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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2001
Toshifumi Yamaai, Ohta-ku, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The character recognition apparatus incorporates a table recognition section. This table recognition section extracts circumscribing rectangles from connected components of black pixels on a whole surface of the image as an area where read image data are desired to be processed, sorts rectangles of character candidates and rectangles of frame candidates from the extracted circumscribing rectangles, fills the rectangles sorted as the character candidates with white pixels, recognizes and extracts frames as ruled lines from the rectangles which remain as the frame candidates.
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