Method and system for ideogram character analysis

A non-transitory computer readable medium for ideogram character analysis, the non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable program code comprising instructions for:

• maintaining a set of valid stroke id sequences mapped to a set of valid ideogram characters of an ideogram language;
• receiving a first search phrase for searching a set of character recognized documents, the first search phrase submitted by a user via a user interface and comprising a first set of ideogram characters;
• partitioning a first ideogram character from the first search phrase into a plurality of strokes;
• mapping each stroke of the plurality of strokes to a corresponding stroke identifier (id) to create a first stroke id sequence comprising a plurality of stroke identifiers;
• modifying the first stroke id sequence to create a second stroke id sequence within a specified edit distance to the first stroke id sequence;
• determining that the second stroke id sequence is a valid stroke id sequence that maps to a second ideogram character of the ideogram language;
• based on the determination that the second stroke id sequence is the valid stroke id sequence, combining the second ideogram character with a second set of ideogram characters to create a second search phrase, the second set of ideogram characters comprising a subset of the first set of ideogram characters;
• performing a search of a set of character recognized documents using the first search phrase and the second search phrase to obtain a result identifying any documents in the set of character recognized documents that match the first search phrase and any documents in the set of character recognized documents that match the second search phrase;
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• providing the result for display in the user interface.