An Automatic Location and Recognition Method for Bank Card Number

The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology is widely used in intelligent identification of bank cards, since it can improve the work efficiency and user experience in mobile payment. Conventional methods have the problems of low recognition rate and location accuracy. Therefore, an automatic location and recognition method for bank card number is proposed. Firstly, novel Connected Text Proposal Network (CTPN) algorithm is improved to locate the bank card number. Then, the Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks (CRNN) algorithm is optimized to identify the card number. Some experimental results show that the method has a high positioning accuracy and recognition rate.