Patent ID: 6760490
Filing Date: 2004-07-06
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
A method for data key-in, comprising:receiving images of documents containing characters; receiving character codes entered by one or more key-in operators, the codes corresponding respectively to the characters in the documents; identifying, for at least some of the character codes, respective areas of the images that contain the corresponding characters, such that each of the areas contains one of the characters; and displaying together a group of the areas of the images responsive to the corresponding character codes, so as to facilitate verification of the codes by a verifying operator,wherein the documents comprise form documents having fields that are filled in with the characters, and wherein receiving the images comprises receiving an image of one of the fields containing a group of the characters, and wherein identifying the respective areas comprises segmenting the image of the field responsive to the keyed-in character codes corresponding to the characters in the field.