Character recognition and communication system

TLDR: In this article, a character recognition and communication system is proposed, where a character appearing on a document is converted into a character image signal at a transmission terminal including, for example, a facsimile scanner and transmitted to the prescribed center, after the character represented by the image signal is identified by a communication network including switching equipment.

Abstract: A character recognition and communication system, wherein a character appearing on a document is converted into a character image signal at a transmission terminal including, for example, a facsimile scanner and transmitted to the prescribed center, after the character represented by the image signal is identified by a communication network including switching equipment; the communication network comprises a plurality of switching units, and the corresponding recognition control units and character recognition units all scattered throughout said network and connected together by a common interconnection circuit; and the plural character recognition units recognize characters by different processes, have a complementary relationship with each other and recognize with high precision various kinds of characters supplied from a plurality of terminals and transmit the recognized characters to the corresponding centers.