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Text selection from images of documents using auto-completion

  • US 6,766,069 B1
  • Filed: 12/21/1999
  • Issued: 07/20/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/21/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of selecting a text region from at least one source document, comprising:

  • (a) in response to user input of characters defining a partial word, searching optical character recognition (OCR) results representing one or more images of the at least one source document for word matches;

    (b) presenting a word match for user acceptance;

    (c) repeating (b) until the word match is accepted by a user or until all word matches have been presented; and

    (d) in response to the user accepting the word match, copying the word match into a target electronic document;

    wherein the word match copied into the target electronic document automatically completes the partial word with characters from the text region of the at least one source document.

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