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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2001
Yoko Fujiwara, Tokyo, JP;
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An image processing method or device invented to reduce the ratio of erroneously recognized non-character elements in optical character recognition (OCR) regarding a color document that includes character images and other types of images, wherein the extracted character image data is checked to determine whether a color change exists in each character image, and wherein if no color change exists, the character image data is converted into character code data, but where a color change does exist, the character image data is not converted into character code data.
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