Appeal No. 2004-0717
Application No. 10/099,605 Page 2
BACKGROUND
Appellant’s invention relates to a system and method for
dynamically switching optical character recognition packages. An
understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of
exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced as follows:
1. A method for electronically scanning images of text
documents into memory, comprising:
capturing an image of a document via a scanning device;
presenting an interface configured to enable dynamic
application of a select optical character recognition (OCR)
package, wherein the select OCR package is one of a plurality of
OCR packages;
indicating which of the plurality of OCR packages is the
select OCR package; and
analyzing said image with the select OCR package.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Kobayashi et al. 4,757,551 Jul. 12, 1988
(Kobayashi)
Pearson et al. 5,627,997 May 6, 1997
(Pearson)
Meier et al. 6,058,393 May 2, 2000
(Meier)
Goldberg 6,219,453 Apr. 17, 2001
Lim et al. 6,272,557 Aug. 7, 2001
(Lim)
Claims 1-3 and 5-20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
as being unpatentable over Goldberg.
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