Apparatus, and an accompanying method, for use in an optical character recognition (OCR) system (5) for locating, e.g., center positions ("hearts") of all desired characters within a field (310; 510) of characters such that the desired characters can be subsequently recognized using an appropriate classification...http://www.google.ca/patents/US5542006?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5542006 - Neural network based character position detector for use in optical character recognition
