Patent Document ID: 7689037
Application ID: 10970930

Base Claim:
1. A method for parsing business card information text from electronically derived text representing an electronically scanned business card, comprising: (a) electronically ordering, using an electronic device, lines of text linearly left-to-right, top-to-bottom; (b) generating, for each line of text having a keyword therein, a terminal symbol corresponding to the keyword therein, the terminal symbol being a member of a pre-defined set of terminal symbols; (c) generating, for each line of text not having a keyword therein and absent of numeric characters, an alphabetic terminal symbol; (d) generating, for each line of text not having a keyword therein and having a numeric character therein, an alphanumeric terminal symbol; (e) generating a string of terminal symbols from the generated terminal symbols; (f) electronically determining, using an electronic device, a probable parsing of the generated string of terminal symbols; (g) labeling each text line, according to a determined function, with non-terminal symbols; and (h) electronically parsing, using an electronic device, the business card information text into fields of business card information text based upon the non-terminal symbol of each text line and the determined probable parsing of the generated string of terminal symbols.

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Claim 20:
20. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a non-terminal symbol represents comment information.