International Business Machines Corporation
Processing scanned documents

Abstract:

Embodiments include methods, system and computer program products for processing a scanned document. Aspects include obtaining an image of the scanned document and identifying a boundary of a portion of the scanned document, wherein the portion includes at least partially obscured text. Aspects also include performing optical character recognition on the image of the scanned document to extract text from the document. Aspects further include performing additional processing on the text extracted from inside the portion of the document.