AUTOMATED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NAMING DOCUMENTS FROM A SCANNED SOURCE BASED ON MANUALLY MARKED TEXT

• US 20090092317A1
• Filed: 10/03/2007
• Published: 04/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Nolepa, Matthew John, Nagarajan, Ramesh
• Granted Patent: US 8,285,047 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/10 Character recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/1448 based on markings or identifiers characterising the document or the area

Abstract

A method for associating text with image data of documents is herein described. The method includes receiving image data of a document with manually marked text and recognizing the manually marked text. The image data is then annotated (e.g., tagged) using the manually marked text and the image data of the document is stored. When manually marked text is recognized, recognized text may be generated for annotating the image data of the document and used to populate a field associated with the image data. The field may be a name of the document or a subject line of an e-mail message, for example. A method including identifying the location of manually marked text in a first scanned document to automatically identify and annotate text in a corresponding location in a second scanned document is also disclosed.

Claims

1. A method for associating text with image data of a document, the method comprising:

receiving image data for a document with manually marked text;

recognizing the manually marked text in the image data;

annotating the image data using the manually marked text, and

storing the annotated image data.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the image data for the document is created by scanning.

3. A method according to claim 2, further comprising:

generating recognized text in response to recognizing the manually marked text, and annotating the image data for the document with the recognized text.

4. A method according to claim 3, further comprising:

populating a field associated with the image data for the document using the recognized text.

5. A method according to claim 4, wherein the field is the name of the image data for the document.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein annotating the document comprises naming the document.

7. A method for automatically identifying and associating text with scanned documents, the method comprising:

scanning a first document into image data;

recognizing manually marked text in the image data of the first scanned document;

identifying a location of the manually marked text in the image data of the first scanned document;

storing the location of the manually marked text, and, thereafter;

scanning a second document into image data; and

storing the image data for the second scanned document,

wherein the location of the manually marked text in the first scanned document is used to identify a corresponding location in the second scanned document, such that a text in the corresponding location of the second scanned document is recognized, and wherein the image data for the second scanned document is annotated with the recognized text.

8. A method according to claim 7, further comprising:

generating recognized text in response to recognizing the text in the second scanned document, and

annotating the image data for the second scanned document with the recognized text.

9. A method according to claim 8, further comprising:

populating a field associated with the image data for the second scanned document using the recognized text.

10. A method according to claim 9, wherein the field is the name of the image data for the scanned document.

11. A method according to claim 7, further comprising:

assigning the image data for the second scanned document a name using the text identified in the corresponding location in the second scanned document.

12. A system for automatically identifying and associating text in a scanned document, the system comprising:

a module for scanning a first document having manually marked text into image data;

a module for recognizing the manually marked text in the image data of the first scanned document;

a module for identifying a location of the manually marked text in the image data of the first scanned document;

a module for storing the location of the manually marked text, and thereafter;

a module for scanning a second document into image data; and

a module for storing the image data for the second scanned document,

wherein the module for identifying the location of the manually marked text in the first scanned document is configured to identify a corresponding location in the second scanned document and configured to recognize a text in the corresponding location of the second scanned document, and wherein the image data for the second scanned document is annotated with the recognized text.

13. A system according to claim 12, further comprising:

a module for generating recognized text in response to recognizing the text in the second scanned document, and

a module for annotating the image data of the second scanned document with the recognized text.

14. A system according to claim 13, further comprising:

a module for populating a field associated with the image data of the second scanned document using the recognized text.

15. A system according to claim 14, wherein the field is the name of the image data for the second scanned document.

16. A system according to claim 13, further comprising a module for assigning the image data of the second scanned document a name using the text that is recognized in the corresponding location of the second scanned document.