System and method for detecting and associating elements in an image

A method for detecting and associating elements in an image, the method executed by one or more processors comprising the steps of:

• detecting, by an optical character recognition (OCR) module, a plurality of text tokens in a query image;
• determining, by a detection module, a first element based on an entry point object list and the plurality of text tokens, wherein the entry point object list comprises of text objects or template shapes present in the query image;
• determining, by a region of interest (ROI) module, a plurality of region of interests (ROIs) around the first element in the query image;
• creating, by an image creator module, a plurality of ROI images from the query image based on the plurality of ROIs;
• determining, by the detection module, a potential second element present in the plurality of ROI images;
• generating, by a confidence score module, a confidence score for each of the potential second element;
• filtering, by the confidence score module, the potential second element based on the confidence score and a predetermined threshold to determine a second element;
• and
• associating, by an association module, the determined second element with the first element as a single component.