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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2012
Hervé Déjean, Grenoble, FR;
Hervé Déjean, Grenoble, FR;
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A system and method for identifying regular geometric structures in a document page are disclosed. In the method, for a document page for which a set of page elements have been identified, the method includes identifying, where present, geometric relations among a subset of the page elements, from a predefined set of geometric relations, and a geometric structure comprising regular rows and regular columns, based on the identified geometric relations. Constraints of a definition of a regular geometric structure are applied to the identified geometric structure and, where the subset of page elements includes regular rows and regular columns forming a geometric structure which meets the constraints of the definition of a regular geometric structure, the subset of the page elements is identified as forming a regular geometric structure and may be labeled or tested to determine if it can be expanded by adding one or more rows or columns.