US Patent Issued to Accenture Global Solutions on Dec. 2 for "Intelligent nested tables detection and text extraction from images and scanned documents" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,605, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Accenture Global Solutions Ltd. (Dublin).

"Intelligent nested tables detection and text extraction from images and scanned documents" was invented by Nakul Aggarwal (Kapurthala, India), Snehlata Sinha (Patna, India), Karna Rajesh Rewatkar (Nagpur, India) and Debasmita Ghosh (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus are provided for detecting and extracting data from a nested table. A contour image of a first table disposed within a cell of a second table from an input image is identified. The first table on the input image is masked to generate a masked image ...