Patent Document ID: 9336437
Application ID: 14457784

Base Claim:
1. A method of segregating handwritten information from typographic information on a document, the method comprising: receiving an electronic document image of a document, the electronic document image comprising a plurality of pixels, wherein each of the plurality of pixels comprises one of a plurality of characteristics; identifying a first, a second, and a third most frequently occurring characteristic of the plurality of pixels, wherein the pixels of the plurality of pixels comprising the first most frequently occurring characteristic of the plurality of characteristics or the second most frequently occurring characteristic of the plurality of characteristics represent typographic information; determining a background of the document, wherein the background is represented by the pixels of the plurality of pixels of the electronic document image which comprise the first most frequently occurring characteristic of the plurality of characteristics or the second most frequently occurring characteristic of the plurality of characteristics; determining, by a computer processor, handwritten information of the document, wherein the handwritten information is represented by the pixels of the plurality of pixels of the electronic document image which comprise the third most frequently occurring characteristic of the plurality of characteristics; and deriving a first representation of the handwritten information and a second representation of the typographic information.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 further comprising filtering out pixels of the plurality of pixels from the electronic document image if the color of the pixels of the plurality of pixels substantially comprises a shade of black or a shade of grey.