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US 8,571,317 · App. 13/007,452 · Granted Oct 29, 2013

Systems and methods for automatically processing electronic documents using multiple image transformation algorithms

Inventors: Girish Welling (Nashua, NH); Nirupam Sarkar (Westford, MA); Tushar Mahata (Jersey City, NJ); Vartika Singh (Lawrence, MA); Depankar Neogi (Wilmington, MA); Steven K. Ladd (North Andover, MA)
Assignee: Gruntworx, LLC
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Patent No.
US 8,571,317
App. No.
13/007,452
Granted
Oct 29, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

In a document analysis system that receives and processes jobs from a plurality of users, in which each job may contain multiple electronic documents, to extract data from the electronic documents, a method of automatically pre-processing each received electronic document using a plurality of image transformation algorithms to improve subsequent data extraction from said document is provided. The method includes: electronically partitioning each received electronic document page into pieces; automatically processing each piece of the received electronic document page using each of a plurality of image pre-processing algorithms to produce a plurality of image variations of each piece; and analyzing the outputs of subsequent processing and data extraction, on each of the image variations of the pieces to determine which output is best, from the plurality of outputs for each piece.

Claims (4)

1. In a document analysis system that receives and processes jobs from a plurality of users, in which each job may contain multiple electronic documents, to extract data from the electronic documents, a method of automatically pre-processing each received electronic document using a plurality of image transformation algorithms to improve subsequent data extraction from said document, the method comprising:

electronically partitioning each received electronic document page into pieces;

automatically processing each piece of the received electronic document page using each of a plurality of image pre-processing algorithms to produce a plurality of image variations of each piece; and

analyzing the outputs of subsequent processing and data extraction, on each of the image variations of the pieces to determine which output is best, from the plurality of outputs for each piece.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 4, 2012
From: COPANION, INC.
To: GRUNTWORX, LLC
Reel/Frame 028157/0982 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 9, 2012
From: COPANION, INC.
To: GRUNTWORX, LLC
Reel/Frame 027676/0596 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 26, 2011
From: WELLING, GIRISH; SARKAR, NIRUPAM; MAHATA, TUSHAR; SINGH, VARTIKA; NEOGI, DEPANKAR; LADD, STEVEN K.
To: COPANION, INC.
Reel/Frame 026651/0209 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 61295210 · Jan 15, 2010
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