ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,517, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Graph-based document layout detection" was invented by Yair Kittenplon (Raanana, Israel), Shai Mazor (Binyamina, Israel), Ron Litman (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Niv Berchi Nayman (Shoham, Israel) and Shahar Tsiper (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A document layout system for determining a layout of a document. The document layout system is configured to apply an OCR technique to identify the text in the document. The document layout system is further configured to generate a graph representation of the document, wherein the graph representation comprise...