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Method and system for accurately detecting, extracting and representing redacted text blocks in a document

  • US 10,733,434 B2
  • Filed: 09/24/2018
  • Issued: 08/04/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2018
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for automatically detecting redaction blocks in a document comprising:

  • receiving, by an information handling system comprising a processor and a memory, the document as an image file;

    analyzing, by the information handling system, the document to identify any redaction block areas in the document;

    detecting, by the information handling system, location information for each redaction block area identified in the document;

    applying, by the information handling system, optical character recognition to the document to detect text fragments in the document;

    detecting, by the information handling system, location information for each text fragment identified in the document; and

    mapping, by the information handling system, each redaction block area to any associated text fragments in the document based on the location information for each redaction block area and text fragment in the document,wherein the redaction block areas are redacted block areas.

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