PURPOSE: To enable decision automatically of the format information of document subjected to identification by understanding the construction of the image from the remaining characters and frame after identification of characters existing within the frame from an image of a document to be identified and eliminating all characters except that are to be entered in the specimen document.
CONSTITUTION: Read out construction data and physical data of the specimen document in sequence to the memory 53 and compare with the construction data and physical data of the input document of memory 54; thence determining which specimen document the input document coincides with. Edit the character recognition result and the necessary parts in the construction data and write out in the output device 9. As an example of editing, e.g. if the item title of the frame belonging to the data frame is 'applicant', and the result of recognition is 'YAMADA TARO', 'applicant'='YAMADA TARO', which is written as record 1.
NAKANO YASUAKI
KUNISAKI OSAMU
FUJISAWA HIROMICHI
