Systems, methods and computer program products for determining document validity
First Claim
Patent Images
1. A method, comprising:
- performing optical character recognition (OCR) on an image of the first document; and
identifying, in the image of the first document, one or more of;
textual information specific to a sender of the first document; and
data formatting specific to the sender at least one of;
correcting OCR errors in the first document using at least one of textual information from a complementary document and predefined business rules;
normalizing data from the complementary document using at least one of textual information from the first document and the predefined business rules; and
normalizing data from the first document using at least one of textual information from the complementary document and the predefined business rules.
8 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A method according to one embodiment includes performing optical character recognition (OCR) on an image of a first document; and at least one of: correcting OCR errors in the first document using at least one of textual information from a complementary document and predefined business rules; normalizing data from the complementary document using at least one of textual information from the first document and the predefined business rules; and normalizing data from the first document using at least one of textual information from the complementary document and the predefined business rules. Additional systems, methods and computer program products are also presented.
83 Citations
19 Claims
-
1. A method, comprising:
-
performing optical character recognition (OCR) on an image of the first document; and identifying, in the image of the first document, one or more of;
textual information specific to a sender of the first document; and
data formatting specific to the sender at least one of;correcting OCR errors in the first document using at least one of textual information from a complementary document and predefined business rules; normalizing data from the complementary document using at least one of textual information from the first document and the predefined business rules; and normalizing data from the first document using at least one of textual information from the complementary document and the predefined business rules. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
-
-
8. A method, comprising at least one of:
-
correcting OCR errors in a first document, and normalizing data from the first document based at least in part on a complementary document, wherein the data are normalized prior to determining a validity of the first document; normalizing data from the complementary document using at least one of textual information from the first document and predefined business rules; and outputting an indication of the determined validity. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
-
-
14. A method, comprising:
-
performing optical character recognition (OCR) on a scanned image of a first document; extracting an identifier from the first document; identifying a complementary document associated with the first document using the identifier; obtaining textual information of the complementary document; generating a list of hypotheses mapping the first document to the complementary document using; textual information from the first document, the textual information from the complementary document, and predefined business rules; determining a validity of the first document based on the hypotheses; and outputting an indication of the determined validity. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16)
-
-
17. A method, comprising:
-
extracting an identifier from an electronic first document; using the identifier to identify a complementary document associated with the first document; obtaining textual information of the complementary document; determining a validity of a first document by simultaneously considering; textual information from the first document, the textual information from the complementary document, and predefined business rules; and outputting an indication of the determined validity. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19)
-
Specification