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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2018
Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Nankun Huang, San Diego, CA (US);
Carol A. Howe, San Diego, CA (US);
Christopher M. Dye, San Diego, CA (US);
Robert Bamford, San Diego, CA (US);
INTUIT INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
During an image-analysis technique, the system calculates features by performing image analysis (such as optical character recognition) on a received image of a document. Using these features, as well as spatial and grammatical constraints, the system determines a layout of the document. For example, the layout may be determined using constraint-based optimization based on the spatial and the grammatical constraints. Note that the layout specifies locations of content in the document, and may be used to subsequently extract the content from the image and/or to allow a user to provide feedback on the extracted content by presenting the extracted content to the user in a context (i.e., the determined layout) that is familiar to the user.