Method and Device for Generating Data from a Printed Document

摘要

A computer implemented method for retrieving information from printed documents and dumping it into formatted documents like forms or templates; the method is mainly aimed to portable and autonomous electronic portable devices furnished with capture means like cameras; therefore the invention is meant but not limited to its implementation in smartphones. The computer implement method of the invention allows the direct dump of data present on printed documents to a computer system 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. It is worth mentioning that the whole method is carried out in the autonomous electronic portable device.

主权项

1. A computer implemented method for generating formatted data for a formatted accounting document comprising formatted fields, the method characterised by:
capturing at least an image of a printed document by means of capturing means of a portable electronic device, selecting at least one area of the document comprising said area data to be extracted by means of an input generated by the user, recognising data from the image by means of an OCR process by means of a processing unit of the portable electronic device, extracting the data from the image by means of a processing unit of the portable electronic device, and assigning the data , by means of a processing unit of the portable electronic device, respective accounting entries for each one of the formatted fields of the formatted document.