Mobile Application for Learning Japanese Syllabaries

Abstract

This bachelor thesis summarizes the process of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and divide it to its particular parts together with the overview and descriptions of the methods used to solve the particular problem of the whole process. Then the Windows Phone 8 platform is discussed and summarized, mainly the options and necessary tools a developer need to create a Windows Phone Application. The theoretical information is used in the second part of this thesis, where the algorithm for character recognition using artificial neural networks is implemented in the application for learning Japanese Syllabaries running on the platform with Windows Phone 8 operating system. The application process user-written character, one at a time on the screen and recognize, what character matches the given input. The thesis includes also description of the application together with its analysis, design and testing results.