Forms recognition management system and method
Patent 5394487 Issued on February 28, 1995. Estimated Expiration Date: 
October 27, 2013. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
October 27, 2013. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.Patent ReferencesMethod for automatic recognition of white blocks as well as text, graphics and/or gray image areas on a printed master Picture processing apparatus Optical character isolation system, apparatus and method Method of storing and retrieving image data Document analysis system Document recognition and automatic indexing for optical character recognition Patent #: 4949392 InventorsApplicationNo. 141734 filed on 10/27/1993US Classes:382/209, Template matching (e.g., specific devices that determine the best match)382/228Statistical decision processExaminersPrimary: Mancuso, JosephAssistant: Del Rosso, G. Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassG06K 009/20AbstractDocument form templates are grouped into groups of related form templates. The number of times a particular template is used by the system is counted for each group during a forms processing interval. Then when processing submitted forms, the method scans in a plurality of them in an aggregated submission. Forms recognition processing starts for a first form. The method begins searching for a form template to match the first form, starting with the most frequent group. If recognition of the first form is successful with the most frequent primary form template, then the method searches the group for the remaining submitted forms. If recognition of the first form is not successful with the most frequent group, then the method tries to match the first form with a template in the second most frequently processed primary group. In this manner, forms recognition of preprinted forms is managed, with the order of searching the template changed, in response to the frequency with which particular form types are processed.Other References
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