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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2011
Lever Wang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Glenn Ricart, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Cynthia Ann Thompson, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Keith Wishon, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Sheldon Laube, Los Altos, CA (US);
Lever Wang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Glenn Ricart, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Cynthia Ann Thompson, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Keith Wishon, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Sheldon Laube, Los Altos, CA (US);
Pricewaterhousecoopers LLP, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A document processing system for accurately and efficiently analyzing documents and methods for making and using same. Each incoming document includes at least one section of textual content and is provided in an electronic form or as a paper-based document that is converted into an electronic form. Since many categories of documents, such as legal and accounting documents, often include one or more common text sections with similar textual content, the document processing system compares the documents to identify and classify the common text sections. The document comparison can be further enhanced by dividing the document into document segments and comparing the document segments; whereas, the conversion of paper-based documents likewise can be improved by comparing the resultant electronic document with a library of standard phrases, sentences, and paragraphs. The document processing system thereby enables an image of the document to be manipulated, as desired, to facilitate its review.