Patent ID: 8532384
Filing Date: 2013-09-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of enabling a user to retrieve information from a document image, the method including: segmenting the document image to identify a set of image objects within the document image; creating machine readable data structures linking the image objects with metadata fields; applying an automatic algorithm to the image objects so as to assign initial metadata to the linked metadata fields; selecting and user filtering image objects from the set of image objects whose metadata satisfy filtration criteria specified by at least one user, wherein filtration criteria may be varied by the at least one user so as to exclude those user selected image objects from processing; wherein the user filtering of image objects comprises comparing user specified metadata with the linked metadata fields and filtering out image objects for which a match is found; processing a rest of the image objects in the set of image objects so as to group the rest of the image objects into a plurality of subsets, each subset including one or more image objects, wherein the processing is performed subsequent to the user filtering the image objects; presenting the document image, image objects, and metadata to the at least one user; and enabling input from the at least one user so as to manage the image objects, subsets, and metadata.