Patent Document ID: 7747495
Application ID: 11552495

Base Claim:
1. A method of doing business by processing a group of documents comprising the steps of: (1) performing optical character recognition from said discrete documents using said device to generate one or more sets of text-based information; (2) classifying at least some of said discrete documents using said sets of text-based information, wherein multiple classification engines are employed and said classifying is based on a consensus of said classification engines; (3) classifying at least some of the discrete documents using Image Based Classification; (4) verifying any of said remaining discrete documents that are not classified in said steps of classifying by employing a Location Diagram with said remaining discrete documents or a portion thereof; (5) collating said at least two of said discrete documents; (6) versioning and sequencing at least two of said discrete documents; (7) locating said fields containing data in said at least two of said discrete documents; (8) extracting data from said fields of said at least two discrete documents to generate extracted data; (9) scrubbing values from said extracted data to generate values therefrom; (10) forming Knowledge Objects; (11) storing said values in a data storage device; (12) forming Business Objects; (13) displaying at least some of said values to a user.

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Claim 6:
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein said step of collating is performed by, or with the assistance of, a computer.