Appeal No. 1999-2022
Application No. 08/963,987
are established and adjusted. Next, a plurality of document
image attributes related to the geometrical integrity of the
document image, the condition of the document image, and the
condition of the text
in the document image, that support the selected criteria are
selected. Then, a plurality of threshold values corresponding
to the selected attributes are selected. The document image is
then processed to obtain values for the selected attributes.
Finally, the value of each of the obtained values for the
selected attributes is compared against the threshold value
selected
for the obtained attribute to determine a difference for each
and then the differences are evaluated using the predetermined
criteria to provide evaluation results of the document image.
Claim 1 is reproduced below and is illustrative of the
invention.
1. A method for assessing the condition of a document as
represented by a document image produced by a high speed
document scanner to determine whether the document image is
suitable for further processing, the method comprising the steps
of:
establishing and adjusting criteria for assessing the
document image;
2
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