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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1999
Mauritius Seeger, Royston, GB;
Christopher R. Dance, Cambridge, GB;
Stuart A. Taylor, Cambridge, GB;
William M. Newman, Cambridge, GB;
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
An image processing technique for selecting a text region from an image is described. Character and formatting information for each word in the image is used to determine an active region for each word in the image. For a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the character and formatting information is derived during optical character recognition (OCR). A first and last word within a selected text region is identified based on at least one active region associated with at least one word within the selected text region. Using the first and last words within the selected text region, all words within the selected text region are identified. An image of the selected text region may be displayed. Text contained within the selected text region may be copied to an application program.