FORMING SCANNED COMPOSITE DOCUMENT WITH OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION FUNCTION

• US 20150302246A1
• Filed: 04/22/2014
• Published: 10/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo PC International Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kapinos, Robert James, Hilburger, Paul, Feng, Xin
• Granted Patent: US 9,881,223 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/20 in augmented reality scenes
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/63 Scene text, e.g. street names
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/43 Editing text-bitmaps, e.g. alignment, spacing; Semantic analysis of bitmaps of text without OCR

Abstract

An embodiment provides a method, including: capturing, using an image capture device of an electronic device, image data of a document; processing, using a processor, the image data; the processing including identifying text within the image data to form two or more images into a composite document of the document; and storing, in a memory, data related to the composite document. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

capturing, using an image capture device of an electronic device, image data of a document;

processing, using a processor, the image data;

the processing including identifying text within the image data to form two or more images into a composite document of the document; and

storing, in a memory, data related to the composite document.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said capturing comprises capturing a plurality of images of a document.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein:

said capturing comprises capturing continuous image data of the document; and

said analyzing comprises forming two or more images from the continuous image data of the document.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein continuous image data comprises continuous video feed data.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyzing comprises processing the image data to extract text data from the image data and perform an action selected from the group consisting of:

transforming the image data, scaling the image data, de-skewing the image data, adjusting contrast of the image data.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the analyzing comprises linguistically analyzing the text data.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein linguistically analyzing the text data comprises:

accessing a database of linguistic rules; and

analyzing text data of the two or more images to form the composite document.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyzing comprises identifying at least one low confidence element of the document in the composite document.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the at least one low confidence element is associated with a characteristic selected from the group of characteristics consisting of:

a blurred image, a missing image portion;

a linguistically erroneous image portion, a low resolution portion of the image, an image portion having poor image contrast, an image portion having poor light level.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the analyzing comprises identifying at least one image to remedy at least one low confidence element of the document in the composite document;

and

the method further comprising prompting the user to capture additional image data associated with the low confidence element.

11. An apparatus, comprising:

an image capture device;

a processor operatively coupled to the image capture device;

a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to;

capture, using the image capture device, image data of a document;

process the image data;

including identifying text within the image data to form two or more images into a composite document of the document; and

store, in a memory, data related to the composite document.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein to capture comprises capturing a plurality of images of a document.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein:

to capture comprises capturing continuous image data of the document; and

to analyze comprises forming two or more images from the continuous image data of the document.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein continuous image data comprises continuous video feed data.

15. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein to analyze comprises processing the image data to extract text data from the image data and perform an action selected from the group consisting of:

transforming the image data, scaling the image data, de-skewing the image data, adjusting contrast of the image data.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein to analyze comprises linguistically analyzing the text data.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein linguistically analyzing the text data comprises:

accessing a database of linguistic rules; and

analyzing text data of the two or more images to form the composite document.

18. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein to analyze comprises identifying at least one low confidence element of the document in the composite document.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein to analyze comprises identifying at least one image to remedy at least one low confidence element of the document in the composite document;

and

the instructions further executable by the processor to prompt the user to capture additional image data associated with the low confidence element

20. A computer program product, comprising:

a storage device code stored therewith and executable by a processor, the code comprising;

code that captures, using an image capture device of an electronic device, image data of a document;

code that processes, using a processor, the image data, including identifying text within the image data to form two or more images into a composite document of the document; and

code that stores, in a memory, data related to the composite document.