International Business Machines Corporation

Alexander Nisenboim

Eugene Walach

Yaakov Navon

Ehud Dov Karnin

Dan S Chevion

A method for computerized processing of paper forms includes receiving an electronic image of a paper form containing text information from a client having a telephone. The text information is extracted from the form using an optical character recognition (OCR) process. A field of the extracted text information that is suspected of containing an error is identified, and a first text message is automatically communicated to the telephone asking the client to verify the identified field. A second text message is received in response to the first text message, and the text information in the field is validated or corrected according to the response.

Data verification using text messaging

A method for image separation of an image, wherein the image includes pixels, and the method includes identifying kernels, whereby characteristics of the kernels are reflected by at least one of the following operators, P(x&#x2212;w,y)&#x2212;P(x,y)&#x3e;t AND P(x+w, y)&#x2212;P(x,y)&#x3e;t; or P(x, y&#x2212;w)&#x2212;P(x,y)&#x3e;t AND P(x, y+w)&#x2212;P(x,y)&#x3e;t; or P(x+d, y+d)&#x2212;P(x,y)&#x3e;t AND P(x&#x2212;d, y&#x2212;d)&#x2212;P(x,y)&#x3e;t; or P(x&#x2212;d, y+d)&#x2212;P(x,y)&#x3e;t AND P(x+d, y&#x2212;d)&#x2212;P(x,y)&#x3e;t, wherein the kernels include at least some of a first group of the pixels. The kernels are associated with a first layer, and pixels that are not associated with the first layer are classified as a second layer. The first layer may be text or graphics and the second layer may be a background. The first layer may be compressed with a high resolution compression technique and the second layer may be compressed with a high lossy compression technique.

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Alexander Nisenboim