Form Creation Device with OCR-Optimized Image Element Ranges
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing form creation devices lack the ability to generate forms that are optimally suited for OCR processing, leading to reduced accuracy and limited flexibility in layout design.
Innovation Solution
A form creation device with a retaining unit that sets suitable image elements and an image generation unit that generates form images based on user input, incorporating settings for OCR compatibility, such as character fonts, sizes, and layout elements, while allowing for design freedom and automatic suitability checking and replacement of non-compatible elements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If forms are generated without OCR compatibility constraints, then layout design freedom is improved, but OCR processing accuracy deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by establishing specific ranges for image element parameters (font types, font sizes, line widths, character spacing) that are optimized for OCR processing. The retaining unit stores predetermined ranges of parameters that ensure OCR compatibility while allowing flexibility within those ranges, thus resolving the contradiction between design freedom and OCR accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-defining and retaining suitable ranges of image element parameters that are known to be compatible with OCR processing. Before form generation, the system prepares and stores these parameter ranges, allowing the form creation to proceed smoothly within established boundaries that guarantee OCR accuracy without requiring real-time adjustments.
2Measurement precision
If OCR compatibility settings are enforced, then OCR processing accuracy is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The retaining unit pre-stores predetermined ranges of parameters for image elements that are suitable for OCR processing. This preliminary preparation eliminates the need for complex real-time analysis and decision-making during form generation, simplifying the device structure while ensuring OCR compatibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses copying by retaining and reusing predetermined parameter ranges that have been previously determined to be OCR-compatible. Instead of performing complex calculations or analyses for each form generation, the system copies and applies these pre-validated parameter ranges, reducing device complexity while maintaining high OCR accuracy.
3Measurement precision
If manual adjustment of image elements is required for OCR compatibility, then OCR processing accuracy is improved, but user workload increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service by automatically selecting image element parameters within the predetermined suitable ranges during form generation. The device autonomously ensures OCR compatibility without requiring manual intervention from the user, thereby maintaining high OCR accuracy while minimizing user workload. The user simply needs to provide high-level form specifications, and the system handles the detailed parameter optimization automatically.
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AI summary
There is provided a form creation device including a retaining unit that retains a range of set information which prescribes image elements that are suitable for OCR processing and an image generation unit that generates a form image based on a user's input and the set information range retained in the retaining unit.