Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Developers

Hope Fetrow and Sumit Barua

Purpose

Final Project for CS 5820 or Artificial Intelligence

Objective

To inform the functionality of OCR process and demonstrate the practical 	
functionality using self-made images. 

Description

The OCR or Optical Character Recognition is a process by which we can 
extract the written or printed texts in an image to actual text or string using 
A.I. document parsing method. For our class project, we will present the basic functionality of OCR process and implement a practical 
demonstration or interface of OCR technology using modern web development techniques. 

Features

1. An interface for general text extraction and .txt/.doc conversion
2. An automated form filling interface from Driving License/I.D.
3. An interface for check information retrieval.