C++ Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic: Preface

Commercial Optical Character Recognition

Optical character recognition (OCR) is one of the most successful commercial applications of neural

networks. Caere Corporation brought out its neural network product in 1992, after studying more than

100,000 examples of fax documents. Caere’s AnyFax technology combines neural networks with expert

systems to extract character information from Fax or scanned images. Calera, another OCR vendor, started

using neural networks in 1984 and also benefited from using a very large (more than a million variations of

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alphanumeric characters) training set.