Patent Document ID: 9465801
Application ID: 14164074

Base Claim:
1. A Computer implemented method comprising instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and executed on a computing device provided with a hardware processor and a memory, for an automatic processing and management of technical digital documents and drawings, the method comprising steps of: receiving one or more digital files of engineering digital documents and drawings from a plurality of sources, and wherein the plurality of sources is selected from a group consisting of scanners, email servers, applications and receiving one or more digital files of engineering digital documents and drawings using a plurality of methods, and wherein the plurality of methods comprises protocols, and wherein the protocols includes Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDav), and File Transfer Protocol (FTP); creating a queue of the received engineering drawings and documents by creating a record in an incoming database for processing; reading contents of the received one or more digital files to determine a project owning the one or more digital files of the engineering documents and drawings, and wherein the contents include a source of origination, and wherein the one or more digital files comprises a cover letter enclosed by a dispatching agency, one or more drawing files and one or more documents; reading contents of the received cover letter; reading attributes of the one or more drawing files and the one or more documents, and wherein the attributes includes contents provided in a Title Block of Drawings or Cover Page of Documents; identifying attributes of the received one or more digital files using one or more image analysis techniques, and wherein the one or more image analysis techniques is selected from a group consisting of an edge detection technique, a line detection technique, a pattern recognition technique; determining regions on the received one or more digital files for applying an optical character recognition process; identifying an anchor text or anchor image and the anchor text values in the received one or more digital files by performing the optical character recognition and/or pattern matching technique; performing quality checks on the identified attributes in the one or more digital files, dispatch cover sheets and previous transactions, and wherein the quality checks includes performing pattern validation, checking formats of title blocks that are used for creation of drawings, checking wet-signatures, checking hand written text and checking stamps put on the received one or more documents and drawings; performing reconciliation between the identified attributes from the one or more digital files of the engineering documents and drawings and the attributes in the dispatched coversheets, and comparing the reconciliation information with stored information in an Organizational database with respect to a particular project; applying one or more business rules, before accepting the received content and updating the organizational database for project documents; wherein when a fidelity of the data identified from coversheets and/or received one or more digital files is less than a prescribed threshold value and/or missing data points or logical inconsistencies or identified at any point in a process flow, then the relevant data points are referred to a human document controller for validation, verification and error resolution, and wherein the transactions are further processed and executed based on the inputs of the human document controller, and wherein the prescribed threshold value is set by the human document controller.

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Claim 8:
8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the human document controller is a person entrusted with the responsibility of checking all the incoming one or more digital files and the updation of the one or more digital files in the organizational database.