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Image document processing device, image document processing method, program, and storage medium

US8290269B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 10, 2007
Grant dateOct 16, 2012
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Expiry dateAug 15, 2031

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F16/5846
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A headline-region initial processing section clips a headline-region image in an image document, divides the image into individual character images, and extracts features of the individual character images. Based on the features, a candidate-character-sequence generating section selects N (N is an integer more than 1) character images as candidate characters in the order of degree of matching from a font-feature dictionary for storing features of individual character images, and generates M×N index matrix where M is the number of characters in an extracted character sequence. Based on the index matrix, a document-name generating section generates a meaningful document name according to the image document. An image-document-DB management section manages accumulated image documents using the document name. This provides an image document processing device and an image document processing method each allowing automatically generating and managing the meaningful document name that represents the contents of the image document, without user's operation.

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