Patent Document ID: 8908970
Application ID: 13478389

Base Claim:
1. A method for extracting textual information from a document containing text characters using a digital image capture device, comprising: capturing a plurality of digital images of the document using the digital image capture device, wherein all of the digital images include a same document region of the document; automatically analyzing each of the captured digital images using an optical character recognition process to determine extracted textual data for the same document region in each captured digital image; merging the extracted textual data from the plurality of captured digital images to determine the textual information for the document, wherein differences between the extracted textual data for the same document region in the plurality of captured digital images are analyzed to determine the textual information for the document region; wherein the merging of the extracted textual data for the captured digital images includes: analyzing the extracted textual data for the captured digital images to determine corresponding portions of the textual data for the captured digital images, wherein the corresponding portions correspond to the same text characters in the document; analyzing the extracted textual data to identify portions of the textual data for the plurality of captured digital images where the textual data extracted from at least one of the captured digital images is different from the textual data extracted from the corresponding portion of another one of the captured digital images; analyzing the differences between extracted textual data for the captured digital images to determine a corresponding portion of the textual information for the document; and wherein the method is performed, at least in part, using a data processor.

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Claim 14:
14. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least some of the processing steps are performed in a data processor in the digital image capture device.