AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR VISUAL TEXT INTERPRETATION

摘要

An electronic device (700) captures an image (105, 725) that includes textual information having captured words that are organized in a captured arrangement. The electronic device performs optical character recognition (OCR) (110, 730) in a portion of the image to form a collection of recognized words that are organized in the captured arrangement. The electronic device selects a most likely domain (115, 735) from a plurality of domains, each domain having an associated set of domain arrangements, each domain arrangement comprising a set of feature structures and relationship rules. The electronic device forms a structured collection of feature structures (120, 740) from the set of domain arrangements that substantially matches the captured arrangement. The electronic device organizes the collection of recognized words (125, 745) according to the structured collection of feature structures into structured domain information. The electronic device uses the structured domain information (130) in an application that is specific to the domain (750-760).