摘要 |
Analyzing an input image, the input image being one of a digitized image stored in a memory or a scanned image from a scanner. Forming a feature image from the input image by dividing the input image into a plurality of blocks of pixels, thus associating each block of pixels in the input image with a single pixel in the feature image, and outputting the feature image for further analysis or storage in a memory. Example embodiments extract and analyze features from a document image to detect particular characteristics associated with the page area, the distortion area, and the book spine area. Extracted features can be further analyzed to detect document characteristics at the paragraph, line, word, and character levels. |