Patent Document ID: 8155444
Application ID: 11623184
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for converting text, the method comprising: selecting, with a user selectable element, a selection text comprising a first text within an electronic document and a second text within an image located in the electronic document; and converting, by a computer, in response to selecting the selection text, the second text within the image to character information, wherein converting the second text within the image to the character information comprises: receiving the image having an image type and image character information; adjusting an aspect of the received image based on the image type; performing optical character recognition on the adjusted image to extract the character information comprising characters and corresponding location information for the characters on the adjusted image, the location information comprising at least one of the following: a page number, a line number, a paragraph number, a pixel location, and a coordinate within a plane; and evaluating the extracted character information to improve recognition quality of the extracted character information as compared to the second text; and pasting the selection text into another electronic document.