Method and system for automatic transcription correction

Details Method and system for automatic transcription correction Method and system for automatic transcription correction

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G06K 9/62 (2006.01) G06K 9/72 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2174258

A method and system for automatically modifying an original transcription produced as the output of a recognition operation produces a second, modified transcription, such as, for example, automatically correcting an errorful transcription produced by an OCR operation. The invention uses information in an input text image of character images and in an original transcription associated with the input text image to modify aspects of a formal image source model that models as a grammar the spatial image structure of a set of text images. A recognition operation is then performed on the input text image using the modified formal image source model to produce a second, modified transcription. When the original transcription is errorful, the second transcription is a corrected transcription. Several aspectsof the formal image source model may be modified; in particular, character templates to be used in the recognition operation are trained in the font of the glyphs occurring in the input text image. When errors in the original transcription are caused by matching glyphs against templates that are inadequately specified for the given input text image, the subsequently performed recognition operation on the text image using the trained, font- specific character templates produces a more accurate transcription. Another image source model modification includes constructing a formal language model, based on a character n-gram technique, that models sequences of character n-grams occurring in the original transcription. In one implementation, the 2D image model is represented as a regular grammar in the form of a finite state transition network.

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