Because a variety of characters are used for one letter in old handwritten documents, it is hard to read those classic documents. To help people read such a document, it is effective to let a machine reprint it. The objective of this research is to build a program that recognizes handwritten old characters. There already exist studies to read ancient documents by character recognition, but the developed tools are widely available. Thus, there is a meaning to develop an application that performs

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... character recognition with a smartphone. We propose a study of developing an application that photocopies classic documents with a smartphone camera and identifies characters from the image then translates them into the modern Japanese language.