An Overview of the WeOCR System and a Survey of its Use

The collaboration of the network and optical character recognition (OCR) is expected to be useful for extending the applications of OCR, and it has a potential to open up new vistas in future services using OCR. We presented the basic ideas of the synergetic OCR system in 2004, and developed a platform called WeOCR to realize the web-based OCR services. The number of accesses has been increasing gradually since the interoperable, synergetic web-based OCR system was put into service in 2005. In this paper, we describe an overview of the current WeOCR system and provide a survey of its use. The unique survey may convey some useful hints for future development of network-oriented OCRs, not limited to the WeOCR, and potential applications of such systems.

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