US Patent Issued to Ancestry.com Operations on Oct. 28 for "Systems and methods for detection and correction of OCR text" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,317, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Ancestry.com Operations Inc. (Lehi, Utah).

"Systems and methods for detection and correction of OCR text" was invented by Masaki Stanley Fujimoto (Provo, Utah) and Yen-Yun Yu (Murray, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "OCR-text correction system and method embodiments are described. The OCR-text correction embodiments comprise or cooperate with a transformer-based sequence-to-sequence language model. The model is pretrained to denoise corrupted text and is fine-tuned using OCR-correction-specific examples. Text obtained at least in part through OCR is applied to the fine-tuned pretrained trans...