Method and system for converting text files searchable text and for processing the searchable text

• US 9,020,811 B2
• Filed: 10/15/2012
• Issued: 04/28/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Syscom Incorporated (Teijin Limited)
• Original Assignee: Syscom Incorporated (Teijin Limited)
• Inventors: Bayer, Theodore F., Adkins, Donald R., Corbin, Gregory A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Serrou, Abdelali
• Application Number:
  US13/651,541
• Publication Number:
  US 20130041892A1
• Time in Patent Office: 925 Days
• Field of Search: 704/260, 704 1- 10, 704231- 24, 704/251, 382/176, 382/179, 382/321, 382/305, 382/307, 382/229, 382/232, 715/255, 715/256
• US Class Current: 704/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/632 Query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/685 using automatically derived transcript of audio data, e.g. lyrics speech recognition G10L15/00

Abstract

A system and method for processing audio text files includes a content repository storing audio text files. A text transformer linguistically analyzes the audio text files within a content of multiple lexicons to form edited text results and creates a reflection repository having reflection files therein corresponding to the audio text files from the edited text results. A search engine searches the reflection files and a user device displays a first reflection file from the reflection files or a first audio text file from the audio files in response to searching.

Claims

1. A method of processing optical character recognition results of image text documents comprising:

receiving optical character recognition results at or from within a text transformer;

linguistically analyzing the optical character recognition results within a context of multiple lexicons to form edited text results;

electronically creating reflection files corresponding to the image text documents from the edited text results;

electronically communicating the reflection files to an electronic content repository;

storing the reflection files in the electronic reflection repository;

processing the reflection files; and

displaying on a display a first reflection file from the reflection files or a first image text document from the image text documents in response to processing.

2. A method as recited in claim 1 wherein processing comprises searching the reflection files.

3. A method as recited in claim 1 wherein processing comprises text analyzing the reflection files.

4. A method as recited in claim 1 wherein text analyzing comprises generating an index.

5. A method as recited in claim 1 further comprising storing the image text documents in a content repository prior to performing optical character recognition.

6. A method as recited in claim 5 further comprising storing metadata associated with the image text documents in the content repository.

7. A method as recited in claim 1 wherein the multiple lexicons include custom lexicons.

8. A method as recited in claim 1 further comprising grammatically analyzing the optical character recognition results to form the edited text results.

9. A method as recited in claim 1 further comprising spell checking the optical character recognition results to form the edited text results.

10. A method as recited in claim 1 further comprising displaying a plurality of search results in response to processing.

11. A method as recited in claim 10 further comprising selecting a first search result from the plurality of search results and wherein displaying comprises displaying the first reflection file from the reflection files or the first image document from the image documents in response to processing and selecting.

12. A method as recited in claim 1 wherein displaying a first reflection file from the reflection files or a first image document comprises displaying the first reflection file and the first image text document.

13. A method as recited in claim 5 wherein the reflection repository and the content repository are co-located.

14. A method as recited in claim 5 further comprising linking a first text image and a first reflection file in the content repository.

15. A method as recited in claim 5 further comprising linking a first text image and the first reflection file in the content repository with a security setting of the first text image.

16. A method as recited in claim 1 further comprising forming a search index from the reflected files and wherein processing comprises processing the search index.

17. A method as recited in claim 16 further comprising deleting the text documents after forming an index.

18. A method as recited in claim 1 further comprising associating metadata with each of the image text documents.

19. A method as recited in claim 18 further comprising naming each image text document in response to the respective metadata.

20. A method as recited in claim 19 wherein searching comprises searching content of each image text documents and the metadata.

21. A method as recited in claim 1 further comprising translating the image text documents from a first language to a second language.