METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POPULATING ELECTRONIC FORMS FROM SCANNED DOCUMENTS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and apparatus for populating an electronic form from an electronic image by a computer.

SOLUTION: The method and apparatus identify a size, orientation and position of an object within the electronic image, and identify information elements from pixels within the image that corresponds to the object. Fields of the electronic form are displayed to a user along with the identified information elements through a graphical user interface. The information elements are parsed into tagged groups of different information types. At least some of the fields of the electronic form are populated with the tagged groups to produce a populated form. The user is allowed to edit the populated fields through the graphical user interface.

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