Patent ID: 11860865
Assignee: KOFAX, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computer system to extract contender values as positively associated with a pre-defined value from a compilation of one or more electronically stored documents, the system comprising:
one or more computer readable storage devices configured to store:
one or more software modules including computer executable instructions; and
the compilation;

one or more hardware computer processors in communication with the one or more computer readable storage devices and configured to execute the one or more software modules in order to cause the computer system to:
access, from the one or more computer readable storage devices, the compilation;
receive information regarding the pre-defined value, wherein the predefined value has a certain two-dimensional spatial relationship to words in a pre-selected page;
for each page of the compilation:
identify words and contender values on a subject page;
group the identified words and the identified contender values into anchor blocks; and
on the subject page, for each of the identified contender values, numerically determine one or more confidence values, wherein each confidence value independently indicates whether or not the subject contender value is associated with the pre-defined value, wherein the one or more confidence values comprise at least one additional confidence value, wherein the at least one additional confidence value is determined based at least in part on a comparison of a format of the contender value with a format of the pre-defined value;

over one or more of the pages of the compilation: extract positive contender values as positively associated with the pre-defined value based at least in part on the one or more confidence values; and either:
store the positive contender values in the one or more computer readable storage devices; or
transmit the positive contender values to a user workstation.