Patent ID: 7231082

Claim:
A method for securely populating a database with textual data contained within a document, the method comprising: assigning a data record identifier to a digital image of the document; segmenting the digital image into at least one image segment containing the textual data and assigning a data field identifier to the at least one image segment; transmitting the image segment, the data field identifier and the data record identifier to a remote data operator for conversion of the textual data into a text string; receiving the text string, the data field identifier and the data record identifier from the remote data operator; determining an elapsed time between when the image segment is transmitted to the remote data operator and when the text string is received from the remote data operator; rejecting the text string if the elapsed time exceeds a predetermined value; and within the database, accessing a data record identified by the data record identifier and, within said data record, inserting the text string into a data field associated with the data field identifier.