METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EDITING LARGE QUANTITIES OF DATA EXTRACTED FROM DOCUMENTS

摘要

An editing system for editing and verifying data extracted from paper documents or electronic image files comprises an editing subsystem that processes the extracted data for editing according to data type and a validation subsystem. The editing subsystem comprises an automated processing utility that compares extracted data with at least one lexicon to determine if correction is required, a character level editing utility that presents the extracted data at the character level in an editable form for checking and correction at the character level, an element level editing utility for checking and correction at the element level, and a full form element level editing utility for checking and correction at the full form element level. The validation subsystem assists in achieving required accuracy rates and comprises a consistency check utility, an adjudication utility, and an optional statistical verification utility.