Patent ID: 11875397
Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 6:
7. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having stored thereon machine-readable instructions executable to cause a machine to perform operations comprising:
receiving a plurality of images corresponding to an electronic transaction;
performing a preliminary analysis of a first portion of a first image of the plurality of images by:
detecting edges within the first portion of the first image;
computing an aspect ratio for the detected edges based on a first length of a first edge of a first pair of edges in relation to a second length of a second pair of edges; and
determining, based on a comparison of the aspect ratio for the detected edges to stored image information, that the aspect ratio of the detected edges within the first portion of the first image matches an image aspect ratio in the stored image information;

in response to the ratio of the first portion of the first image matching the image aspect ratio in the stored image information:
identifying areas of image noise in the first image, wherein each area of the image noise indicates a potential character of financial information;
segmenting the first image into segments, wherein each segment corresponds to an area of the image noise;
extracting, using optical character recognition on each segmented area of the image noise, portions of the financial information corresponding to each segmented area of the image noise;
sequentially ordering the portions of the financial information;
generating extracted financial information based on the sequentially ordering;
verifying an authenticity of the extracted financial information based on at least the first electronic image and the sequentially ordered extracted portions; and
processing the electronic transaction using the extracted financial information.