Recognition of Myanmar Lottery Ticket Number

One of the most popular research in the fields of computer vision is optical character recognition (OCR).OCR is the mechanical or electronic conversion of typed, handwritten or printed text images into editable form; notepad, excel, word. Methods widely used for OCR of Asian languages are mainly involved pattern matching techniques. In this paper we are applying OCR techniques to Myanmar lottery ticket, and trying to extract each alphanumeric present in the lottery ticket number region. The recognition operations consist of following: image acquisition, pre-processing, interest region extraction, element segmentation, and recognition. Myanmar lottery ticket number recognition system is developed by computing the correlation coefficient to compare the similarity for alphanumeric patterns via image processing techniques with MATLAB programing language. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed system the numbers of lottery ticket images having various alphabets and numerals are experimented. Experimental results show that the system achieves with high degree of recognition accuracy.