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

Claim 9:
10. A computing device for processing electronic documents, the computing device being interconnected to a remote server via a computer network, wherein the computing device comprising:
a processor; and
a memory containing instructions executable by the processor to cause the computing device to:
receive a command to transcribe an imported digital image in an electronic document at the computing device; and
in response to receiving the command and before the electronic document is transmitted, transmitting, from the computing device and via the computer network, a transcription request along with a copy of the imported digital image to the remote server, wherein the remote server is configured to:
perform text recognition based on patterns in a received copy of the imported digital image to generate digital text data corresponding to the received copy of the imported digital image;
recognize one or more keywords or punctuations in the generated digital text data individually corresponding to a text structure;
automatically format 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; and
transmit, via the computer network, the digital text data with the text structure to the computing device; and

upon receiving the copy of the digital text data with the text structure, insert the received copy of the digital text data with the text structure into the electronic document.