CA2365721A1 - Determining the font of text in an image - Google Patents

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CA2365721A1
CA2365721A1 CA002365721A CA2365721A CA2365721A1 CA 2365721 A1 CA2365721 A1 CA 2365721A1 CA 002365721 A CA002365721 A CA 002365721A CA 2365721 A CA2365721 A CA 2365721A CA 2365721 A1 CA2365721 A1 CA 2365721A1
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David Goldberg
Marshall W. Bern
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06V—IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING
    • G06V30/00—Character recognition; Recognising digital ink; Document-oriented image-based pattern recognition
    • G06V30/10—Character recognition
    • G06V30/24—Character recognition characterised by the processing or recognition method
    • G06V30/242—Division of the character sequences into groups prior to recognition; Selection of dictionaries
    • G06V30/244—Division of the character sequences into groups prior to recognition; Selection of dictionaries using graphical properties, e.g. alphabet type or font
    • G06V30/245—Font recognition

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Systems and methods are provided for automatically determining the font of text in a captured document image. Sequences of turns (left, right, straight) around the boundaries of connected components of black pixels in the captured document image are determined. The probabilities of the sequences of turns have come from a particular font within a library of known fonts can be determined using training set statistics. Using these probabilities, the most probable source font is selected.
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