System and method for improved OCR efficacy through image segmentation

A non-transitory processor readable medium for operating a processor to increase accuracy of optical character recognition (OCR) software, and with the non-transitory computer readable medium having a plurality of computer executable instructions to cause the processor coupled to a memory to:

• scan an electronically stored representation of a whole or partial document;
• identify an image having text in the electronically stored representation of a whole or partial document;
• identify text identified within the image;
• generate a plurality of bounding boxes around the identified text using blob detection;
• group together certain identified text of the plurality of identified text whose bounding boxes are vertically aligned with each other to generate a plurality of aligned text;
• perform OCR on text whose bounding boxes are vertically aligned to generate a plurality of OCR groups of text;
• generate a resultant representation of a whole or partial document electronically using the plurality of OCR groups of text;
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• save the resultant representation of a whole or partial document electronically;
• wherein the processor is configured to create one or more images or image layers of identified text whose bounding boxes share similar vertical alignment;
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• wherein additional identified text is added to that image or image layer having bounding boxes vertically aligned with the additional identified text or, failing to find a suitable image or image layer, to create one or more new images or image layers for the additional identified text.