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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2019
Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Terrence J. Torres, Mountain View, CA (US);
Homa Foroughi, Edmonton, CA;
Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Arbitrary image data may be transformed into data suitable for optical character recognition (OCR) processing. A processor may generate a plurality of intermediate feature layers of an image using convolutional neural network (CNN) processing. For each intermediate feature layer, the processor may generate at least one text proposal using a region proposal network (RPN). The at least one text proposal may comprise a portion of the intermediate feature layer that is predicted to contain text. The processor may merge the text proposals with one another to form a patch of the image that is predicted to contain text. The processor may determine outer coordinates of the patch. The outer coordinates may comprise at least leftmost, rightmost, topmost, and bottommost coordinates. The processor may generate a quadrilateral of the image that is a smallest quadrilateral including the leftmost, rightmost, topmost, and bottommost coordinates.