Ncr Corporation

Neil P Boyd

Stewart B Kelland

Hui Wu

A method of processing documents in an image-based document processing system to associate recognition results from a primary source results list with corresponding recognition results from a secondary source results list to improve assistance to an operator of the image-based document processing system during, operation of the image-based document processing system comprises the steps of (a) scanning a first type of document to obtain scanned data representative thereof, (b) scanning a second type of document to obtain scanned data representative thereof, (c) processing scanned data representative of the first type of document to provide recognition results associated with the first type of document, (d) processing scanned data representative of the second type of document to provide recognition results associated with the second document, (e) storing recognition results associated with the first type of document in a primary list, (f) storing recognition results associated with the second type of document in a secondary list, (g) comparing recognition results from the primary list with recognition results from the secondary list to determine if an exact match occurs and thereby to associate a first set of recognition results from the primary list and a first set of recognition results from the secondary list, and (h) comparing recognition results from the primary list with recognition results from the secondary list to determine if an approximate match occurs when an exact match fails to occur in step (g) and thereby to associate a second set of recognition results from the primary list and a second set of recognition results from the secondary list.

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Neil P Boyd