Method of recognizing and indexing documents
AssigneeOce-Industries Inc.
InventorsStephane Berche, Laurent Najman
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Abstract
A method of recognizing and indexing documents, using a scanner connected to a computer, the method including scanning the documents, then using a pointing device or member of the computer to designate an arbitrary point P in at least one box of the documents, and finally recognizing by OCR the characters in said box so as to store them in a first database connected to the computer to enable documents scanned in this way to be indexed. The designation step comprises a step of searching for and identifying the box of the document containing said point P designated by the user.
Claims16
A method of recognizing and indexing documents in a system having a scanner (30) connected to a computer, the method comprising:
- scanning the documents;
- using a pointing device or member of the computer to designate an arbitrary point P in at least one box of the documents;
- recognizing by OCR the characters in said box;
- and
- storing the recognized characters in a first database connected to the computer to enable documents scanned in this way to be indexed.
An apparatus for recognizing and indexing documents, the apparatus comprising:
- a scanner for scanning a document and delivering an image of the document;
- a computer connected to the scanner to receive said scan image;
- a first database connected to said computer for storing said scanned image;
- and
- first software for using a pointing device or member of the computer to designate an arbitrary point P in at least one box of the image, for searching for and identifying the box containing said point P designated by the user, for recognizing by OCR the characters in said box, and for storing the recognized characters so as to enable images scanned in this way to be indexed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.