Image Processing Application - Help Required

Question

Dear All,

 

I need to develop a Image  Processing Application which can do OCR- recognition of typewritten text and ICR – recognition of handwritten text. It has to be done using C# in Visual studio 2005 environment. Although I am into .Net for sometime I am a newbie as far as Image Processing is concerned.

I require help in the following areas:

 

1. Pre Processing of Images in order to improve Recognition accuracy. There are many processes like deskew, despeckle ,flipping etc. But which are the processes that need to be applied. Does it depend on the quality of the image. Is it required to apply graphics Filters, if so which are those.

 

2. Dividing the Image into Zones i.e OCR and ICR.

 

3. Retrieving the pixels from each element and feeding it into a neural network Library for accurate Recognition.

 

4. Displaying the Recognised text in another Window for Spell checking and correction.

 

There are a lot of good articles in this forum but they give information in bits and pieces and it is very difficult(if not impossible) to put it all together for developing this application.

 

Can someone give me a total picture step wise as mentioned above. If someone,who has developed a similar Application and who has a good knowledge of C# comes forward to help me in developing this Application I shall be ever grateful to the person. In addition I am willing to pay Consultation charges.You may also refer me some good books which deals with this particular subject and also provides code.

 

Sunny74.