Patent ID: 7584422
Filing Date: 2009-09-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method executed by a computer system, for defining a document format transformation process for automatically transforming documents with a common format, comprising: receiving an example document in a first format; receiving user input indicating an anchor point within the example document and attributes associated with the anchor point, the anchor point indicating a location within the example document and demarcating a region of data at the location, and the attributes defining an operation to be performed on the region of data; associating the anchor point with a position in a central format corresponding to the location of the anchor point in the example document, such that the demarcated region of data is mapped to the central format according to the attributes; defining a document format transformation according to the associating of the anchor point with the position in the central format; storing the document format transformation in the computer system; receiving a similar document in the first format; and automatically transforming the similar document into the central format using the document format transformation.