Patent ID: 9092690
Filing Date: 2015-07-28
Classification: G06K,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for capturing information from payment instruments, comprising: receiving, using one or more computing devices, an image of a back side of a payment card, the payment card comprising information imprinted thereon such that the imprinted information protrudes from a front side of the payment card and the imprinted information is indented into the back side of the payment instrument; extracting, using the one or more computing devices, sets of characters from the image of the back side of the payment card based on the imprinted information indented into the back side of the payment card and depicted in the image of the back side of the payment card; applying, using the one or more computing devices, a first character recognition application to process the sets of characters extracted from the image of the back side of the payment card; and categorizing, using the one or more computing devices, each of the sets of characters into one of a plurality of categories relating to information required to conduct a payment transaction.