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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2013
Cisco Technology Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method including determining a position of each glyph in an image of a text document, identifying word boundaries in the document thereby implying the existence of a first plurality of words, preparing a first array of word lengths based on the first plurality of words, preparing a second array of word lengths based on a second plurality of words of a text file including a certain text, comparing at least part of the first array to at least part of the second array to find a best alignment between the first and second array, deriving a layout of at least part of the certain text as arranged in the image of the text document at least based on the best alignment and the position of at least some of the glyphs in the image. Related apparatus and methods are also described.