OCR is short for Optical Character Recognition, generally called as character recognition. Through such optical device as scanner, digital camera etc. it obtains character image information, uses all kinds of formats of recognition method to analyze character pattern features, figures out standard code of a character and stores it in text file according to general format. In this regard, OCR actually is to let computer recognize characters and realize character automatic input. It is indeed a quick, labor-saving and high-efficient character input method.

TH-OCR began researched and developed by TsingHua University ever since 1985. TH is short for TsingHua and TH-OCR stands for the OCR software developed by WINTONE Info Technology Ltd., under the support of the National 863 Project. It has been a scientific research achievement from the very beginning 1.0 version to the present upgraded 9.0 version. It truly and exclusively recognizes Chinese-English characters in the same paragraph. For the first time it breaks the limit that OCR products can only deal with Chinese characters or English characters alone. Also, it enhances the function of oriental characters, simplified and Traditional Chinese characters, Japanese and Korean. The recognition level of Japanese, Korean and Chinese-English documents is even higher than that of Japanese and Korean recognition software developed by their own countries. It has great and important impact home and abroad as excellent software credited by China Software Industry Association in the last three successive years. TH-OCR becomes a landmark to the Chinese Character Input Technology. As a pioneer of domestic OCR Industry, TH-OCR 9.0 version has been applied to various fields including electronic administration, electronic publication, newspaper publishing, banking, postal service, tax administration and library management.

Input of all motions in the current People’s Congress adopted WINTONE TH-OCR 9.0, the leading product in the worldwide character recognition software industry, which independently owns the Intellectual Property Right. It was highly praised by staff in People’s Congress by its correct recognition speed. And the success of TH-OCR technique applied in People’s Congress proves that China has the ability to develop and possess our own excellent technology.

Outstanding Features of TH-OCR:
◇ It has the highest rate of recognition correctness of Chinese-English documents and it is in the world’s leading position;
◇ It can recognize black-and-white, grey and colored images as well as various image formats;
◇ It is the first invention to restore the recognition result to electronic text page. What you see is what you get.
◇ It is the first invention to recognize Japanese, Korean, Japanese-English and Korean-English, the rate of which is above 98%.

Six advantages of TH-OCR

1. It is the only character recognition system that can recognize more than twenty thousand Chinese characters, the most in China.

2. It recognizes Chinese-English characters, Japanese-English characters and Korean-English characters at the same time.

3. It has the highest rate of Chinese character recognition. TH-OCR has been subjected to strict tests given by intelligent experts in the ‘863’ Project, and the Test Center of China Software. Its recognition correctness rate exceeds 99.5%, representing the highest level of current printing character recognition.

4. It supports various surrounding interfaces. TH-OCR supports Windows system as well as internal codes such as GB、BIGS、GBK、JIS、SHIFT-JIS and KSC etc. It applies to Windows NT and WINDOWS 98/2000/XP, fit for every region in the world. TH-OCR has self-study function, which greatly enlarges the character database by inputting whatever strange characters.

5. It has been credited as ‘possessing the world’s leading technique’ by an appraisal committee made up of China Academy of Science and China Academy of Engineering.

Wide Social Recognition

1. It has been providing famous scanner manufacturer such as HP、 UNISCAN、 EPSON、 CANON、 LENOVO etc., with TH-OCR common version attached to their products.

2. MICROSOFT binds TH-OCR to WIN XP as oriental character recognition software.

3. MOTOROLA shares part of TH-OCR technique application right.

4. INTEL determines TH-OCR as the latest MMX technique support program.

5. According to the result of Computer World Magazine’s market research, WINTONE TH-OCR shares 65% of the market.

6. A survey organized by CIWLAB shows that TH-OCR has excellent performance, which is a definitely reliable system. To other OCR brands, it has a comment that they are worth choosing.