Optical Character Recognition Using Back Propagation Neural Network

Authors

  • Shyla Afroge Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology, Rajshahi-6204, Bangladesh
  • Md. Abu Raihan Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology, Rajshahi-6204, Bangladesh
  • Firoz Mahmud Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology, Rajshahi-6204, Bangladesh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37591/joipprp.v3i2.709

Keywords:

optical character recognition (OCR), character recognition, BPN network, English alphanumeric characters, image acquisition

Abstract

This paper represents an Artificial Neural Network (ANN)-based approach for the recognition of English characters using feed-forward neural network. Noise has been considered as one of the major issues that degrades the performance of character recognition system. Our feed forward network has one input, one hidden, and one output layer. The entire recognition system is divided into two sections, namely training and recognition section. Both the sections include image acquisition, preprocessing and feature extraction. Training and recognition section also include training of the classifier and simulation of the classifier, respectively. Preprocessing involves digitization, noise removal, binarization, line segmentation and character extraction. After character extraction, the extracted character matrix is normalized into 12x8 matrix. Then features are extracted from the normalized image matrix which is fed to the network. The network consists of 96 input neurons and 62 output neurons. We train our network by proposed training algorithm in a supervised manner and establish the network. Eventually, we have tested our trained network with more than 10 samples per character and gives 99% accuracy for numeric digits (0~9), 97% accuracy for capital letters (A~Z), 96% accuracy for small letters (a~z) and 93% accuracy for alphanumeric characters by considering inter-class similarity measurement.

Cite this Article
Afroge S, Raihan MA, Mahmud F. Optical Character Recognition Using Back Propagation Neural Network. Journal of Image Processing & Pattern Recognition Progress. 2016; 3(2): 11–18p.

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Published

2016-07-19

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2016)

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Research Articles

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