US Patent 11495038 Digital image processing

A computer-implemented method for processing a digital image. The digital image comprises one or more text cells, wherein each of the one or more text cells comprises a string and a bounding box. The method comprises receiving the digital image in a first format, the first format providing access to the strings and the bounding boxes of the one more text cells. The methods further comprises encoding the strings of the one or more text cells as visual pattern according to a predefined string encoding scheme and providing the digital image in a second format. The second format comprises the visual pattern of the strings of the one or more text cells. A corresponding system and a related computer program product is provided.