Patent ID: 6880122

Claim:
A system for controlling document region analysis, comprising: a digital document analyzer configured to determine a number of regions on a digital document and a data type for each of the regions, the date type for each region being one of a number of predefined data types; a selection interface for selecting at least one of the predefined data types for further processing; a processing pipeline identifier configured to identify at least one processing pipeline to process each of the regions comprising one of the predefined data types selected in the selection interface, wherein for each respective one of the regions, the processing pipeline identifier identifies a processing pipeline from a plurality of processing pipelines to process the respective one of the regions based upon the predefined data type of the respective one of the regions, and based upon a predetermined destination application; and the processing pipeline identifier being further configured to combine the regions processed by the at least one processing pipeline and to provide the combined regions processed by the at least one processing pipeline to the predetermined destination application.