Patent ID: 6912308

Claim:
A system for automatically identifying a form or a page in multi-page form, comprising: a digitizing pen; a digitizing tablet, further comprising: a support surface for supporting a form; and means to detect pen stroke data when the digitizing pen is used to enter data in data entry fields on the form placed on the support surface, said pen stroke data having content information that is information requested by the form and location information that indicates the location on the form where the pen stroke data was entered; and form selection means to select an electronic bit image of the form which data was entered on by the digitizing pen by selecting the best match of the location information of the pen stroke data, indicating the location on the form where the pen stroke data was entered, with automatically determined location of a data entry field boundary of each of at least one data entry field in an electronic bit image of at least one form; whereby the system can be used to automatically identify a form being used based on the location information of the pen stroke data.