Patent Document ID: 9317767
Application ID: 13653948

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for selecting at least one segmentation parameter for optical character recognition comprising: receiving, using one or more computing devices, an image having a character string that includes one or more characters; receiving, using the one or more computing devices, a character string identifying each of the one or more characters; automatically generating, using the one or more computing devices, at least one segmentation parameter; performing segmentation, using the one or more computing devices, on the image having the character string using the at least one segmentation parameter, wherein segmentation is configured to separate each character of the character string; determining, using the one or more computing devices, if a resultant segmentation satisfies an ASCII uniformity criteria; and if the resultant segmentation satisfies the ASCII uniformity criteria, selecting the at least one segmentation parameter.

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Claim 8:
8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one segmentation parameter includes one or more of polarity, line refinement, angle search range, skew search range, normalization mode, stroke width, binarization threshold, border fragments, pixel count, fragment contrast threshold, character height, character width, intercharacter gap, intracharacter gap, fragment distance to main line, fragment merge mode, minimum character aspect, character width type, analysis mode, pitch metric, pitch type, minimum pitch, space insertion, width of space character.