4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the characters comprise one or more of: letters, numbers, punctuation, or symbols.
1. A method for transcribing text from an artifact to an electronic file, the method comprising: providing a computer system, wherein the computer system comprises a non-transitory computer-readable storage device; receiving, by the computer system, an image, wherein text is present on the image; analyzing, by the computer system, a first portion of the text; identifying, by the computer system, at a first confidence level equal to or greater than a threshold confidence level, characters representing the first portion of the text; storing, by the non-transitory computer-readable storage device, the characters representing the first portion of the text; analyzing, by the computer system, a second portion of the text; identifying, by the computer system, at a second confidence level below the threshold confidence level, a plurality of candidates to represent the second portion of the text, wherein at least one candidate having a candidate threshold confidence level of the plurality of candidates to represent the second portion of text is identified based on related characters within a data category from two or more records of a plurality of records; and presenting, by the computer system, the plurality of candidates to a user for selection based on the candidate threshold confidence level; wherein the data category comprises compiling the two or more records of a plurality of records into a data category database; and the two or more records of a plurality of records are chosen from a group consists individual records that stored for individual persons, places, and time periods.