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

Claim 16:
17. A method of automatic digital image transcription in an electronic document, the method comprising:
receiving, at a server, (i) a transcription command from a user at a client device to transcribe an imported digital image in the electronic document at the client device and (ii) a copy of the imported digital image; and
in response to receiving the transcription command from the client device, at the server,
performing text recognition based on patterns in the received copy of the imported digital image to generate digital text data corresponding to the received copy of the imported digital image;
determining a content format of the digital text data based on the received copy of the imported digital image by recognizing one or more keywords or punctuations individually corresponding to a text structure;
automatically applying 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;
inserting the typeset digital text data into a server copy of the electronic document at the server; and
transmitting a copy of the inserted typeset digital text data in the server copy to the client device.