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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2010
Jose Eduardo Bastos Dos Santos, Shawnee, KS (US);
Brian G. Anderson, Overland Park, KS (US);
Scott T. R. Coons, Lawrence, KS (US);
David E. Kelley, Olathe, KS (US);
Humayun H. Khan, Overland Park, KS (US);
Jess B. Sturgeon, Lawrence, KS (US);
Richard L. Taylor, Olathe, KS (US);
Jose Eduardo Bastos dos Santos, Shawnee, KS (US);
Brian G. Anderson, Overland Park, KS (US);
Scott T. R. Coons, Lawrence, KS (US);
David E. Kelley, Olathe, KS (US);
Humayun H. Khan, Overland Park, KS (US);
Jess B. Sturgeon, Lawrence, KS (US);
Richard L. Taylor, Olathe, KS (US);
Lexmark International, Inc., Kentucky, unknown;
Abstract
Systems and methods analyze the physical structure of text rows in a document image, including the positions of one or more alignments of one or more character blocks in one or more text rows of the document image. The systems and methods determine one or more groups of text rows that are placed into a class based on the structures of the text rows, such as the positions of the one or more alignments of the one or more character blocks in each text row.