COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS OF IDENTIFYING AN OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCR) FONT TO ASSIST AN OPERATOR IN SETTING UP A BANK REMITTANCE COUPON APPLICATION

• US 20100329537A1
• Filed: 06/25/2009
• Published: 12/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NCR Corporation (NCR Voyix Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NCR Corporation (NCR Voyix Corporation)
• Inventors: Gardi, Michael E.
• Application Number:
  US12/491,771
• Publication Number:
  US 20100329537A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/140
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/40 Software arrangements specially adapted for pattern recognition, e.g. user interfaces or toolboxes therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/945 User interactive design; Environments; Toolboxes
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/10 Character recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/245 Font recognition

Abstract

A computer-implemented method is provided of identifying an optical character recognition (OCR) font to assist an operator in setting up a bank remittance coupon application. The computer-implemented method comprises electronically on a processor reading an OCR font in a zone of the bank remittance coupon, electronically on a processor comparing the read OCR font with an OCR font stored in a look-up table to determine if the read OCR font meets predetermined criteria, and storing the read OCR font into a configuration file to setup at least a portion of the bank remittance coupon application when the read OCR font meets the predetermined criteria.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of identifying an optical character recognition (OCR) font to assist an operator in setting up a bank remittance coupon application, the computer-implemented method comprising:

electronically on a processor reading an OCR font in a zone of the bank remittance coupon;

electronically on a processor comparing the read OCR font with an OCR font stored in a look-up table to determine if the read OCR font meets predetermined criteria; and

storing the read OCR font into a configuration file to setup at least a portion of the bank remittance coupon application when the read OCR font meets the predetermined criteria.

2. A computer-method according to claim 1, wherein comparing comprises (i) comparing a number of valid characters between the read OCR font and the OCR font stored in the look-up table, and (ii) comparing a number of invalid characters between the OCR font and the OCR font stored in the look-up table.

3. A computer-method according to claim 2, wherein the predetermined criteria comprises the number of valid characters being greater than the number of invalid characters.

4. A computer-implemented method of identifying an optical character recognition (OCR) font to assist an operator in setting up a bank remittance coupon application, the computer-implemented method comprising:

electronically on a processor reading an OCR font in a zone of the bank remittance coupon;

electronically on a processor comparing the read OCR font with at least one reference OCR font to determine if at least a certain number of characters from the read OCR font are valid characters; and

storing the read OCR font into a configuration file to setup at least a portion of the bank remittance coupon application when at least a certain number of characters from the read OCR font are determined to be valid characters.

5. A computer-method according to claim 4, further comprising electronically on a processor determining a number of invalid characters from the read OCR font.

6. A computer-method according to claim 5, wherein comparing comprises determining if the number of characters from the read OCR font is greater than the number of invalid characters from the read OCR font.

7. A computer-method according to claim 4, wherein the at least one OCR font is stored in a look-up table of an electronic scanning device.