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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 24, 2019
Applicant:

Kira Inc., Toronto, CA;

Inventors:

Radha Chitta, Toronto, CA;

Alexander Karl Hudek, Toronto, CA;

Assignee:

KIRA INC., Toronto, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00449 (2013.01); G06K 9/00469 (2013.01); G06K 9/6256 (2013.01); G06K 9/6262 (2013.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G06K 2209/01 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20084 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30176 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for extracting of data contained in a fixed format electronic document is disclosed. The method is particularly applicable to extracting data from tables in electronic documents and includes reading, by a computer system, the electronic document as a computer image file; segmenting, by the computer system, the computer image file into document sections representative of distinct portions of data; applying a label to each distinct document section; and executing, by the computer system, an optical character recognition algorithm to convert the image file into computer-readable text, wherein segments of the converted text is associated with a respective label indicative of each distinct document section.


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