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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2014
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Sudhagar Subbaian, Tamilnadu, IN;
Sainarayanan Gopalakrishnan, Chennai, IN;
Xing Li, Webster, NY (US);
Clara Cuciurean-Zapan, Fairport, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A method and system for segmenting text from non-text portions of a digital image using the size, solidity, and run length characteristics of connected components within the image data. For a connected component comprising a rectangular group of pixels enclosing a set of connected pixels having the same binary state, the size characteristic may be based on a ratio of height to width of the connected component and the total number of pixels within the connected component, the solidity characteristic may be based on a ratio of pixels within the connected component to a total number of pixels within a convex hull of the set of connected pixels, and the run length characteristic may be based on a number of transitions within the connected component.