CHARACTER RECOGNIZING DEVICE

PURPOSE:To increase the recognition speed for recognition of characters written in a drawing or a sentence and to automatically register characters so as to prevent mis-recognition of characters of the same type due to forgetting of registration. CONSTITUTION:A character recognition processing part is divided into two stages. A character recognition processing part in the first stage matches one- character components of character contour data with the type of a standard dictionary 8. If the recognition result does not meet a prescribed reference, a character recognition processing part 7 in the second stage matches the recognition result of the preceding stage with both of dictionaries 8 and 9. If the type of the character to be recognized is different from those of the standard dictionary 8 and the user dictionary 9, a recognition result editing processing part 11 performs interactive correction, and a character register part 12 registers the pertinent character in the user dictionary 9.