APPARATUS FOR TRANSLATING ORACLE-BONE SCRIPTURE INTO A MORE FORMAL LANGUAGE

An apparatus for translating oracle-bone scripture style characters into formal style characters, and for translating formal style characters into oracle-bone scripture style characters includes a scanner for scanning printed characters and for providing a digital representation of the thus scanned printer characters. The printed characters are one of either the oracle-bone scripture style characters or the formal style characters. An oracle-bone scripture style and formal style character stroke feature analysis and learning unit is provided for extracting a feature of each scanned printed character, and for storing into an oracle-bone scripture style and formal style feature space storage device the thus extracted features of each scanned printed character according to a learning and analysis process. An oracle-bone scripture style and formal style character translation subsystem is provided for translating the scanned printed characters in accordance with the extracted features stored in the oracle-bone scripture style and formal style feature space storage device. A character output generator is provided having incorporated therein a character compressor, the character output generator for generating output characters and said character compressor for reducing a required memory space for storage of said characters. A processor is provided for controlling the scanner, the oracle-bone scripture style and formal style character stroke feature analysis and learning subsystem, the oracle-bone scripture style and formal style feature space storage device, the oracle-bone scripture style and formal style character translation subsystem, and the character compressor.