US 12,260,659 B2
Font attribute detection
Ophir Azulai, Tivon (IL); Daniel Nechemia Rotman, Haifa (IL); and Udi Barzelay, Haifa (IL)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Apr. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/660,639.
Prior Publication US 2023/0343124 A1, Oct. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 40/30 (2020.01); G06V 30/14 (2022.01); G06V 30/148 (2022.01); G06V 30/244 (2022.01)
CPC G06V 30/245 (2022.01) [G06F 40/30 (2020.01); G06V 30/1444 (2022.01); G06V 30/153 (2022.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving a document having different font attributes amongst a plurality of words respectively comprised of at least one character;
generating a dense image document from the document by:
setting the plurality of words to a predefined size;
removing blank spaces from the document; and
altering an order of characters relative to the document by placing the characters in a random order relative to the document;
determining characteristics of the characters in the dense image document;
aggregating the characteristics for at least one word; and
annotating the at least one word with a font attribute based on the aggregated characteristics.