Patent Document ID: 9530069
Application ID: 14613279

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: under the control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions, receiving an input image that includes at least one image variation; filtering and segmenting the input image; selecting regions within the filtered and segmented input image having connected components; creating a mask corresponding to the regions of connected components, the mask including bounding boxes that at least partially enclose corresponding regions of the connected components; intersecting the filtered and segmented input image with the mask to produce a first output image; separately processing the filtered and segmented input image corresponding to the mask to create a binary output image; separately recognizing text in the first output image and in the binaryoutput image using an optical character recognizer; and combining the separately recognized text from the first output image and from the binary output image to produce a single output.

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Claim 2:
2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising: separately processing the input image to produce a third output image using a different processing technique than used to produce the first output image and the second output image, the recognized text from the first output image, the second output image, and the third output image being combined using a majority vote process to select portions from the first output image, the second output image, and the third output image.