Method and system for a text data entry from an electronic document

• US 8,867,838 B2
• Filed: 09/13/2012
• Issued: 10/21/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Balamurugan, Chithralekha, Roy, Shourya, O'Neill, Jacki, Gujar, Sujit
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Phuoc
• Application Number:
  US13/612,958
• Publication Number:
  US 20140072222A1
• Time in Patent Office: 768 Days
• Field of Search: 382/176, 382/180, 382/190, 382/195, 382/224, 382/305
• US Class Current: 382/180
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/412 Layout analysis of documents structured with printed lines or input boxes, e.g. business forms or tables

Abstract

A method for processing an electronic document is provided. The electronic document includes a plurality of text fields and a text label associated with each of the plurality of text fields. The method includes step of extracting the plurality of text fields from the electronic document. The method includes step of grouping the plurality of extracted text fields to generate a plurality of groups. The method includes step of labeling the plurality of groups based on a first pre-defined criteria to generate a plurality of labeled groups. The method includes step of distributing the plurality of labeled groups in a plurality of queues based on a second pre-defined criteria. The method includes step of transmitting the plurality of labeled groups from the plurality of queues to one or more crowdworkers based on a third pre-defined criteria.

Claims

1. A computer implementable method for processing an electronic document comprising a plurality of text fields and a text label associated with each of the plurality of text fields, the computer implementable method comprising:

extracting the plurality of text fields from the electronic document;

grouping the plurality of extracted text fields to generate a plurality of groups;

labeling the plurality of groups based on a first pre-defined criteria to generate a plurality of labeled groups;

distributing the plurality of labeled groups in a plurality of queues based on a second pre-defined criteria; and

transmitting the plurality of labeled groups from the plurality of queues to one or more crowdworkers based on a third pre-defined criteria.

2. The computer implementable method of claim 1 further comprising erasing the text label associated with each of the plurality of text fields.

3. The computer implementable method of claim 1 further comprising modifying the text label associated with each of the plurality of text fields.

4. The computer implementable method of claim 3, wherein the modifying further comprises one or more of blurring the text label or renaming the text label.

5. The computer implementable method of claim 1, wherein the extracting further comprises splitting the electronic document into a plurality of fragments, each fragment of the plurality of fragments corresponds to one or more of the plurality of text fields.

6. The computer implementable method of claim 5, wherein the splitting further comprises marking a plurality of coordinates corresponding to a periphery of each of the plurality of text fields.

7. The computer implementable method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of extracted text fields are grouped to generate the plurality of groups without disclosing the identity of a user.

8. The computer implementable method of claim 1, wherein the first pre-defined criteria comprises one or more rules corresponding to the labeling of at least one group of the plurality of groups.

9. The computer implementable method of claim 1, wherein the labeling comprises one or more of a security based labeling, a rejection based labeling, and a dependency based labeling.

10. The computer implementable method of claim 9, wherein the security based labeling is performed for the at least one group of the plurality of groups requiring confidential or restricted access.

11. The computer implementable method of claim 9, wherein the rejection based labeling is performed for the at least one group of the plurality of groups based on a probability of rejection, the probability of rejection is determinable based on one or more rejection criteria.

12. The computer implementable method of claim 9, wherein the dependency based labeling is performed for the at least one group of the plurality of groups based on dependency of the at least one group with remaining groups of the plurality of groups.

13. The computer implementable method of claim 1, wherein the second pre-defined criteria defines the distribution of the plurality of labeled groups to the one or more crowdworkers based on the labeling.

14. The computer implementable method of claim 1, wherein the third pre-defined criteria comprises one or more rules that define a delay logic and an intersection dependency logic.

15. The computer implementable method of claim 1 further comprising delaying the transmitting of an at least one labeled group of the plurality of labeled groups from the plurality of queues for a pre-defined time duration.

16. The computer implementable method of claim 1, wherein at least one labeled group of the plurality of labeled groups is transmitted based on a degree of dependency.

17. The computer implementable method of claim 1 further comprising processing the plurality of labeled groups by one or more crowdworkers to generate a processed text field data.

18. The computer implementable method of claim 17 further comprising storing the processed text field data in a database.

19. The computer implementable method of claim 1 further comprising receiving one or more electronic documents from a database.

20. A non-transitory computer readable medium for use with a computer, the non-transitory computer readable medium comprising a computer readable program code embodied therein for processing an electronic document comprising a plurality of text fields and a label associated with each of the plurality of text fields, the computer readable program code comprising:

program instruction means for extracting the plurality of text fields in the electronic document;

program instruction means for grouping the plurality of extracted text fields to generate a plurality of groups;

program instruction means for labeling the plurality of groups based on a first pre-defined criteria to generate a plurality of labeled groups;

program instruction means for distributing the plurality of labeled groups in a plurality of queues based on a second pre-defined criteria; and

program instruction means for transmitting the plurality of labeled groups from the plurality of queues to one or more crowdworkers based on a third pre-defined criteria.

21. A system for processing an electronic document where the electronic document comprises a plurality of text fields and a text label associated with each of the plurality of text fields, the system comprising:

a extraction module configured for;

extracting the plurality of text fields from the electronic document;

generating one or more groups by grouping the extracted text fields;

a distribution module configured for distributing the at least one group to one or more crowdworkers, wherein the at least one group is processed to generate a processed text field data by the one or more crowdworkers; and

a validation module configured to validate the processed text field data.

22. The system of claim 21, wherein the extraction module is further configured to erase or modify the text label associated with each of the plurality of text fields of the electronic document.

23. The system of claim 21 further comprising a labeling module configured to label one or more groups to generate a plurality of labeled groups.