Methods and systems for finding elements in optical character recognition documents

A system for finding elements in optical character recognition (OCR) documents comprising:

• a processor executing instructions stored in a memory device, wherein the processor:
• receives an indication of a selected portion of document;
• determines salient pixels in the selected portion of the document;
• identifies properties of the salient pixels in the selected portion of the document;
• compares the properties of the salient pixels in the selected portion of the document to properties of pixels in each of a plurality of portions of an OCR-converted version of the document;
• and
• utilizes a cognitive analysis to select at least some of the plurality of portions of the OCR-converted version of the document as suspected matches to the selected portion of the document.

A computer program product for finding elements in optical character recognition (OCR) documents, by a processor, the computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code portions stored therein, the computer-readable program code portions comprising:

• an executable portion that receives an indication of a selected portion of document;
• an executable portion that determines salient pixels in the selected portion of the document;
• an executable portion that identifies properties of the salient pixels in the selected portion of the document;
• an executable portion that compares the properties of the salient pixels in the selected portion of the document to properties of pixels in each of a plurality of portions of an OCR-converted version of the document;
• and
• an executable portion that utilizes a cognitive analysis to select at least some of the plurality of portions of the OCR-converted version of the document as suspected matches to the selected portion of the document.