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Document imaging and indexing system

  • US 8,380,012 B2
  • Filed: 02/08/2005
  • Issued: 02/19/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of retrieving a digitized image file from a document storage system, the document storage system comprising a plurality of digitized image files and a plurality of text files, wherein each digitized image file is associated with a text file of text characters and comprises a digitized image of a printed document comprising the text characters in printed form, the method comprising:

  • searching by a computer processor the plurality of text files to identify a plurality of first text files comprising at least one of a plurality of separate first text strings, wherein the plurality of first text files was generated using optical character recognition of the plurality of digitized image files, wherein searching the plurality of text files to identify the plurality of first text files comprising the at least one of the plurality of first text string comprises;

    specifying the plurality of separate first text strings; and

    searching the plurality of text files in a batch to identify which of the plurality of first text files has any of the plurality of separate first text strings;

    searching by a computer processor the plurality of first text files to identify a second text file comprising a second text string, wherein the second text file is associated with a second digitized image file, wherein the second text file was generated using optical character recognition of the second digitized image file; and

    providing access to the second digitized image file by enabling a user to select the second digitized image file for display.

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