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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2020
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Makoto Enomoto, Inagi, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
According to a form of the present disclosure, character strings are obtained from a document image by performing an optical character recognition process on the document image, whether each of the obtained character strings is an item name or an item value is evaluated, character strings determined to be the item names and continuously present in a horizontal or vertical direction are grouped as one item name group, a search region is set by combining the one item name group and a region where one or more character strings each determined to be the item value and adjacent to the item name group are continuously present, and the item value is extracted based on the relationship between the item name and the item value for each of the search regions.