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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2021
Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.s.a., Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Tim Prebble, Longmont, CO (US);
Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for extracting text from an input image and generating a document includes: generating an edges mask from the input image; generating an edges image that is derived from the edges mask; identifying, within the edges mask, one or more probable text areas; extracting a first set of text characters by performing a first optical character recognition (OCR) operation on each of one or more probable text portions, of the derived edges image, corresponding to each of the probable text areas; generating a modified image by erasing, from the input image, image characters corresponding to the first set of text characters extracted by the first OCR operation; and generating a document by overlaying the extracted first set of text characters on the modified image.