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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2020
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Zhong Fang Yuan, Xi'an, CN;
Guang Qing Zhong, Beijing, CN;
Tong Liu, Xi'an, CN;
De Shuo Kong, Beijing, CN;
Yi Ming Wang, Xi'an, CN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An approach for extracting non-textual data from an electronic document is disclosed. The approach includes receiving a request to extract a file and converting the file into pixels. The approach creates a pixel map of the converted file and determines one or more density clusters of the pixel map based on image clustering method. Furthermore, the approach determines one or more coordinates of the one or more density clusters and determines one or more candidate information regions based on the one or more coordinates, density of the one or more density clusters. Finally, the approach extracts one or more textual data based on the one or more candidate information regions and outputs the extracted one or more textual data.