Method and apparatus for locating and identifying fields within

Details Method and apparatus for locating and identifying fields within Method and apparatus for locating and identifying fields within

1995-04-11

1998-12-22

Boudreau, Leo H.

Image analysis

Image segmentation

382174, 382175, 382176, 382180, 382138, G06K 900, G06K 934

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058526765

ABSTRACT:
A document to be processed is scanned into a machine readable image. The image is segmented into a plurality of fields. Predetermined characteristics are measured for each field and the set of characteristics is correlated with a predetermined set of characteristics derived from a reference image. The fields with the highest degree of correlation to the characteristics from the reference document are selected for further processing, e.g., optical character recognition.

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