International Journal of Computer Science Issues

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Nowadays Newspapers are very common source of information which is easily available to all. It consists of all sorts of news like social news, political news and lots of advertisements. These advertisements/announcements are concentrated on some specific page. This paper proposes a system that can extract contact information like email address, website address and telephone number from newspaper advertisements regarding job, contract, biding and other announcements of company. Proposed system will be able to store old advertisements details for future references. It is very easy for human being to spot the words in an image but it takes lots of computation for a computer to extract and separate these words. This paper explains the necessary steps which are required to recognize optical characters like segmentation, smoothing, image processing and neural network implementation for image recognition.