Patent Document ID: 8892579
Application ID: 13456949

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a portable digital format (PDF) file; generating a text element file, wherein the text element file comprises one or more text elements of the PDF file and a coordinate location of each of the text elements; searching the text element file for a keyword and a coordinate position of the keyword; identifying the keyword; determining a border of a document-type section with the PDF file, wherein the border of the document-type section comprises the keyword and the coordinate position of the keyword; identifying at least one document-type section of the PDF file relative in coordinate location with the border, wherein the document-type section comprises a content section of the PDF file; determining a document type of the document-type section based on the keyword; selecting a property file according to the document type, wherein the property file comprises at least one property utilized during an extraction of data elements from a version of the document-type section in the text element file, wherein the property comprises a definition of a data element, wherein the property comprises a definition of a data element value, and wherein the property comprises a rule for locating the data element value relative to the data element; and extracting the data element and the data element value from the version of the document-type section in the text element file according to the property.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the property comprises a rule for locating the data element value according to a location of the data element value relative to the coordinate location of the data element.