Patent ID: 8611661

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a reading device with a processor; and memory coupled to the processor and configured to store instructions that, in response to being executed by the processor, cause the reading device to: process an image into first and second processed images, each of the processed images having different sizes and corresponding to the image at different resolutions; identify text in the first processed image, using optical character recognition and an operator window of a first size; after identification of text in the first processed image, identify a first portion of the first processed image in which text was identified, the first portion corresponding to a first region of the image; after identification of a first portion of the first processed image, select a second portion of the second processed image based on the first portion of the first processed image, wherein the second portion corresponds to a second region of the image that is different from the first region of the image; and after selection of a second portion of the second processed image, identify text in the second portion of the second processed image, using optical character recognition and an operator window of the first size.