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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2002
Applicant:
Yan Xiong, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventor:
Yan Xiong, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Systems and methods of processing scanned pages are described. In one aspect, the invention features a method of processing a sequence of scanned pages of a document in accordance with which, page number indicators are extracted from scanned pages of the document. A histogram of extracted page number indicators is computed. Scanned page sequence information is determined based at least in part on the computed histogram. A computer program and a system for implementing the scanned page processing method also are described.