Mobile terminals and methods for generating electronic documents for the same
View Patent ↗A method of generating an electronic document for mobile terminals is described. The method includes: obtaining a target image to be scanned and recognized; performing image and text scanning and recognition on the target image and obtaining a scanning and recognition result; generating an electronic document based on the scanning and recognition result. A mobile terminal is also described. According to the method, a user can generate electronic documents from information of interest to the user whenever and wherever, using a mobile terminal, thereby greatly enhancing the capability of the user to obtain information while traveling.
1. A mobile terminal of comprising:
a target image obtaining module, configured to obtain a target image to be scanned and recognized,
a scanning and recognition module, configured to obtain a scanning and recognition result in accordance with the target image, and
an electronic document generating module, configured to obtain an electronic document in accordance with the scanning and recognition result,
wherein the electronic document generating module comprises at least one of:
a document generating unit, configured to generate the electronic document in accordance with the scanning and recognition result, and
an electronic document generating communication unit, configured to send an electronic document generating request comprising the scanning and recognition result to a server or another terminal, and to receive from the server or the other terminal the electronic document generated by the server or the other terminal in accordance with the scanning and recognition result.
2. A mobile terminal comprising:
a target image obtaining module, configured to obtain a target image to be scanned and recognized,
a scanning and recognition module, configured to obtain a scanning and recognition result in accordance with the target image,
an electronic document generating module, configured to obtain an electronic document in accordance with the scanning and recognition result, and
an editing module, configured to display the scanning and recognition result, and to edit the scanning and recognition result in accordance with one or more edit operations obtained from a user.
3. The mobile terminal of claim 2 , wherein the editing module comprises:
a comparison displaying unit, configured to display a comparison interface comparing the scanning and recognition result of the target image to the target image,
an edit operation obtaining unit, configured to obtain from the user the one or more edit operations specific to the scanning and recognition result, and
an editing unit, configured to edit the scanning and recognition result in accordance with the one or more edit operations obtained by the edit operation obtaining unit.
4. A method of generating an electronic document for a mobile terminal, the method comprising:
obtaining a target image to be scanned and recognized,
obtaining a scanning and recognition result in accordance with the target image, and
generating the electronic document in accordance with the scanning and recognition result, wherein obtaining the scanning and recognition result comprises:
calling an algorithm for OCR to recognize text in the target image an obtain text information therefrom,
recording typeset position of the text in the target image, and
typesetting the text information in accordance with the recorded typeset position of the corresponding text in the target image.
5. A method of generating an electronic document for a mobile terminal, the method comprising:
obtaining a target image to be scanned and recognized,
obtaining a scanning and recognition result in accordance with the target image,
displaying the scanning and recognition result,
editing the scanning and recognition result in accordance with one or more edit operations obtained from a user, and
generating the electronic document in accordance with the edited scanning and recognition result,
wherein obtaining the scanning and recognition result comprises calling an algorithm for OCR to recognize text in the target image and obtain text information therefrom, and editing the scanning and recognition result comprises editing the text information obtained from the target image.
6. The method of claim 5 , wherein editing the scanning and recognition result comprises:
displaying a comparison interface comparing the scanning and recognition result of the target image to the target image,
obtaining from the user the one or more edit operations specific to the scanning and recognition result, and
editing the scanning and recognition result in accordance with the obtained one or more edit operations.
7. A method of generating an electronic document for a mobile terminal, the method comprising:
receiving from the mobile terminal a scanning and recognition request comprising a target image,
obtaining a scanning and recognition result in accordance with the target image, and
sending the scanning and recognition result to the mobile terminal, thereby allowing the mobile terminal to generate the electronic document in accordance with the scanning and recognition result.
8. The method of claim 7 , wherein obtaining the scanning and recognition result comprises:
obtaining the scanning and recognition result from another terminal.
9. The method of claim 7 comprising, after receiving the scanning and recognition request and before obtaining the scanning and recognition result,
verifying that the mobile terminal has authority to obtain the scanning and recognition result.
10. The method of claim 7 , wherein obtaining the scanning and recognition result comprises:
calling an algorithm for OCR to recognize text in the target image and obtain text information therefrom.
11. The method of claim 7 comprising, after sending the scanning and recognition result to the mobile terminal,
receiving from the mobile terminal an electronic document generating request comprising an edited scanning and recognition result,
obtaining an electronic document in accordance with the edited scanning and recognition result, and
sending the obtained electronic document to the mobile terminal.
12. The method of claim 11 , wherein obtaining the electronic document comprises:
obtaining from another terminal the electronic document generated by the other terminal in accordance with the scanning and recognition result.
13. The method of claim 11 comprising, after receiving the electronic document generating request and before obtaining the electronic document,
verifying that the mobile terminal has authority to obtain the electronic document.
14. A mobile terminal comprising:
a target image obtaining module, configured to obtain a target image to be scanned and recognized,
a scanning and recognition module, configured to obtain a scanning and recognition result in accordance with the target image, and
an electronic document generating module, configured to obtain an electronic document in accordance with the scanning and recognition result,
wherein the scanning and recognition module comprises at least one of:
a text recognition unit, configured to call an algorithm for OCR to recognize text in the target image and to obtain text information therefrom, and
a scanning and recognition communication unit, configured to send a scanning and recognition request comprising the target image to a server or another terminal, and to receive the scanning and recognition result sent from the server or the other terminal.
15. The mobile terminal of claim 14 , wherein the scanning and recognition module comprises:
a typeset position recording unit, configured to record typeset position of the text in the target image, and
a typesetting unit, configured to typeset the text information obtained by the text recognition unit in accordance with the typeset position of the corresponding text in the target image as recorded by the typeset position recording unit.
16. A mobile terminal comprising:
a target image obtaining module, configured to obtain a target image to be scanned and recognized,
a scanning and recognition module, configured to obtain a scanning and recognition result in accordance with the target image, and
an electronic document generating module, configured to obtain an electronic document in accordance with the scanning and recognition result,
wherein the target image obtaining module comprises at least one of:
an image selecting unit, configured to obtain at least one image selected by a user from an image library in the mobile terminal, and
an image scanning unit, configured to obtain an image being currently obtained by the mobile terminal and treat the image as the target image for scanning and recognition.