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Multiple image font processing

  • US 5,444,840 A
  • Filed: 12/21/1994
  • Issued: 08/22/1995
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/12/1990
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A computer-implemented method of retrievably storing contents of a plurality of documents having images imprinted thereon comprisingoptically scanning the documents to form a digital representation of the images on the documents,storing the image representation of each document,establishing from images of the scanned documents a font table in image of alphanumeric characters in a plurality of different fonts each character in each font correlated with an equivalent character in code,searching for a document by the steps ofinteractively selecting a search word by a user,entering by a user the selected search word in code,machine-constructing an image of the selected search word from the font table in at least one font,comparing the constructed search word with the image representations of scanned documents until a match in a stored document image is found, anddisplaying an image thereof of the matched document.

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