Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Selective display of OCR'ed text and corresponding images from publications on a client device
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Application No.: US12366547Application Date: 2009-02-05
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Publication No.: US08373724B2Publication Date: 2013-02-12
- Inventor: Viresh Ratnakar , Frances Haugen , Ashok Popat
- Applicant: Viresh Ratnakar , Frances Haugen , Ashok Popat
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Google Inc.
- Current Assignee: Google Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Fenwick & West LLP
- Main IPC: G09G5/14
- IPC: G09G5/14

Abstract:
Text is extracted from a source image of a publication using an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process. A document is generated containing text segments of the extracted text. The document includes a control module that responds to user interactions with the displayed document. Responsive to a user selection of a displayed text segment, a corresponding image segment from the source image containing the text is retrieved and rendered in place of the selected text segment. The user can select again to toggle the display back to the text segment. Each text segment can be tagged with a garbage score indicating its quality. If the garbage score of a text segment exceeds a threshold value, the corresponding image segment can be automatically displayed instead.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100188419A1 SELECTIVE DISPLAY OF OCR'ED TEXT AND CORRESPONDING IMAGES FROM PUBLICATIONS ON A CLIENT DEVICE Public/Granted day:2010-07-29
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