Patent ID: 8086040

Claim:
A method for representing text-like data in an image comprising: acquiring image data at a first resolution; extracting text-like data from the image data; grouping each connected component of the text-like data into one or more clusters; generating a high-resolution representative character for each cluster that has a second resolution greater than the first resolution, wherein the high-resolution representative character for each cluster is determined based on aligning two or more of the connected components that are grouped in the cluster and determining average pixel values for each pixel of the connected components, and generating the high-resolution representative character comprises: generating an averaged image having averaged pixels, a value of each averaged pixel being determined by averaging values of corresponding pixels from the two or more of the connected components; and for each averaged pixel: generating high-resolution pixels; and determining values for each of the high-resolution pixels based on a value of the averaged pixel and values of neighboring averaged pixels; vectorizing the generated high-resolution representative character to generate a vectorized representative character; and representing each character of the text-like data based on the vectorized high-resolution representative character and a location of the character in the image.