摘要 |
The invention provides methods implemented in an electronic portable device for retrieving information from printed documents and generating highly accurate accountancy forms ready for further processing for presentation to tax authorities. The final information is visualized for the user to validate and utilize. By means of external communication, further added value is provided by web services server means, database, document repository, and web portal. The printed documents are captured by the camera of an electronic portable device, such as a smartphone, and the algorithms of the invention applied to the captured image in order to extract and generate the final accountancy relevant information. Hence the direct dump of data present on printed documents is enabled in order to use that data to fill formatted forms or documents, so the user can easily fill forms, more specifically tax or financial forms, in a direct way. |