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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2018
Applicant:
Intuit Inc., Mountain view, CA (US);
Inventor:
Homa Foroughi, Edmonton, CA;
Assignee:
Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/32 (2006.01); G06T 7/194 (2017.01); G06K 9/34 (2006.01); G06K 9/58 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06K 9/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/346 (2013.01); G06K 9/4642 (2013.01); G06K 9/4652 (2013.01); G06K 9/58 (2013.01); G06K 9/6212 (2013.01); G06T 7/194 (2017.01); G06K 9/00463 (2013.01); G06K 2009/2045 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20132 (2013.01);
Abstract
The invention relates to a method for background removal from documents. The method includes obtaining an image of a document, performing a clustering operation on the image to obtain a plurality of image segments, and performing, for each image segment, a foreground/background classification to determine whether the image segment includes foreground. The method further includes obtaining an augmented image by combining the image segments that include foreground, and obtaining a background-treated image by cropping the image of the document, based on the foreground in the augmented image.