System and method of improving the legibility and applicability of document pictures using form based image enhancement
First Claim
1. A method for imaging a document, and using a reference document to place pieces of the document in their correct relative position and resize such pieces in order to generate a single unified image, the method comprising:
- electronically capturing a document with one or multiple images using an imaging device;
performing pre-processing of said images to optimize the results of subsequent image recognition, enhancement, and decoding;
comparing said images against a database of reference documents to determine the most closely fitting reference document; and
applying knowledge from said closely fitting reference document to adjust geometrically orientation, shape, and size of said electronically captured images so that said images correspond as closely as possibly to said reference document.
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Abstract
A system and method for imaging a document, and using a reference document to place pieces of the document in their correct relative position and resize such pieces in order to generate a single unified image, including the electronic capturing a document with one or multiple images using an imaging device, the performing of pre-processing of said images to optimize the results of subsequent image recognition, enhancement, and decoding, the comparing of said images against a database of reference documents to determine the most closely fitting reference document, and the applying of knowledge from said closely fitting reference document to adjust geometrically the orientation, shape, and size of said electronically captured images so that said images correspond as closely as possibly to said reference document.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for imaging a document, and using a reference document to place pieces of the document in their correct relative position and resize such pieces in order to generate a single unified image, the method comprising:
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electronically capturing a document with one or multiple images using an imaging device;
performing pre-processing of said images to optimize the results of subsequent image recognition, enhancement, and decoding;
comparing said images against a database of reference documents to determine the most closely fitting reference document; and
applying knowledge from said closely fitting reference document to adjust geometrically orientation, shape, and size of said electronically captured images so that said images correspond as closely as possibly to said reference document. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A system for imaging a document, and using a reference document to place pieces of the document in their correct relative position and resize such pieces in order to generate a single unified image, the system comprising:
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at least one document to be electronically captured;
a portable imaging device for electronically capturing said document with at least one image;
a network for pre-processing said at least one image to optimize the results of subsequent image recognition, enhancement, and decoding;
a database comprising reference documents for comparing against said at least one pre-processed image; and
at least one server for receiving said at least one pre-processed image from the network, storing said at least one image, performing final processing, comparing said at least one image against at least one reference document, and routing the processed images to one or more recipients. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19)
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20. A computer program product stored on a computer readable medium for causing a computer medium to perform a method comprising:
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electronically capturing a document with at least one image using an imaging device;
performing pre-processing of said at least one image to optimize results of subsequent image recognition, enhancement, and decoding;
comparing said at least one image against reference documents stored in a database, to determine most closely fitting reference document;
applying knowledge from said closely fitting reference document to adjust geometrically orientation, shape, and size of said electronically captured images so that said at least one image corresponds as closely as possibly to said reference document.
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