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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2005
Marco Bressan, La Tronche, FR;
Hervé Dejean, Grenoble, FR;
Christopher R. Dance, Meylan, FR;
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
In a system for updating a contacts database (), a portable imager () acquires a digital business card image (). An image segmenter () extracts text image segments from the digital business card image. An optical character recognizer (OCR) () generates one or more textual content candidates for each text image segment. A scoring processor () scores each textual content candidate based on results of database queries respective to the textual content candidates. A content selector () selects a textual content candidate for each text image segment based at least on the assigned scores. An interface () is configured to update the contacts list based on the selected textual content candidates.