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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1997
John E Warnock, Los Altos, CA (US);
Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus for filtering non-text information from a page containing text, the text being associated with a color. The page is represented as an image in a first color space. The image is converted to a second color space that has a color channel closely associated with the text color. The color channel is selected and gray values are derived that correspond to text color channel values associated with cells in the image. Cells in the image having gray values of a predefined relationship with respect to predetermined threshold values are marked as text cells, and the remaining cells are identified as non-text cells. The gray values of the text and non-text cells are adjusted to increase the contrast between text and non-text information. The single-color space image may then be printed by a monochrome printer.