Patent ID: 7003489

Claim:
A method for submitting a report from an accounting system to an automated lending system including a server, a local file system being coupled to the accounting system, said method, comprising the steps of: generating at the accounting system a report having at least one of a defined report format and a defined translation service; exporting the report from the accounting system to a local file; submitting the report from the local file system to the server; determining at the server whether the submitted report has the at least one of the defined report format and the defined translation service and the undefined format; and extracting via the server information from the report based on at least one of the defined report format and the defined translation service to generate at least one exhibit to the report, wherein extracting information from the report includes determining whether preprocessing of the report is needed, determining whether segmentation of the report is needed wherein segmentation includes identifying a location of data within the report and relocating data within the report such that the document is recognizable, performing a document recognition process, and performing a mapping and translation process on the report, and wherein the at least one exhibit summarizes selected information included in the report.