Selective, user-mediated content recognition using mobile devices

A computer program product comprising a computer readable medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions being configured to cause a processor of a mobile device to perform a method for processing a digital image comprising a digital representation of a document, the method comprising:

• displaying the digital image on a first portion of a display of a mobile device;
• receiving user feedback via the display of the mobile device, the user feedback designating either a point of interest or a region interest within the displayed image, wherein each of the point of interest and the region of interest respectively comprise only a portion of the digital image;
• analyzing the user feedback to determine a meaning of the user feedback;
• based on the determined meaning of the user feedback, analyzing a portion of the digital image corresponding to either the point of interest or the region of interest to detect one or more connected components depicted within the portion of the digital image;
• classifying each detected connected component depicted within the portion of the digital image;
• estimating an identity of each detected connected component based on the classification of the detected connected component;
• and
• one or more of:
• displaying the estimated identity of each detected connected component on a second portion of the display of the mobile device;
• and
• providing the estimated identity of each detected connected component to a workflow.