Physical and digital bookmark syncing
US10223607B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 14, 2017 |
| Grant date | Mar 5, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 14, 2037 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06V30/10
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: obtaining image data representing page content of a physical book; running a character recognition process to process the image data for providing a text string of machine encoded text corresponding to text of the physical book; identifying within a data repository that stores one or more electronic book a string of text of an electronic book that matches the text string of machine encoded text; and based on the identifying, digitally bookmarking the electronic book.
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