Patent ID: 11935313
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method of automatic digital image transcription in an electronic document, the method comprising:
importing, a digital image into a body section of an electronic document being composed in an email client at a client device;
receiving, at the client device, a transcription command to automatically transcribe the imported digital image in the electronic document; and
in response to receiving the transcription command and before the electronic document is transmitted,
transmitting a copy of the imported digital image to a server interconnected to the client device via a computer network;
performing, at the server, text recognition based on patterns in the imported digital image to generate digital text data corresponding to the copy of the imported digital image;
determining, at the server, a content format of the digital text data based on the imported digital image by recognizing one or more keywords or punctuations individually corresponding to a text structure;
automatically applying, at the server, the determined content format to the generated digital text data such that the generated digital text data has the text structure corresponding to the recognized one or more keywords or punctuations, thereby typesetting the digital text data;
providing a copy of the typeset digital text data to the client device from the server via the computer network; and
inserting and surfacing, at the client device, the provided copy of the typeset digital text data into a copy of the electronic document.