Optical character recognition (OCR) using partial least square (PLS) based feature reduction: an application to artificial intelligence for biometric identification

PurposeIn artificial intelligence, the optical character recognition (OCR) is an active research area based on famous applications such as automation and transformation of printed documents into machine-readable text document. The major purpose of OCR in academia and banks is to achieve a significant performance to save storage space.Design/methodology/approachA novel technique is proposed for automated OCR based on multi-properties features fusion and selection. The features are fused using serially formulation and output passed to partial least square (PLS) based selection method. The selection is done based on the entropy fitness function. The final features are classified by an ensemble classifier.FindingsThe presented method was extensively tested on two datasets such as the authors proposed and Chars74k benchmark and achieved an accuracy of 91.2 and 99.9%. Comparing the results with existing techniques, it is found that the proposed method gives improved performance.Originality/valueThe technique presented in this work will help for license plate recognition and text conversion from a printed document to machine-readable.

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