Patent Document ID: 9886629
Application ID: 15138349
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for digitally restoring content from a torn document, the method comprising: obtaining, from a client computing device, an image of a document that has a tear; identifying, by a restoration service executed in a computing environment, portions of the image and a gap region representing the tear in the document, wherein the portions of the image are separated by the gap region; distinguishing, by the restoration service, the gap region from the portions of the image based on a distinction between (i) a first characteristic of pixels included in the portions of the image and (ii) a second characteristic of pixels included in the gap region; identifying, by the restoration service, content in each of the portions of the image adjacent to the gap region, wherein identifying the content comprises identifying characters in the portions of the image by performing optical character recognition (OCR) on the content present in the portions of the image; and incrementally adjusting, by the restoration service, a position of at least one of the portions of the image relative to another of the portions of the image, to reduce separation in the gap region without overlapping the portions, wherein: the position of the at least one portion is adjusted to align the content along a boundary between the portions of the image to form an identifiable sequence of the characters along the boundary, and the adjustment of the position of the at least one portion is based on the first characteristic, wherein the first characteristic is present in pixels included in the at least one portion and in pixels included in the another of the portions of the image.