Patent ID: 8270721

Claim:
A method for acquiring data from a non-transitory machine-readable or computer-readable document for assignment to fields of a database, comprising the steps of: extracting individual data substantially automatically from the non-transitory machine-readable or computer-readable document and entering the extracted data into the corresponding database fields; determining if any of the individual data cannot be extracted from the non-transitory machine-readable or computer-readable document with a desired degree of reliability for one or more particular database fields; and if data cannot be extracted from the document with the desired degree of reliability for one or more particular database fields, executing the steps of displaying the non-transitory machine-readable or computer-readable document on a display screen, displaying on the display screen the one or more database fields for which the data cannot be extracted with said desired degree of reliability, and executing a proposal routine with which string sections in a vicinity of a pointer movable by a user on the display screen are selected, marked, and proposed for extraction.