摘要 |
In the ruled line elimination apparatus of the present invention, the ruled line contacting a character or overlapping to the character is completely eliminated. First, a ruled line determination section determines existence area of the ruled line in the input image. Second, a ruled line elimination section determines continuous pixels consisting of the ruled line in the existence area, and eliminates the continuous pixels by unit of predetermined width, in which a direction of the predetermined width is perpendiculer to a directed of the ruled line.
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