Patent ID: 7936951

Claim:
A computer-implemented, knowledge-based process for digitizing a set of documents, the documents belonging to a domain, the process comprising using a computer to perform the steps of: (a) loading a set of definitions stored in an XML document, the set of definitions including image type and fields; (b) initializing a knowledge base from a knowledge base library, the knowledge base library having a plurality of knowledge bases categorized by domain, the initialized knowledge base corresponding to the domain of the set of documents and containing information relevant to the domain; (c) providing a document from the set of documents in electronic form to a computer-implemented digitization module, the document having a plurality of records; (d) loading the initialized knowledge base from the knowledge base library into the computer-implemented digitization module; (e) digitizing each record of the document; (f) automatically generating at least one field value using information from the knowledge base; and (g) validating each record of the document against predefined rules and previously digitized results.