CHARACTER RECOGNIZING METHOD

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the hit ratio of character recognition by correcting the position-shifting of a character entering a camera visual field by means of a card fixing error, a character string forming error and a pitch error. SOLUTION: Even the edge of a card 2 vertical to the correcting direction of the position shifting of the character is read by a camera by fixing the card 2 so as to enter the camera visual field 1 so that the edge position within the camera visual field 1 is specified. Then, after correcting the position-shifting of the character through the use of this edge position, the character is recognized. For example, a card shifting quantity D1 from the fixed position of the normal card 2 within the camera visual field 1 is obtained as a card fixing error by the specified edge position to correct the position-shifting is corrected by this error by the unit of the character string In addition, the position of the one-side terminal character of a character string is specified and the character string forming error D2 of the whole character string on the card 2 and the positions of both terminal characters are specified to correct the error of a character pitch.