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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2010
Aleksandar Uzelac, Seattle, WA (US);
Bodin Dresevic, Bellevue, WA (US);
Sasa Galic, Seattle, WA (US);
Bogdan Radakovic, Redmond, WA (US);
Aleksandar Uzelac, Seattle, WA (US);
Bodin Dresevic, Bellevue, WA (US);
Sasa Galic, Seattle, WA (US);
Bogdan Radakovic, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Line segmentation in an OCR process is performed to detect the positions of words within an input textual line image by extracting features from the input to locate breaks and then classifying the breaks into one of two break classes which include inter-word breaks and inter-character breaks. An output including the bounding boxes of the detected words and a probability that a given break belongs to the identified class can then be provided to downstream OCR or other components for post-processing. Advantageously, by reducing line segmentation to the extraction of features, including the position of each break and the number of break features, and break classification, the task of line segmentation is made less complex but with no loss of generality.