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US 2002/0176628 A1Published application
Document imaging and indexing system
OwnerGary K. Starkweatherinventor
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A document digitizing method digitizes and automatically indexes documents in printed form. The method includes optically scanning the document, forming and storing a digitized image file from the optically scanned document, optically recognizing characters in the optically scanned document, and forming and storing a text file of the optically recognized characters in document. A retrieval method for retrieving the digitized image file for a document includes searching the text files to identify any having a selected text string and providing access to the digitized image files that correspond to those text files. The digital image file and the text file together represent a digitized document data structure that combines a digital image of a document with a text file of optically recognized characters in the digital image.
A document digitizing method of digitizing a document in printed form, comprising:
In a document digitizing system for optically scanning and digitizing a document in printed form and having a computer readable medium, a digitized document data structure for digitized documents stored in the computer readable, comprising:
In a document digitizing system for optically scanning and forming a digitized image file of a document having text characters in printed form, a method of retrieving the digitized image file for a document, comprising:
In a computer-readable medium, document digitizing software for digitizing a document in printed form, comprising:
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