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CHARACTER IMAGE EXTRACTING APPARATUS AND CHARACTER IMAGE EXTRACTING METHOD

  • US 20090028435A1
  • Filed: 12/21/2007
  • Published: 01/29/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A character image extracting method comprising:

  • an extracting step for obtaining a linked component composed of a plurality of mutually linking pixels from a character string region composed of a plurality of characters and extracting section elements from the character string region, the section elements each being surrounded by a circumscribing figure circumscribing to the linked component;

    an altering step for altering the section elements extracted in the extracting step, a new section element being formed by combining section elements at least having a mutually overlapping part among the section elements extracted in the extracting step, while remaining section elements thereof being set as new section elements without being altered; and

    a selecting step for selecting, from among the section elements altered in the altering step, section elements having a size greater than a predetermined reference size.

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