Appeal No. 1998-0669 Page 2
Application No. 08/507,194
BACKGROUND
The invention at issue in this appeal relates to optical
character recognition (OCR) of an image of a document.
Although OCR software can differentiate areas of a document as
containing character data, figure data, and table data, the
software stores the different types of recognized data in a
single file. Storage in the same file impedes the use of the
different software needed to process each type of data.
Furthermore, articles from a newspaper or magazine often
comprise blocks of data extending over multiple columns and
having a complex shape. Storing optically recognized data in
such a format wastes space.
The invention at issue recognizes character data, figure
data, and table data in an image of a document and stores the
recognized data in separate files. Such a storage arrangement
simplifies retrieval of the data by different types of
software. The invention also rearranges data recognized from
an image of a document into a simpler shape, thereby
conserving storage space.
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