Patent Document ID: 7970213
Application ID: 11804917

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for improving recognition of text present in an image, the method comprising: under the control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions, obtaining multiple processed versions of an image of a text, wherein the multiple processed versions of the image are obtained by applying different operators to the image; obtaining characters and location information of the characters in the text from each of the multiple processed versions of the image, wherein the location information comprises pixel coordinates of the characters in the text; and editing the text based on the obtained location information of the characters to improve the recognition of the text in the image by removing, for each two adjacent words in the text, a space between a first word and a second word based on a horizontal distance between an end of the first word and a beginning of the second word.

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Claim 7:
7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein editing the text further comprises joining two lines of text into a single paragraph of text by: verifying that average heights of the characters in the two lines are within a predefined range of each other; verifying that vertical distances between pairs of vertically aligned characters are less than a function of the larger of the heights of the characters in the two lines; and combining the two lines into a single entity such that a lower line of the two lines is defined to be adjacent to and follows an upper line of the two lines.