Patent ID: 9396389
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: G06K

Claim Text:
1. A method of using a mobile processing apparatus to process check marks in a document having pre-formatted fields for entering the check marks, the method comprising: using a digital camera associated with the apparatus to produce a first electronic file containing a 2D digitized image of the document; and using the apparatus for: (a) in the first file, detecting identifiers of the document and markers identifying location and orientation of portions containing the pre-formatted fields; (b) producing a second file wherein the 2D digitized image is modified to match a digital template of the document; (c) using the digital template for electronically extracting digitized images of the pre-formatted fields from the second file; and (d) detecting presence of the check marks in the digitized images of the pre-formatted fields based on analysis therein of non-background pixels.