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System and method of determining image skew using connected components

  • US 7,336,813 B2
  • Filed: 04/26/2004
  • Issued: 02/26/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An image processing system for determining a skew of a document image, comprising:

  • an image segmentation system that identifies and segments a line of printed characters captured from the document image by identifying connected components that reside in a predetermined region of the document image and that meet predetermined size criteria; and

    a skew processing system that determines the skew of the document image by calculating a slope value between a pair of characters in the line.

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