TABLE GRID DETECTION AND SEPARATION

Patent №

US 8,625,895

Granted

2014-01-07

Filed 2009

Owner

THE NEAT COMPANY, INC. DOING BUSINESS AS NEATRECEIPTS, INC.

Lab

AI components

2

nlp · vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12414365

A technique is described for table grid detection and separation during the analysis and recognition of documents containing table contents. The technique includes the steps of table detection, grid separation, and table cell extraction. The technique is characterized by the steps of detecting the grid lines of a table using, for example, inverse cell detection, separating noise and touching text from the grid lines, and extracting the cell contents for OCR recognition.

AI classification

Vision1.00
Natural language0.85
AI hardware0.18
Machine learning0.09
Planning0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Knowledge representation0.00

Ownership

THE NEAT COMPANY, INC. DOING BUSINESS AS NEATRECEIPTS, INC.

assignment · 313610384

Assignors

MA, HUANFENG

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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