Patent ID: 9721177
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K,G06T,H04N

Claim:
1. An electronic-device-implemented method for extracting textual information from a document, comprising: launching an imaging application that executes on the electronic device; displaying, in a window associated with the imaging application, visual suitability indicators of a tilt orientation of the electronic device relative to a plane of the document, wherein the visual suitability indicators include a ball whose position in the window indicates the tilt orientation, and a circular shape in the center of the window; modifying the visual suitability indicators when the tilt orientation falls within a predefined range, wherein modifying the visual suitability indicators includes displaying the ball within the circular shape in the center of the window; acquiring an image of the document using an imaging device, which is integrated into the electronic device; and extracting the textual information from the image of the document using optical character recognition.