Patent ID: 6943923

Claim:
Automatic reading device for a document, equipped with an image capture device which captures an image of the document, the device comprising: a means of reading in the captured image of the aforementioned document a piece of information that is representative of the image; a means of detecting at least one reading guide for the aforementioned document in function of the aforementioned representative piece of information, i) each reading guide being associated to visual characteristics of and/or the semantic content of at least one field of the aforementioned document, ii) each reading guide determining a logical structure of the aforementioned document, that logical structure being independent of the localization of the fields of the aforementioned document; a means of segmenting the image of the aforementioned document into fields, in function of the aforementioned reading guide and the aforementioned logical structure; a means of associating the fields in the aforementioned document to identifiers whose signification is deduced from read information dependent on the aforementioned reading guide and the aforementioned logical structure; a means of extracting data from the aforementioned fields of the aforementioned document; a means of associating the extracted data to the identifiers whose signification is deduced from read data associated to the fields; an a means of transmitting the extracted data and the identifiers whose signification is deduced from read data associated to the extracted data.