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• Intro
• What does “OCR” mean and what does it do?
• Printing and scanning — the yin and yang of computers
• Scanners
• From paper to pixels
• Putting peripherals in the center
• “Running” the hardware
• Putting the hardware to work
• OCR has become mainstream
• Images
• The text is in the eye of the beholder
• The intelligence of OCR
• Bitmaps only take you so far
• 90,000 kids on the block
• OCR is the ultimate data cruncher
• OCR deserves recognition
• History
• Where does this technology come from?
• Reaping the benefits of the neural revolution
• … Or do word recognition!
• Each expert casts his vote
• Autolearning font shapes
• Putting more feet on the street
• … With a document revolution thrown in
• OCR
• Let’s take things step by step, shall we?
• Take us where the rainbow ends!
• B Is for binarize
• What gets read and what doesn’t
• What are page decomposition and page analysis?
• Lines, lineskew and drop letters
• Segmenting words and characters
• Fixed and proportional fonts
• Yearning for kerning
• Italic text
• Ligatures
• Dot matrix printouts
• Korean documents
• Light text with broken characters
• Humanist fonts
• Garald fonts
• Real fonts
• Didon fonts
• Mechanic fonts
• Handwritten data
• Arabic documents
• Stylized fonts
• Gothic fonts
• Why is OCR software called omnifont?
• Fonts
• Font anatomy
• Aperture
• Apex
• Arc(h)
• Arm
• Ball terminal
• Bar
• Barb
• Beak (terminal)
• Bowl
• Bracket
• Cat’s ear
• Counter
• Crossbar
• Cross stroke
• Diagonal
• Drop
• Ear
• Eye
• Fillet
• Knot
• Lacrimal terminal
• Leg
• Link
• Loop
• Shoulder
• Spine
• Spur
• Stem
• Stroke
• Tail
• Teardrop
• Terminal
• Vertex
• Point sizes and typestyles
• Ambiguous symbols
• Degraded characters
• Typographic rules
• Underlining
• The best of two worlds
• Do’s and don’ts
• What’s the role of linguistics in the OCR process?
• Languages
• Which languages can OCR software read?
• The history of the alphabets – Latin alphabet
• Latin punctuation
• Greek alphabet
• Cyrilic (Russian) alphabet
• Hebrew alphabet
• Arabic alphabet
• Let’s go East – Chinese alphabet
• Traditional vs. simplified Chinese
• Japanese alphabet
• Kanji
• Hiragana
• Katakana
• Korean alphabet
• Vowels
• Consonants
• Asian punctuation
• Accuracy
• Training the system further – I validate your proofreading
• The accuracy of OCR software – And does that cover the Asian languages?
• How good are your scanning skills?
• With a little help from the friends
• Recognizing snapshots
• Recognizing prescanned images and faxes
• Repurposing Adobe Acrobat PDF Files
• Output
• Going places with the recognized text
• More about Adobe Acrobat PDF output
• Does OCR software format the text?
• Does OCR software recognize tables?
• Converting document collections
• BCR
• Reading business cards
• Pen scanners
• A pen scanner, anyone?
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