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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 1996
Filed:
May. 23, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Theo Pavlidis, Setauket, NY (US);
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382317 ;
Abstract
Page segmentation which scans a document to detect black and white run lengths along scanlines, finds grey intervals each defined as being between two long white or mostly white intervals of a scanline or between an end of the scanline and a long (mostly) white interval, links adjacent grey intervals into grey areas, and identifies such grey areas as text or halftone, prior to a larger process such as character recognition.
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Pavlidis, Theo. (1996). Segmenting a page of a document into areas which are text and areas (U.S. Patent No. 5566255). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/5566255
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