intelligent character recognition (OCR) (ICR)
Intelligent Character Recognition(ICR) is a further development of Optical Character Recognition( OCR) and Handprint Character Recognition ( HCR).
With intelligent character recognition, handwritten text and numbers can be converted into machine-readable characters and transformed into documents.
The intelligence of ICR character recognition is demonstrated by the correction of incorrectly captured characters. The quality of the results is improved by semantic correlations, by linguistic and statistical procedures, by comparison with stored reference patterns and by checking against dictionaries. This leads in the result correction to the fact that an incorrectly interpreted character is corrected after the semantic classification or after the comparison with the dictionaries. For example, if the ICR software interprets the "u" in the word "curse" as "a", which would lead to the word "flat", then the letter "a" is converted to "u" via the semantic context and the incorrect text recognition is thus corrected.