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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2019
Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited, Guangdong, CN;
Kun Xiong, Shenzhen, CN;
Jian Ye Chen, Shenzhen, CN;
TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LTD, Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
A method for locating text in an image is provided. Binarization processing is performed on the image, to set pixel points corresponding to text in the image to a specified color, and a binary image is obtained. A connected domain of pixels of the specified color in the binary image is detected, to obtain a candidate connected region. Connected domain candidate boundaries corresponding to a text region are extracted from the binary image, and the extracting is based on boundaries of the candidate connected region in the binary image and a text arrangement direction. The text region is obtained in the image by using the connected domain candidate boundaries.