11. A system for extracting highlighted regions in a scanned text document, comprising: a data-processing apparatus comprising processor readable code embodied on one or more processor readable storage devices, said processor readable code comprising: a module for converting a color space of a scanned text document comprising a highlighted text within a highlighted region into an sRGB color space by converting said scanned text document into a plurality of background image planes and a plurality of mask binary planes; a module for extracting said highlighted region from said scanned text document by bounding a color of said highlighted region to a highlighted cuboid in said sRGB color space by determining if each background image plane of said plurality of background image planes is a uniform color; and a module for optically recognizing said highlighted text in order to recognize text extracted from said highlighted region of said scanned text document by creating a highlighted region image by setting pixel values of uniform color pixels within said highlighted cuboid to white and remaining pixels within said highlighted region to black.
11. A system for extracting highlighted regions in a scanned text document, comprising: a data-processing apparatus comprising processor readable code embodied on one or more processor readable storage devices, said processor readable code comprising: a module for converting a color space of a scanned text document comprising a highlighted text within a highlighted region into an sRGB color space by converting said scanned text document into a plurality of background image planes and a plurality of mask binary planes; a module for extracting said highlighted region from said scanned text document by bounding a color of said highlighted region to a highlighted cuboid in said sRGB color space by determining if each background image plane of said plurality of background image planes is a uniform color; and a module for optically recognizing said highlighted text in order to recognize text extracted from said highlighted region of said scanned text document by creating a highlighted region image by setting pixel values of uniform color pixels within said highlighted cuboid to white and remaining pixels within said highlighted region to black. 12. The system of claim 11 , further comprising: a module for generating recognized text, in response to optically recognizing said highlighted text; and a module for inserting said recognized text into a new document.