Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Document scanner
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Application No.: US14690274Application Date: 2015-04-17
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Publication No.: US09852348B2Publication Date: 2017-12-26
- Inventor: Krishnendu Chaudhury , Lu Chen , David Petrou , Blaise Aguera-Arcas
- Applicant: Google Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Google LLC
- Current Assignee: Google LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: G06K9/18
- IPC: G06K9/18 ; G06K9/00 ; G06K9/32 ; G06K9/34 ; G06K9/46 ; G06K9/62 ; G06T3/40 ; G06T11/60 ; G06K9/36

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, to generate a scannable document. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a scan request, wherein the scan request includes a plurality of text images; for each text image of the plurality of text images: rectifying the text image to generate a text image with parallel image lines, generating a plurality of word bounding boxes that enclose one or more connected components in the text image, wherein each word bounding box is associated with a respective word, and generating, for each respective word in the text image, a plurality of points that represent the respective word; combining the plurality of text images to form a single text document; and providing the combined image as a scannable document.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160307059A1 Document Scanner Public/Granted day:2016-10-20
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