Patent ID: 9628661
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K,G07D,H04N

Claim:
1. A computerized method for authenticating within seconds, documents having at least one text-containing section, the method comprising: capturing an image of a document to be authenticated from a scanner and enhancing the captured image, including determining a class to which the document belongs; using a processor for identifying and cropping a text-containing section in said image, and on said document as cropped, performing OCR optimized according to at least one template, wherein a template, including metadata defining commonalities of a class of document including a location of at least one zone, informs an OCR engine operating on the document as cropped, where to look for information to be optically recognized, wherein at least one template includes data characterizing a series within a type of document generated by a country, under IR illumination and wherein said at least one template is used to identify at least one document as belonging to at least one known series within at least one known document type stored in at least one document type/series database.