Camera based mixed-lingual card reader for mobile device
ICDAR '05 Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
Streaming Data Movement for Real-Time Image Analysis
Journal of Signal Processing Systems
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With the availability of high-resolution cameras and increased computation power, it becomes possible to implement OCR applications such as business card reader in the mobile device. In this paper we introduced the design and implementation of a business card reader based on build-in camera. In order to deal with the challenge of limited resource in mobile device, we proposed a new method based on multi-resolution analysis of document images. This method improves computation speed and reduces memory requirement of the image-processing step by detecting the text areas in the downscaled image and then analyzing each detected area in the original image. For the OCR engine, we used a two-layer classifier to improve speed. Our experiment gives satisfactory result.