Patent ID: 11861922
Assignee: ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A method for extracting target data from a source document, the method comprising:
storing target data extraction rules;
obtaining text recognition data returned from a text recognition process applied to an image of the source document, the text recognition data indicating locations of text structures on the source document;
defining text lines based on the text recognition data by a smallest bounding box surrounding all words satisfying a same-line condition, wherein the same-line condition includes: (a) character heights of the words are within a predetermined percentage, and (b) the words are horizontally aligned;
identifying a reference string from the text recognition data;
selecting a subset of the text lines based on a location of the reference string and the target data extraction rules; and
outputting the subset of the text lines as the target data.