Patent ID: 7110573
Filing Date: 2006-09-19
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A method for automatically processing documents of many different classes and types that are randomly presented to first identify the class of each document, then identify the type of document within an identified class of documents, the method comprising the steps of: (a) capturing a complete representation of an entire document that is presented to be identified; (b) determining a first characteristic for each document presented to be identified using its complete representation captured in step (a), the first characteristic being used to identify one class of document from another class of document; (c) retrieving a set of second characteristics for each document presented to be identified whose complete representation is captured in step (a) and whose class of document is identified in step (b), the second set of characteristics being used to identify the type of document from amongst the class of documents identified in step (b); and (d) analyzing individual characteristics from the second set of characteristics retrieved in step (c) with characteristics actually in the complete document representation captured in step (a) to identify the type of document from amongst the class of documents identified in step (b);