Ancestry.com Operations Inc.

Peter McCombs

Laryn Brown

Spencer Koehler

Spence Koehler

A city directory, having a listing of names and associated information of residents in a city (or similar location), is digitized. Zones of text having information not useful to users of the digitized directory are removed, and lines of information corresponding to residents are reconstructed, to make the digitized directory more easily accessed and reviewed.

System and method for capturing relevant information from a printed document

Lines of data that are from a historical document, such as a digitized city directory, have information extracted and stored in searchable data fields. Words and phrases within the lines of data are identified and tagged. Rendering rules are applied to the tagged words and phrases to extract names, addresses, occupations, spouse information and other data, and store that data in the searchable fields.

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Orem, UT, United States of America

Peter McCombs