Patent Document ID: 8538964
Application ID: 13314606

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: under control of a computing device having one or more processors with executable instructions, segmenting text in an image of a document into elements, each element representing a character in the text; grouping similar elements into clusters and assigning each cluster an identifier; replacing each element in a cluster of similar elements with the identifier allocated to the cluster of similar elements; ordering the identifiers within the document according to an order of the characters in the text; creating an index of identifiers in the document; receiving a text query and converting the text query into an image of the text query; segmenting the image of the text query into elements and matching each element to at least one cluster using a cluster table, the cluster table comprising mappings between identifiers and element characteristics, at least a first element matching to at least two clusters; replacing each element in the image of the text query with at least one identifier based on the matching to formulate a query defined in terms of identifiers, replacing each element in the image of the text query including replacing the first element with at least two identifiers based on the matching; and searching the index of identifiers using the query defined in terms of identifiers.

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Claim 2:
2. The computer-implemented method according to claim 1 , further comprising ordering the identifiers within the document according to an order of a language of the characters in the text.