Methods used for OCR

Although OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is a topic which has been a subject of research since the second half of the 19th century, it has recieved a significant attention in the field of computer vision and object detection recently. This thesis presents history of OCR and briefly describes techniques which have been used over the course of time for character recognition. Main focus lies in the current text recognition methods introduced by soft computing. Since the major portion of the field is covered by neural networks, various architectures will be presented. Eventually a software for alphanumeric characters recognition will be implemented using a convolutional neural network