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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 1994
Filed:
Apr. 17, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Timothy S Betts, Germantown, MD (US);
Valerie M Carras, Kensington, MD (US);
Lewis B Knecht, Olney, MD (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382 36 ; 382 40 ; 382 61 ;
Abstract
A data processing method, system and computer program repairs character recognition errors for digital images of document forms. A document form processing template is provided which specifies the identity and preferred sequence for selected, customized character recognition processes and selected, customized coded data error correction processes which are reasonably likely to be needed to automatically process a selected batch of document forms whose fields have certain, anticipated, uniform characteristics.