OCR and Automatic Capitalization of OCR Technology

Sabih Shaker, Atheel

	OCR and Automatic Capitalization of OCR Technology
Baghdad College of Economic sciences University
Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 35, 2018, Pages 405-417
Author
Atheel Sabih Shaker
Abstract
As you read these words on your computer screen, your eyes and brain are carrying out optical character recognition without you even noticing! Your eyes are recognizing the patterns of light and dark that make up the characters (letters, numbers, and things like punctuation marks) printed on the screen and your brain is using those to figure out what I'm trying to say (sometimes by reading individual characters but mostly by scanning entire words and whole groups of words at once). Computers can do this too, but it's really hard work for them. The first problem is that a computer has no eyes, so if you want it to read something like the page of an old book, you have to present it with an image of that page generated with an optical scanner or a digital camera. The page you create this way is a graphic file (often in the form of a JPG) and, as far as a computer's concerned, there's no difference between it and a photograph of the Taj Mahal or any other graphic: it's a completely meaningless pattern of pixels (the colored dots or squares that make up any computer graphic image). In other words, the computer has a picture of the page rather than the text itself-it can't read the words on the page like we can, just like that. OCR is the process of turning a picture of text into text itself-in other words, producing something like a TXT or DOC file from a scanned JPG of a printed or handwritten page

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