Automatic data capture of desired data fields and generation of metadata based on captured data fields

Abstract

An approach is provided for generating parsing rules that automatically identify attributes and attribute values from documents and generates metadata mapping information that is associated with electronic versions of documents processed. A graphical user interface (GUI) is displayed on a client device that contains a sample document containing field labels and field values, which represent attributes and attribute values. The GUI is configured to receive a first set of inputs identify field labels and field values. In response to receiving the first set of inputs, parsing rules are generated that define the relationships between the field labels and corresponding field values. A second set of inputs are received that include a selection of a subset of the parsing rules to generate metadata mapping that maps a subset of the field values to display labels. The metadata mapping is associated to a document library that manages views of the destination folder such that the parsing rules and the metadata mapping are applied to each document routed to the destination folder.