Methods for managing notes, either digital notes or images of physical notes. The methods use optical character recognition to convert handwritten content into characters and icons. The methods also determine sizes of non-square physical notes when imaged by a camera from various angles. For curled notes or damaged notes such as a note missing a corner, the methods detect and process edges of a physical note in an image and, using the detected edges, convert the image of the physical note into a corresponding digital note without curl or damage.

A training method for a handwritten text image generation model includes: obtaining training data including a sample content image, a first sample handwritten text image and a second sample handwritten text image, constructing an initial training model; obtaining a first predicted handwritten text image by inputting the sample content image and the second sample handwritten text image into an initial handwritten text image generation model of the initial training model; obtaining a second predicted handwritten text image by inputting the sample content image and the first sample handwritten text image into an initial handwritten text image reconstruction model of the initial training model; training the initial training model according to the first and second predicted handwritten text images and the first sample handwritten text image; and determining a handwritten text image generation model of the training model after training as a target handwritten text image generation model.

A training method for a handwritten text image generation model includes: obtaining training data including a sample content image, a first sample handwritten text image and a second sample handwritten text image, constructing an initial training model; obtaining a first predicted handwritten text image by inputting the sample content image and the second sample handwritten text image into an initial handwritten text image generation model of the initial training model; obtaining a second predicted handwritten text image by inputting the sample content image and the first sample handwritten text image into an initial handwritten text image reconstruction model of the initial training model; training the initial training model according to the first and second predicted handwritten text images and the first sample handwritten text image; and determining a handwritten text image generation model of the training model after training as a target handwritten text image generation model.

To extract necessary information, documents are received and classified, converted to text, and stored in a database. A request for information is then received, and relevant documents and/or document passages are selected from the stored documents. The needed information is then extracted from the relevant documents. The various processes use one or more artificial intelligence (AI), image processing, and/or natural language processing (NLP) techniques as well as knowledge-based and rule-based techniques.

To extract necessary information, documents are received and classified, converted to text, and stored in a database. A request for information is then received, and relevant documents and/or document passages are selected from the stored documents. The needed information is then extracted from the relevant documents. The various processes use one or more artificial intelligence (AI), image processing, and/or natural language processing (NLP) techniques as well as knowledge-based and rule-based techniques.

A system and method for determining a value of a hand written monetary tip amount on a paper payment receipt is provided. One embodiment scans, using a scanner, a paper payment receipt having a hand written monetary tip amount thereon; generates scan data that corresponds to the scanned paper payment receipt: identifies text from the scan data, wherein the identified text includes hand written text and machine printed text; discriminates the hand written text from the machine printed text; and determines a value of the hand written monetary tip amount based on the identified hand written text.

A system and method for determining a value of a hand written monetary tip amount on a paper payment receipt is provided. One embodiment scans, using a scanner, a paper payment receipt having a hand written monetary tip amount thereon; generates scan data that corresponds to the scanned paper payment receipt: identifies text from the scan data, wherein the identified text includes hand written text and machine printed text; discriminates the hand written text from the machine printed text; and determines a value of the hand written monetary tip amount based on the identified hand written text.

A computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product enhance machine translation of a document. The method includes capturing an image of the document. The document includes a plurality of characters that are arranged in a character layout. The method also includes classifying the image by a document type based on the character layout. The method further includes determining a strategy for an intelligent character recognition (ICR) algorithm with the image based on the character layout of the image. Lastly, the method includes generating a translated document by applying the intelligent character recognition (ICR) algorithm to the plurality of characters in the image using the strategy. The translated document includes a plurality of translated characters that are arranged in the character layout.

A computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product enhance machine translation of a document. The method includes capturing an image of the document. The document includes a plurality of characters that are arranged in a character layout. The method also includes classifying the image by a document type based on the character layout. The method further includes determining a strategy for an intelligent character recognition (ICR) algorithm with the image based on the character layout of the image. Lastly, the method includes generating a translated document by applying the intelligent character recognition (ICR) algorithm to the plurality of characters in the image using the strategy. The translated document includes a plurality of translated characters that are arranged in the character layout.

An image processing apparatus that generates an image for character recognition from a read image includes at least one memory that stores instructions, and at least one processor that executes the instructions to perform extracting of an area of handwritten character information and an area of printed character information from the read image, clipping of a partial image of the area of handwritten character information and a partial image of the area of printed character information out of the read image, and generating of the image for character recognition by combining the partial image of the area of handwritten character information and the partial image of the area of printed character information being associated with each other.