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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2012
Applicants:
Adarsh Natarajan, Kerala, IN;
Viswanath Sankaranarayanan, Chennai, IN;
Sairam Reddi, Chennai, IN;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/18 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30256 (2013.01); G06K 9/00221 (2013.01); G06K 9/18 (2013.01); G06K 9/183 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for detecting and correcting skew in scanned vertical text includes identifying an image of vertically oriented characters, and identifying a plurality of vertical lines corresponding to character positions of the vertically oriented characters in the image. The method further includes generating an average slope of a subset of the plurality of lines, and causing the image to be deskewed based on the average slope.