Patent ID: 8977057
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of processing diacritic marks in detected text using optical character recognition (OCR), the method comprising: receiving, by a computer system, an electronic image containing text including a plurality of diacritics; analyzing, by the computer system, the electronic image to generate a plurality of bounding blocks associated with text within the electronic image, wherein the plurality of bounding blocks include at least a base text bounding box and a diacritic bounding box; determining a base box distance between the diacritic bounding box and a nearest base text bounding box; analyzing the plurality of bounding blocks to determine a plurality of text lines; determining a proximity value for the diacritic bounding box to a nearest text line of the plurality of text lines; associating, by the computer system, the diacritic bounding box with a corresponding text line based on the proximity value and the base box distance, whereby the diacritic bounding box association is thus made responsive to a determination of multiple distance values, namely the proximity value and the base box distance; and processing the plurality of bounding blocks to produce electronic text from the electronic image.