Approaches to text editing

摘要

Certain text editing techniques are provided to enable the user to select a few characters or words from an original collection of text by a limited number of user inputs, such as by touching or swiping a character or word to be edited. Options for probable edits of the original text can be automatically presented to the user in a manner that also only requires a minimal number of user inputs. Such techniques may facilitate text editing that is easier and more convenient for users of portable electronic devices. These techniques may be particularly advantageous for enabling editing of text acquired from an optical character recognition (OCR) process on any computing device. Other text editing shortcuts and similar approaches are also described.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for text editing on a computing device, comprising:
under control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions,
capturing, using a camera of a computing device, a live view of an object including text;determining a set of characters corresponding to the text using an optical character recognition (OCR) process performed on image data corresponding to the live view of the object;displaying on a display component of the computing device, over the live view of the object, the set of characters as one or more first user-selectable elements;receiving a first request to replace at least one character of the set of characters according to a first selection of the one or more first user-selectable elements;determining a plurality of sets of one or more alternative characters with which to replace the at least one character;displaying on the display component one or more second user-selectable elements each corresponding respectively to one of at least a subset of the plurality of sets of one or more alternative characters;receiving a second request to replace the at least one character according to a second selection of one of the one or more second user-selectable elements; andreplacing the at least one character in the set of characters with the one of at least a subset of the plurality of sets of one or more alternative characters corresponding to the second request.