Designing a Business Card Reader (BCR) for mobile devices is a challenge to
the researchers because of huge deformation in acquired images, multiplicity in
nature of the business cards and most importantly the computational constraints
of the mobile devices. This paper presents a text extraction method designed in
our work towards developing a BCR for mobile devices. At first, the background
of a camera captured image is eliminated at a coarse level. Then, various rule
based techniques are applied on the Connected Components (CC) to filter out the
noises and picture regions.