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Processing of an electronic document, apparatus and system for processing the document, and storage medium containing computer executable instructions for processing the document

  • US 10,255,357 B2
  • Filed: 12/23/2013
  • Issued: 04/09/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for processing an electronic document, which comprises the steps of:

  • extracting information relating to the electronic document via a local database, wherein the electronic document is an electronically scanned optical character recognized preprocessed document;

    extracting the information relating to the electronic document when a predefined condition is met via a super ordinate database, the predefined condition includes a fact that an extraction of the information via the local database does not provide any results or does not provide any good results, the extracting step including the following substeps;

    providing the predefined condition with a fact that a quality is determined for an extraction of the information using the local database;

    comparing the quality with a predefined threshold value; and

    using the super ordinate database to extract the information relating to the electronic document when the quality does not reach the predefined threshold value;

    using information relating to which fields are intended to be extracted to extract the information from the electronic document; and

    determining the information relating to which fields are intended to be extracted using at least one training document.

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