ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,728, issued on April 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Automatic text recognition with layout preservation" was invented by Ryan S. Dixon (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject technology include accessing, by an electronic device, a plurality of lines of text data and text attributes corresponding to the plurality of lines of the text data. Aspects may also include, for each respective line of the plurality of lines of the text data, determining whether the respective line and the subsequent line correspond to separate paragraphs within the text data based on a first of the text...