a document an on line off line hand written character recognition device or a receiver which receives information from another system e g a receiver which receives results of recognition performed by a character recognition system the arrangement may be such that information generated through a different processing performed in the same system is used as the input information it is also possible to arrange such that two or more types of input unit 1 mentioned above are prepared for selective use the cpu 2 performs computation and logical judgment necessary for various kinds of processing and controls the system components which are connected to the bus 6 the output unit 3 serves as means for outputting data obtained through an analytical unit the output unit 3 may comprise for example a voice synthesizer which synthesizes voice information from character information and outputs the synthetic voice information a display device such as a crt or a liquid crystal display device a printer for printing and outputting characters on a document or a transmission device which transmits the information to another device or system such as a data base the arrangement may be such that information output from the output unit 3 is used as information to be.