Systems and methods for authenticating documents
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1. A method for creating a notarized document from a document, comprising:
- acquiring image data of the document;
determining connected components within the acquired image data;
grouping the connected components into exemplars;
identifying location information of at least one occurrence of an exemplar for each of the exemplars;
storing the location information in an exemplar table;
determining a block of the connected components;
identifying the position of an occurrence of at least one of the exemplars within the block;
storing the position in a block table;
generating a document data file based on the image data, the document data file comprising the exemplar table and the block table; and
appending the document data file to the document to form a notarized document capable of being authenticated.
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Abstract
A method and device for creating a notarized document from a document, comprising acquiring image data of the document; generating a document data file based on the image data, the document data file comprising a exemplar table and a block table; and appending the document data file to the document.
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16 Claims
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1. A method for creating a notarized document from a document, comprising:
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acquiring image data of the document; determining connected components within the acquired image data; grouping the connected components into exemplars; identifying location information of at least one occurrence of an exemplar for each of the exemplars; storing the location information in an exemplar table; determining a block of the connected components; identifying the position of an occurrence of at least one of the exemplars within the block; storing the position in a block table; generating a document data file based on the image data, the document data file comprising the exemplar table and the block table; and appending the document data file to the document to form a notarized document capable of being authenticated. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. An apparatus that creates a notarized document from a document, comprising:
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a controller; a memory that stores image data of the document; a connected components determining circuit that determines connected components based on the image data; a connected components grouping circuit that groups the connected components into a plurality of groups and generates an exemplar for each of the groups; an exemplar table generation circuit that generates an exemplar table by identifying positions of an occurrence for each of the exemplars; a block table generation circuit that generates a block table by identifying blocks of the connected components and determining the position of each occurrence for each of the exemplars in each of the blocks; a fiducial point generation circuit that generates a fiducial point for each of the exemplars and adds the fiducial point for each of the exemplars to the exemplar table; and a data appending circuit that appends the exemplar table and the block table to the document to create a notarized document capable of being authenticated, wherein the controller operates the connected components determining circuit, the connected components grouping circuit, the exemplar table generation circuit, the block table generation circuit, the fiducial point generation circuit and the data appending circuit. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. An apparatus that verifies the authenticity of a notarized document, comprising:
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a controller; a memory that stores image data of the notarized document that includes a document data file containing an exemplar table and a block table; a data reading circuit that reads the document data file and outputs to the memory the exemplar table and the block table of the document data file; a decompression circuit that constructs a verifying document image using the exemplar table and the block table; and a comparing circuit that compares the verifying document image to the image data of the notarized document and determines that the notarized document is not genuine if there are discrepancies between the verifying document image and the image data of the notarized document. - View Dependent Claims (16)
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