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Text line bounding system

  • US 4,558,461 A
  • Filed: 06/17/1983
  • Issued: 12/10/1985
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/17/1983
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In an optical scanning system having an optical scanning head for sequentially scanning horizontally across a document to create pixel oriented data representing text of the document for subsequent comparison searching to determine the alpha-numeric contents of the document, the improvement for automatically compensating for text line skew comprising:

  • (a) means for dividing the data into equal swaths representing vertical columns on the documents;

    (b) means for scanning the data by swath to determine the apparent text line initiations and termination contained therein and for creating a data matrix of initiation/termination pairs by swath;

    said data matrix having at least left and right boundaries;

    (c) means for sequentially searching the data in the data matrix left and right for each pair in a base vector swath, representative of a predetermined range of apparent text line initiations and terminations, to trace the data indicative of apparent text lines to determine a plurality of points apparently on base lines of respective ones of the apparent text lines of the document;

    (d) means for determining the apparent skew angle of the text from the points on the apparent base lines; and

    ;

    (e) means for bounding the data of the apparent text lines for subsequent comparison searching from the found intersection/termination pairs and apparent skew angle determined.

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