A character recognition method that is robust under an unknown illumination condition is provided. An apparatus for realizing such robust character recognition includes plural different binarization, means for synthesizing character sub-image candidates that have been obtained from the binarization units, and means for analyzing character sub-image candidates and for recognizing an image as a character string consisting of character sub-image candidates.

 
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