1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: displaying an image, captured by a camera of a computing device, on a display element of the computing device; analyzing the image to locate a region of text in the image; recognizing text within the region with an optical character recognition (OCR) engine, the OCR engine providing an output of recognized text including characters grouped by one or more text lines; analyzing the one or more text lines to isolate a character string indicative of at least one of a phone number, an email address, or a uniform resource locator (URL), each character of the isolated character string being assigned to a character class to produce a character class string; based at least in part on a pattern of the character class string, determining a matching score for the isolated character string with respect to at least one of a phone number, an email address, or a URL, the isolated character string being identified as the at least one of a phone number, an email address, or a URL if the matching score is greater than a threshold score, wherein determining the matching store comprises assigning costs to edits made to the character class string, wherein a cost associated with mistaking characters that are similar in appearance is small and the cost associated with mistaking characters that are relatively different in appearance is greater than a threshold value; determining an overlay template and respective functionality for the at least one of a phone number, an email address, or a URL; and displaying the isolated character string on the display element using the overlay template as an overlay element in a live field of view being captured by the camera, the overlay element including at least one user-selectable element enabling the respective functionality associated with the at least one of a phone number, an email address, or a URL to be performed.
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: displaying an image, captured by a camera of a computing device, on a display element of the computing device; analyzing the image to locate a region of text in the image; recognizing text within the region with an optical character recognition (OCR) engine, the OCR engine providing an output of recognized text including characters grouped by one or more text lines; analyzing the one or more text lines to isolate a character string indicative of at least one of a phone number, an email address, or a uniform resource locator (URL), each character of the isolated character string being assigned to a character class to produce a character class string; based at least in part on a pattern of the character class string, determining a matching score for the isolated character string with respect to at least one of a phone number, an email address, or a URL, the isolated character string being identified as the at least one of a phone number, an email address, or a URL if the matching score is greater than a threshold score, wherein determining the matching store comprises assigning costs to edits made to the character class string, wherein a cost associated with mistaking characters that are similar in appearance is small and the cost associated with mistaking characters that are relatively different in appearance is greater than a threshold value; determining an overlay template and respective functionality for the at least one of a phone number, an email address, or a URL; and displaying the isolated character string on the display element using the overlay template as an overlay element in a live field of view being captured by the camera, the overlay element including at least one user-selectable element enabling the respective functionality associated with the at least one of a phone number, an email address, or a URL to be performed. 2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein various costs to various edits are provided in an N by M matrix where N represents a number possible ASCII characters and M represents a number of possible character classes.