Character segmentation by slices
US7471826B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 31, 2008 |
| Grant date | Dec 30, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 31, 2028 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06V30/10
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method for segmentation of characters in text that segments text into lines, words and slices and determines at least one of fixed pitch and proportional pitch prior to segmentation. The method computes histograms of the lines and defines widths of lobes of the histograms of the lines as the character pitches. In addition, the method further analyzes the character pitches; segments lines into words; computes histograms of the words and aggregating the histograms of the words at predetermined points. Moreover, the method segments the words; slicing them words into an upper slice and lower slice and further segments the upper slice and the lower slice. The results are then combined to provide for both coarse and fine segmentation that enhance the performance of character OCR for documents scanned as at least one of gray-scale images and color images.
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