Getting picture contours

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I'm trying to extract the following image, and do perspective correction but its not working as expected.

here is my full code

#include "opencv2/imgproc.hpp"
#include "opencv2/imgcodecs.hpp"
#include "opencv2/highgui.hpp"
#include <iostream>

using namespace cv;
using namespace std;
double angle(cv::Point pt1, cv::Point pt2, cv::Point pt0) {
    double dx1 = pt1.x - pt0.x;
    double dy1 = pt1.y - pt0.y;
    double dx2 = pt2.x - pt0.x;
    double dy2 = pt2.y - pt0.y;
    return (dx1*dx2 + dy1*dy2) / sqrt((dx1*dx1 + dy1*dy1)*(dx2*dx2 + dy2*dy2) + 1e-10);
}

void find_squares(Mat& image, vector<vector<Point> >& squares)
{
    // blur will enhance edge detection
    Mat blurred(image);
    Mat dst;
    medianBlur(image, dst, 9);

    Mat gray0(dst.size(), CV_8U), gray;
    vector<vector<Point> > contours;

    // find squares in every color plane of the image
    for (int c = 0; c < 3; c++)
    {
        int ch[] = { c, 0 };
        mixChannels(&dst, 1, &gray0, 1, ch, 1);

        // try several threshold levels
        const int threshold_level = 2;
        for (int l = 0; l < threshold_level; l++)
        {
            // Use Canny instead of zero threshold level!
            // Canny helps to catch squares with gradient shading
            if (l == 0)
            {
                Canny(gray0, gray, 10, 20, 3); // 

                                               // Dilate helps to remove potential holes between edge segments
                dilate(gray, gray, Mat(), Point(-1, -1));
            }
            else
            {
                gray = gray0 >= (l + 1) * 255 / threshold_level;
            }

            // Find contours and store them in a list
            findContours(gray, contours, CV_RETR_LIST, CV_CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE);

            // Test contours
            vector<Point> approx;
            for (size_t i = 0; i < contours.size(); i++)
            {
                // approximate contour with accuracy proportional
                // to the contour perimeter
                approxPolyDP(Mat(contours[i]), approx, arcLength(Mat(contours[i]), true)*0.02, true);

                // Note: absolute value of an area is used because
                // area may be positive or negative - in accordance with the
                // contour orientation
                if (approx.size() == 4 &&
                    fabs(contourArea(Mat(approx))) > 1000 &&
                    isContourConvex(Mat(approx)))
                {
                    double maxCosine = 0;

                    for (int j = 2; j < 5; j++)
                    {
                        double cosine = fabs(angle(approx[j % 4], approx[j - 2], approx[j - 1]));
                        maxCosine = MAX(maxCosine, cosine);
                    }

                    if (maxCosine < 0.3)
                        squares.push_back(approx);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}


cv::Mat debugSquares(std::vector<std::vector<cv::Point> > squares, cv::Mat image)
{
    for (int i = 0; i< squares.size(); i++) {
        // draw contour
        cv::drawContours(image, squares, i, cv::Scalar(255, 0, 0), 1, 8, std::vector<cv::Vec4i>(), 0, cv::Point());

        // draw bounding rect
        cv::Rect rect = boundingRect(cv::Mat(squares[i]));
        cv::rectangle(image, rect.tl(), rect.br(), cv::Scalar(0, 255, 0), 2, 8, 0);

        // draw rotated rect
        cv::RotatedRect minRect = minAreaRect(cv::Mat(squares[i]));
        cv::Point2f rect_points[4];
        minRect.points(rect_points);
        for (int j = 0; j < 4; j++) {
            cv::line(image, rect_points[j], rect_points[(j + 1) % 4], cv::Scalar(0, 0, 255), 1, 8); // blue
        }
    }

    return image;
}


static std::vector<cv::Point> extremePoints(std::vector<cv::Point>pts)
{
    int  xmin = 0, ymin = 0, xmax = -1, ymax = -1, i;
    Point ptxmin, ptymin, ptxmax, ptymax;

    Point pt = pts[0];

    ptxmin = ptymin = ptxmax = ptymax = pt;
    xmin = xmax = pt.x;
    ymin = ymax = pt.y;

    for (size_t i = 1; i < pts.size(); i++)
    {
        pt = pts[i];

        if (xmin > pt.x)
        {
            xmin ...