Patent Document ID: 8340425
Application ID: 12853461

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: zoning an image of a paginated document to identify text zones; performing first-pass character recognition on the text zones to generate textual content corresponding to the paginated document; re-zoning the image of the paginated document based on the textual content to identify one or more new text zones; and performing second-pass character recognition on at least the new text zones to generate updated textual content corresponding to the paginated document; wherein the method is performed by a digital processor.

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Claim 15:
15. The method as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the re-zoning comprises: identifying in the image of the paginated document a local multiple element configuration comprising a plurality of elements having a defined local positional relationship, the local multiple element configuration (i) including a text zone element and (ii) being repeated multiple times in the image of the paginated document; identifying a further instance of the local multiple element configuration whose text zone element was not identified by the zoning; and identifying a new text zone as the text zone element of the identified further instance of the local multiple element configuration.