Title
The effects of OCR error on the extraction of private information
Abstract
OCR error has been shown not to affect the average accuracy of text retrieval or text categorization.Recent studies however have indicated that information extraction is significantly degraded by OCR error. We experimented with information extraction software on two collections, one with OCR-ed documents and another with manually-corrected versions of the former. We discovered a significant reduction in accuracy on the OCR text versus the corrected text. The majority of errors were attributable to zoning problems rather than OCR classification errors.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/11669487_31
Document Analysis Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
information extraction software,text retrieval,corrected text,ocr text,average accuracy,ocr-ed document,ocr classification error,text categorization,private information,ocr error,information extraction
Character recognition,Computer science,Document Structure Description,Optical character recognition,Image processing,Speech recognition,Software,Information extraction,Private information retrieval,Text retrieval
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
3872
0302-9743
3-540-32140-3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.91
8
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kazem Taghva135043.51
Russell Beckley2394.38
jeffrey coombs3897.73