Patent Document ID: 9218579
Application ID: 13870006
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for retrieving information from an original image, the method comprising: modifying one or more image characteristics of the original image to degrade the original image; providing the degraded original image as a first task to at least one first remote worker, wherein the first task comprises metadata that comprises information pertaining to one or more regions of interest that are to be tagged by the at least one first remote worker, and wherein the information in the one or more regions of interest is not retrievable by the at least one first remote worker; receiving the one or more tagged regions of interest in response to the first task; cropping one or more portions from the original image, wherein the coordinates of the one or more portions are same as the coordinates of the one or more tagged regions of interest in the degraded original image, received from the at least one first remote worker; providing the one or more cropped portions as one or more second tasks to at least one second remote worker, wherein the one or more second tasks correspond to an activity of retrieving character information from the one or more cropped portions, wherein the at least one first remote worker is different from the at least one second remote workers, wherein the method is performed by one or more processors.