Handheld device for capturing text from both a document printed on paper and a document displayed on a dynamic display device
A device for capturing rendered text is described. The device incorporates one or more visual sensors that receive visual information as a part of capturing rendered text. The visual sensors are collectively capable of capturing both text that is permanently printed on a page, and text that is displayed transitorily on a dynamic device. The device further incorporates a visual information disposition subsystem for disposing of visual information received by the visual sensors. The device further incorporates a package that bears the visual sensors and the visual information disposition subsystem, and is suitable to be held in a human hand.
1. A computer-implemented method to capture data from digital images, comprising:
receiving, by one or more computing devices, an input to capture digital images;
providing, by the one or more computing devices, a user interface that displays instructions to capture digital images;
initiating, by the one or more computing devices, an image capturing module of the one or more computing devices;
receiving, by the one or more computing devices, a digital image from the image capturing module;
determining, by the one or more computing devices, that at least a portion of a set of text in the digital image is readable;
performing, by the one or more computing devices, an optical character recognition algorithm on text in the digital image; and
providing, by the one or more computing devices, a display of at least a portion of the results of the optical character recognition algorithm as an overlay to the digital image on the user interface.
2. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, by the one or more computing devices, an input of an annotation to the digital image; and
communicating, by the one or more computing devices, the annotation with the digital image to a processing system.
3. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining, by the one or more computing devices, that at least a portion of a set of text in the digital image is not viewable; and
providing, by the one or more computing devices, a notification on the user interface to obtain a second digital image.
4. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
providing, by the one or more computing devices, results of the optical character recognition algorithm to a processing system.
5. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are provided in a pop-up menu.
6. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising communicating, by the one or more computing devices, a request to a processing system to initiate a financial transaction in connection with the digital image.
7. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more computing devices comprise a mobile computing device.
8. The computer implemented method of claim 7 , wherein the image capturing module is a function of the mobile computing device.
9. A computer program product, comprising:
a non-transitory computer-readable storage device having computer-executable program instructions embodied thereon that when executed by one or more computing devices cause the computer to capture data from digital images, the computer-readable program instructions comprising computer-executable instructions to:
receive an input to capture digital images;
provide a user interface that displays instructions to capture digital images;
initiate an image capturing module of the one or more computing devices;
receive a digital image from the image capturing module;
determine that at least a portion of a set of text in the digital image is readable;
perform an optical character recognition algorithm on text in the digital image; and
provide a display of at least a portion of the results of the optical character recognition algorithm as an overlay to the digital image on the user interface.
10. The computer program product of claim 9 , further comprising computer-executable instructions to:
receive an input of an annotation to the digital image; and
communicate the annotation with the digital image to a processing system.
11. The computer program product of claim 9 , further comprising computer-executable instructions to:
determine that at least a portion of a set of text in the digital image is not viewable; and
provide a notification on the user interface to obtain a second digital image.
12. The computer program product of claim 10 , further comprising computer-executable instructions to:
provide the results of the optical character recognition algorithm to a processing system.
13. A system to capture data from digital images, comprising:
a storage device; and
a processor communicatively coupled to the storage device, wherein the processor executes application code instructions that are stored in the storage device to cause the system to:
receive an input to capture digital images;
provide a user interface that displays instructions to capture digital images;
initiate an image capturing module of the processor;
receive a digital image from the image capturing module;
determine that at least a portion of a set of text in the digital image is readable;
perform an optical character recognition algorithm on text in the digital image; and
provide a display of at least a portion of the results of the optical character recognition algorithm as an overlay to the digital image on the user interface.
14. The system of claim 13 , wherein the instructions are provided in a pop-up menu.
15. The system of claim 13 , wherein the processor executes application code instructions that are stored in the storage device to cause the system to communicate a request to a processing system to initiate a financial transaction in connection with the digital image.
16. The system of claim 13 , wherein the system comprises a mobile computing device.
17. The system of claim 13 , wherein the processor executes application code instructions that are stored in the storage device to cause the system to communicate the digital image to a processing system in response to determining that at least a portion of the set of text in the digital image is readable.
18. The computer implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
communicating, by the one or more computing devices, the digital image to a processing system in response to determining that at least a portion of the set of text in the digital image is readable.
19. The computer program product of claim 9 , further comprising computer-executable instructions to communicate the digital image to a processing system in response to determining that at least a portion of the set of text in the digital image is readable.