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Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018

Filed:

Jan. 27, 2017
Applicant:

Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);

Inventors:

Sainarayanan Gopalakrishnan, Chennai, IN;

Rajasekar Kanagasabai, Chennai, IN;

Sudhagar Subbaian, Coimbatore, IN;

Assignee:

XEROX CORPORATION, Norwalk, CT (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/24 (2006.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G06K 9/72 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/248 (2013.01); G06F 17/2755 (2013.01); G06K 9/72 (2013.01); G06K 2209/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure discloses methods and systems for creating a multi-layered Optical Character Recognition (OCR) document, the multi-layered OCR document facilitates selection of the desired text from the multi-layered OCR document. The method includes receiving a scanned image corresponding to a document, the document includes text information. A binary image is generated from the scanned image. Then, a morphological dilation operation is performed to create one or more text groups, using a horizontal structuring element and a vertical structuring element. Thereafter, OCR operation is applied on each text group to generate a corresponding OCR layer. The one or more OCR layers are then combined while creating a multi-layered OCR document. Finally, the combined OCR layers are superimposed as invisible text layers over the scanned image to create the multi-layered OCR document.


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