이즈 분류기($na{\ddot{i}}ve$ Bayes classifier)를 이용한 철자 교정 시스템을 제안한다. 본 시스템에서는 철자 오류 중 한글에 대한 철자 오류만을 교정하였다. 실험에 사용된 말뭉치는 한국어 원시 말뭉치와 OCR 출력 말뭉치, OCR 정답 말뭉치이다. 한국어 원시 말뭉치로부터 자소 단위의 언어 모델(language model)과 교정 후보 검색을 위한 접두사 말뭉치를 구축했고, OCR 출력 말뭉치와 OCR 정답 말뭉치로부터 교정 어휘 쌍을 추출하고, 자소 단위로 분해하여 혼동 행렬을 만들고, 이를 이용하여 오류 모델(error model)을 구축했다. 접두사 말뭉치를 이용해서 교정 후보를 찾고 나이브 베이즈 분류기를 통해 확률이 높은 교정 후보 n개를 제시하였다. 후보 n개 내에 정답 어절이 있다면 교정을 성공하였다고 판단했고, 그 결과 약 97.73%의 인식률을 가지는 OCR에서, 3개의 교정 후보를 제시하였을 때, 약 0.28% 향상된 98.01%의 인식률을 보였다. 이는 한글에 대한 오류를 교정했을 때이며, 향후 특수 문자와 숫자 등을 복합적으로 처리하여 교정을 시도한다면 더 나은 결과를 보여줄 것이라 기대한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.3B
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• pp.267-274
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• 2002

In this paper, the real-time color pattern recognition system is experimented by optical approach using the SLM(TH LCD) and a photorefractive material. In the implemented system, the character patterns to recognize are controlled of an SLM, and a 10mm thick LiNbO$_3$ crystal having high angular selectivity and photorefractive effect is used for recording materials. The shape and color informations of the red or green color patterns are excellently discriminated at independent positions by real-time processing, as the results obtained by proposed optical architecture.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.143-174
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• 2023

With the development of deep learning technologies, Artificial Intelligence powered Optical Character Recognition (AI-OCR) has evolved to read multiple languages from various forms of images accurately. For the financial industry, where a large number of diverse documents are processed through manpower, the potential for using AI-OCR is great. In this study, we present a configuration and a design of an AI-OCR modality for use in the financial industry and discuss the platform construction with application cases. Since the use of financial domain data is prohibited under the Personal Information Protection Act, we developed a deep learning-based data generation approach and used it to train the AI-OCR models. The AI-OCR models are trained for image preprocessing, text recognition, and language processing and are configured as a microservice architected platform to process a broad variety of documents. We have demonstrated the AI-OCR platform by applying it to financial domain tasks of document sorting, document verification, and typing assistance The demonstrations confirm the increasing work efficiency and conveniences.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.451-457
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• 2020

Format recognition and OCR techniques are widely used as methods for detecting and protecting personal information from electronic documents. However, due to the poor recognition rate of the OCR engine, personal information cannot be detected or false positives commonly occur. It also takes a long time to analyze a large amount of electronic documents. In this paper, we propose a method to improve the speed of image analysis of electronic documents, character recognition rate of the OCR engine, and detection rate of personal information by improving the existing method. The analysis speed was increased using the format recognition method while the analysis speed and character recognition rate of the OCR engine was improved by image correction. An algorithm for analyzing personal information from images was proposed to increase the reconnaissance rate of personal information. Through the experiments, 1755 image format recognition samples were analyzed in an average time of 0.24 seconds, which was 0.5 seconds higher than the conventional PAID system format recognition method, and the image recognition rate was 99%. The proposed method in this paper can be used in various fields such as public, telecommunications, finance, tourism, and security as a system to protect personal information in electronic documents.

• Database Research
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.148-158
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• 2018

The optical character recognition (OCR) is a technique to extract and recognize texts from images. It is an important preprocessing step in data analysis since most actual text information is embedded in images. Many OCR engines have high recognition accuracy for images where texts are clearly separable from background, such as white background and black lettering. However, they have low recognition accuracy for images where texts are not easily separable from complex background. To improve this low accuracy problem with complex images, it is necessary to transform the input image to make texts more noticeable. In this paper, we propose a method to segment an input image into text lines to enable OCR engines to recognize each line more efficiently, and to determine the final output by comparing the recognition rates of CLAHE module and Two-step module which distinguish texts from background regions based on image processing techniques. Through thorough experiments comparing with well-known OCR engines, Tesseract and Abbyy, we show that our proposed method have the best recognition accuracy with complex background images.