ComTech: Computer, Mathematics and Engineering Applications
Vol 7, No 1 (2016): ComTech

Using K-Nearest Neighbor in Optical Character Recognition

Ong, Veronica (Unknown)
Suhartono, Derwin (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Mar 2016

Abstract

The growth in computer vision technology has aided society with various kinds of tasks. One of these tasks is the ability of recognizing text contained in an image, or usually referred to as Optical Character Recognition (OCR). There are many kinds of algorithms that can be implemented into an OCR. The K-Nearest Neighbor is one such algorithm. This research aims to find out the process behind the OCR mechanism by using K-Nearest Neighbor algorithm; one of the most influential machine learning algorithms. It also aims to find out how precise the algorithm is in an OCR program. To do that, a simple OCR program to classify alphabets of capital letters is made to produce and compare real results. The result of this research yielded a maximum of 76.9% accuracy with 200 training samples per alphabet. A set of reasons are also given as to why the program is able to reach said level of accuracy.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

comtech

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Engineering Mathematics

Description

The journal invites professionals in the world of education, research, and entrepreneurship to participate in disseminating ideas, concepts, new theories, or science development in the field of Information Systems, Architecture, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Food ...