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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2014
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
David Petrou, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Ashok C. Popat, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Matthew R. Casey, Mountain View, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A server system receives a visual query from a client system, performs optical character recognition (OCR) on the visual query to produce text recognition data representing textual characters, including a plurality of textual characters in a contiguous region of the visual query. The server system also produces structural information associated with the textual characters in the visual query. Textual characters in the plurality of textual characters are scored. The method further includes identifying, in accordance with the scoring, one or more high quality textual strings, each comprising a plurality of high quality textual characters from among the plurality of textual characters in the contiguous region of the visual query. A canonical document that includes the one or more high quality textual strings and that is consistent with the structural information is retrieved. At least a portion of the canonical document is sent to the client system.