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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2010
David J. Snow, San Diego, CA (US);
Brian W. Farwell, Oceanside, CA (US);
Amir Eftekhari, San Diego, CA (US);
Carol A. Howe, San Diego, CA (US);
David J. Snow, San Diego, CA (US);
Brian W. Farwell, Oceanside, CA (US);
Amir Eftekhari, San Diego, CA (US);
Carol A. Howe, San Diego, CA (US);
Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A technique for providing feedback about an image of a financial document to a user is described. During this feedback technique, the user provides the image of a financial document, such as W-2 form. For example, the user may take a picture of or may scan the financial document. This image may be analyzed using predefined information in a set of financial documents (such as different types of income-tax documents), and a quality metric for the image may be determined using the analysis. Moreover, the feedback, which is based on the determined quality metric, may be provided to the user. For example, the user may be instructed to retake the image, and the instructions may include an image of the desired orientation and content. In this way, the user may be advised as to how to improve the quality metric in the revised image.