Patent ID: 7319799
Filing Date: 2008-01-15
Classification: G06K,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of recognizing and indexing documents in a system having a scanner connected to a computer, the method comprising: scanning a document; designating, by a user, an arbitrary point P in at least one box of the scanned document using a pointing device or member of the computer, wherein no extracting or analyzing process takes place previous to the user's designation; searching for and identifying said box by applying a shape search algorithm over a determined search zone surrounding said point P previously designated by the user, wherein if the determined search zone does not include the entire box, using at least one additional search zone of increasing size until the entire box is within the search zone; recognizing by OCR the characters in said identified box of the scanned document; storing the recognized characters in a first database connected to the computer to enable documents scanned in this way to be indexed; and storing, in a second database connected to the computer, characterization data of said box of the scanned document, such that another box subsequently can be identified automatically without any point P within said another box being designated, for next documents of a same type.