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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2012
Applicant:
William C. Janssen, Jr., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventor:
William C. Janssen, Jr., Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATED, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/18 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00469 (2013.01); G06F 17/271 (2013.01); G06K 2209/01 (2013.01);
Abstract
A receipt processing system includes at least one imaging device which generates an image of a paper receipt. At least one processor programmed to acquire the image of a paper receipt from the at least one imaging device, textualize the data from the acquired receipt image, define specific local partial models based on regular expressions and geometric proximity, extract information from the textualized data according to the local partial models, apply rules to the extracted information, and generate receipt data from the application of the rules.