10. A method for extracting highlighted regions in a scanned image document, comprising: converting a color space of a scanned image document into an sRGB color space; converting said sRGB color space into a plurality of background image planes and a plurality of mask binary regions; analyzing said plurality of background image planes utilizing at least one mask coordinate, wherein said plurality of background image planes are located beneath at least one mask binary region among said plurality of mask binary regions; and optically recognizing a highlighted text in said at least one mask binary region, by setting pixel values of uniform color pixels within said at least one mask binary region to white and remaining pixels within said at least one mask binary region to black if said plurality of background image planes beneath said at least one mask binary region comprises a uniform color.
10. A method for extracting highlighted regions in a scanned image document, comprising: converting a color space of a scanned image document into an sRGB color space; converting said sRGB color space into a plurality of background image planes and a plurality of mask binary regions; analyzing said plurality of background image planes utilizing at least one mask coordinate, wherein said plurality of background image planes are located beneath at least one mask binary region among said plurality of mask binary regions; and optically recognizing a highlighted text in said at least one mask binary region, by setting pixel values of uniform color pixels within said at least one mask binary region to white and remaining pixels within said at least one mask binary region to black if said plurality of background image planes beneath said at least one mask binary region comprises a uniform color. 19. The method of claim 10 further comprising: extracting said highlighted text from said at least one mask region utilizing a 4-connected seed fill operation.