FINDING IMAGE CAPTURE DATE OF HARDCOPY MEDIUM

摘要

A method of determining the image capture date of a scanned hardcopy medium having an image side and a non-image side, includes scanning the hardcopy medium to produce a scanned digital image; detecting handwritten annotations in the scanned digital image of the hardcopy medium; and using the handwritten annotations to determine the image capture date of the hardcopy medium by analyzing the handwritten annotations to identify names of people and associated ages; providing the names and lifespan information for a set of persons likely to appear in the hardcopy medium; and using the identified names of people and the associated ages along with the lifespan information to determine the image capture date.