Patent attributes
In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a method for processing a digitally captured image that comprises an imaged document. The method comprises: detecting graphical information related to spatial discontinuities of the digitally captured image; detecting lines from the detected graphical information; computing effective area parameters for quadrilaterals associated with ones of the detected lines, wherein each effective area parameter for a respective quadrilateral equals an area of the respective quadrilateral modified by at least a corner matching score that is indicative of a number of connected edge pixels in corners of the respective quadrilateral; and selecting a quadrilateral of the quadrilaterals that possesses a largest effective area parameter.
