Optical Character Recognition Using MATLAB

J.Sashank Varma#1, G.V.N.S.Varma*2, K.Vikranth Reddy#3

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Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, Vignan’s Institute of Information
Technology

Abstract—Optical character recognition (OCR) is used to convert the raw images into ASCII or other digital text, which reduces the file size
and allows the text to be reformatted, searched, or processed by other applications. Nowadays OCR is used in many advanced fields like
automatic number plate recognition, robotic vision, digitalization of books, computerize a record-keeping system in an office. Automatic
number plate recognition is used by various police forces and as a method of electronic toll collection and cataloging the movements of
traffic or individuals . It helps robotics by giving a way for the robot to get information from real world. The books that are digitalized can
be searched for any term which helps people find books they required. In this paper we explain about how the OCR works using our
algorithm in matlab. We will also explain our experimental results in this paper.