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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2013
Applicant:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/18 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/18 (2013.01); G06K 9/00463 (2013.01); G06K 9/3216 (2013.01); G06K 2209/01 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and system is provided for identifying a page layout of an image that includes textual regions. The textual regions are to undergo optical character recognition (OCR). The system includes an input component that receives an input image that includes words around which bounding boxes have been formed and a text identifying component that groups the words into a plurality of text regions. A reading line component groups words within each of the text regions into reading lines. A text region sorting component that sorts the text regions in accordance with their reading order.