Patent №
US 7,480,411
Granted
2009-01-20
Filed 2008
Owner
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
Lab
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AI components
3
ml · nlp · vision
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
12040946
A system/method is presented for scanning entire books or document all at once using an adaptive process where the book or document has known fonts and unknown fonts. The known fonts are processed through a verification system where sure words and error words are determined. Both the sure words and error words are sent to OCR training where they are re-OCR'ed and repeatedly verified until they meet a predetermined quality criteria. Characters or word not meeting the predetermined quality criteria receive additional OCR training until all the characters and words pass the predetermined quality criteria. Unknown fonts are scanned and clustered together by shape. Outliers in the shapes are manually key-in. Those symbols that are manually classified go to OCR training and then to the known type optimization process.
AI classification
Ownership
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
assignment · 205870582
Assignors
TZADOK, ASAF, WALACH, EUGENIUSZ
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.