METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING DOCUMENTS

• US 20140310583A1
• Filed: 04/10/2013
• Published: 10/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Piratla, Nischal M., Gajera, Rinku, Ponnavaikko, Kovendhan, Pettit, Mark
• Granted Patent: US 9,384,180 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates

Abstract

The present disclosure describes a method and system for processing forms filled by a user. The system includes a scanner configured to scan a first form in a first language that includes one or more fillable fields filled with content; a content extractor configured to extract content from the scanned filled fields; a content processor configured to process the extracted content; and an embedding module configured to embed the processed content into a second form including one or more fields corresponding to the fillable fields of the first form.

Claims

1. A document processing system comprising:

a scanner configured to scan a first form in a first language, including one or more fillable fields filled with content;

a content extractor configured to extract content from the scanned filled fields;

a content processor configured to process the extracted content; and

an embedding module configured to embed the processed content into a second form including one or more fields corresponding to the fillable fields of the first form.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the content processor includes a content rebuilder to rebuild lost content.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the content processor includes a scaling module configured to:

compare content size to the available space defined by the one or more fields; and

scaling the extracted content or the image to accommodate the space.

4. The system of claim 1 further comprising a database, which stores a plurality of user profiles and one or more forms.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the embedding module includes:

a merge module configured to merge multiple images into a single combined image.

6. The system of claim 1 further comprising a transceiver configured to send a plurality of forms to a remote processing system.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the content extractor is configured to extract a difference in content between the filled first form and an un-filled first form.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the content rebuilder is configured to rebuild the lost content in the scanned form based on the difference of the content by using a broken stroke reconstruction algorithm.

8. The system of claim 8, wherein the content extractor includes a match-lifting algorithm.

10. A method for processing documents at a document processing system, the method comprising:

scanning a first form in a first language including one or more fillable fields with content;

extracting content from the scanned filled fields;

processing the extracted content; and

embedding the processed content into a second form including one or more fields corresponding to the fillable fields of the first form.

11. A method of claim 10, wherein processing the content includes rebuilding lost content.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the content is extracted using a match-lifting algorithm.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein extracting the content comprises extracting a difference in content between the filled first form and an un-filled first form.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein processing the content further comprises rebuilding the lost content in the scanned form by using a broken stroke reconstruction algorithm.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein processing the content further comprises scaling the content to correspond to the size of the corresponding field in the second form.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein embedding the extracted content into a second form comprises merging the extracted content with the second form.

17. The method of claim 16 further comprising printing the second form comprising the embedded content.

18. The method of claim 10 further comprising comparing pixel height of the content for each field and scaling the content for the one or more fields to a common pixel height.

27. The method of claim 14, wherein overlaying or merging comprises merging the secondary image with the primary image to define a combined image.

28. The method of claim 27 further comprising printing the combined image.

19. A method of processing documents at a document processing system, the method comprising:

scanning a first form in a first language that includes one or more fillable fields filled with content;

extracting content from the filled fields to define a secondary image;

overlaying or merging the secondary image with a primary image to define a combined image, wherein the primary image comprises a second form with fillable fields corresponding to the fields of the first form.

20. A method of claim 19 further comprising processing the secondary image to rebuild lost content.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein extracting the content comprises extracting a difference in content between the filled first form and an un-filled first form.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the content is extracted using a match-lifting algorithm.

23. The method of claim 19, wherein processing the content comprises rebuilding lost content from the secondary image.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the rebuilding includes using a broken stroke reconstruction algorithm.

25. The method of claim 23 further comprising scaling the rebuilt content of the secondary image to fit the fields of the second form.

26. The method of claim 23 further comprising comparing pixel height of the rebuilt content in each field and scaling the rebuilt content to a common pixel height.