Patent Document ID: 20030099399
Application ID: 10321099
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for finding a handwritten cursive record on a document using automated searching by a computing system and manual searching by an investigator comprising: scanning all documents containing the cursive records to provide electronic images of each document to the computing system; extracting a snippet image of each cursive record on the documents and identifying each snippet image with its document; automated searching of the snippet images by the computing system to select best matches between a character stroke feature sequence for a query defined by the investigator and snippet images extracted by the extracting act, the best matches forming a candidate list; and manual review of the candidate list by the investigator to find select snippet images from the candidate list that match the query close enough to warrant manual review of the source document for the select snippet images whereby the number of documents that must be manually reviewed to find the cursive record are reduced.