System and method for accurately recognizing text font in a document processing system
US6337924B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 26, 1999 |
| Grant date | Jan 8, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 26, 2019 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06V30/245
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method for accurately recognizing the font of text in an image generates a bitmap of the text character represented by a font in the image and compares that bitmap to the bitmaps of characters stored in a memory. Statistics are gathered on the best matching fonts over the characters in a quantity sufficient to ascertain the most commonly occurring font. The most commonly occurring font is then selected from all fonts in the memory to represent the original image.
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