Servicenow Canada Inc.

Majid Laali

Jerome Pasquero

Archy De Berker

Olivier Nguyen

Elena Busila

Patrick Lazarus

Tim Beiko

Eniola Alese

Evelin Fonseca Cruz

Minh-Kim Dao

Systems and methods for document analysis. An image containing at least one document is received at a pre-processing stage and the image is analyzed for image quality. If the image quality is insufficient for further processing, this is adjusted until the image is suitable for further processing. After the image quality adjustment, the image is then passed to an initial processing stage. At the initial processing stage, the boundaries of one or more documents within the image are determined. In addition, the orientation of the image may be adjusted and the type of document(s) within the image is determined. From the initial processing stage, the adjusted image is then passed to a data extraction stage. At this stage, clusters of data within the document are determined and bounding boxes are placed around the clusters. Data regarding each of the clusters of data is then gathered.

Data extraction from short business documents

There is provided a 2D document extractor for extracting entities from a structured document, the 2D document extractor includes a first convolutional neural network (CNN), a second CNN, and a third recurrent neural network (RNN). A plurality of text sequences and structural elements indicative of location of the text sequences in the document are received. The first CNN encodes the text sequences and structural elements to obtain a 3D encoded image indicative of semantic characteristics of the text sequences and having the structure of the document. The second CNN compresses the 3D encoded image to obtain a feature vector, the feature vector being indicative of a combination of spatial characteristics and semantic characteristics of the 3D encoded image. The third RNN decodes the feature vector to extract the text entities, a given text entity being associated with a text sequence.

2D document extractor

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Majid Laali