Patent ID: 6289121
Filing Date: 2001-09-11
Classification: G06K,H04N

Abstract:
A method of inputting text from multiple pages into a digital memory device, comprising the steps of:a) automatically turning a page;b) scanning text on the page for optically converting the text into a predetermined format of digital data;c) determining a break at an end of a first portion of the text based upon a predetermined key word which is followed by one or more pages containing an irrelevant portion of the text and/or graphics that is irrelevant to the first portion of the text;d) turning the one or more pages containing the irrelevant portion of the text and/or the graphics based upon said step c);e) determining an end of the irrelevant portion in the digital data, a second portion defining the text which follows the end of the irrelevant portion; andf) scanning the second portion of the text; andg) inputting the scanned text of the first and second portions of the text without the one or more pages containing the irrelevant portion of the text and/or the graphics irrelevant to the first and second portions into the digital memory device.