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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 1996
Filed:
May. 09, 1994
M Margaret Withgott, Los Altos, CA (US);
Steven C Bagley, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Dan S Bloomberg, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Per-Kristian Halvorsen, Los Altos, CA (US);
Daniel P Huttenlocher, Ithaca, NY (US);
Todd A Cass, Cambridge, MA (US);
Ronald M Kaplan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ramana R Rao, San Francisco, CA (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for excerpting and summarizing an undecoded document image, without first converting the document image to optical character codes such as ASCII text, identifies significant words, phrases and graphics in the document image using automatic or interactive morphological image recognition techniques, document summaries or indices are produced based on the identified significant portions of the document image. The disclosed method is particularly adept for improvement of reading machines for the blind.