SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WHOLE WORD CONVERSION OF TEXT IN IMAGE

The disclosed invention provides system and method for whole word conversion of text in an image. The system and method may convert the text in the image into Unicode strings. The system and method utilizes comparable features of word segments that are extracted from the text in the image. The comparable features of the word segments are created by mirroring comparable features of word templates stored in a conversion database. Word templates in the database are filtered by comparing the comparable features of the word segments with comparable features of the word templates in the database. The word segments are correlated to matching word candidates. Word confusion networks are constructed with the matching word candidates, and the word confusion networks are evaluated to output matching words for the word segments. This system and method reduce the search space in the database improving search efficiency.