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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2006
Ramesh Nagarajan, Pittsford, NY (US);
Michael R. Campanelli, Webster, NY (US);
Isaiah Simmons, Rochester, NY (US);
Ramesh Nagarajan, Pittsford, NY (US);
Michael R. Campanelli, Webster, NY (US);
Isaiah Simmons, Rochester, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
An automated method for extracting highlighted regions in a scanned text documents includes color masking of highlight regions, extracting text from highlighted regions, recognizing the characters in extracted text optically and inserting the recognized characters to new document in order to easily identify highlighted text in scanned images. Using a two-layer multi-mask compression technology configured in a scanned export image path, edges and text regions can be extracted and together with the use of mask coordinates and associated mask colors, all highlighted texts can be easily identified and extracted. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) can then be utilized to appropriate summarization of different extracted highlighted texts.