Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for extracting textual as well as tabular data material from financial documents. Initially, a comparison is made to determine the type of data schedule material provided in the document. Subsequently, the character strings of the financial document are compared to character strings provided in previous documents or in various databases. The database of the previous document would include the textual material in a first plane, and the tabular material also in that first plane. If a character string match is made between a new document and an old document, the new tabular data material would be provided in a data matrix in a second plane but the corresponding textual material would not be included in the textual matrix provided in that second plane. Only character strings not matched in the textual material of the first plane would be provided in the textual matrix of the second plane.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for extracting textual as well as tabular data material from financial documents. Initially, a comparison is made to determine the type of data schedule material provided in the document. Subsequently, the character strings of the financial document are compared to character strings provided in previous documents or in various databases. The database of the previous document would include the textual material in a first plane, and the tabular material also in that first plane. If a character string match is made between a new document and an old document, the new tabular data material would be provided in a data matrix in a second plane but the corresponding textual material would not be included in the textual matrix provided in that second plane. Only character strings not matched in the textual material of the first plane would be provided in the textual matrix of the second plane.

Abstract: An improved stuffing horn assembly for a sausage machine includes a center, manifold tube with a rotatable and translatable outer tube mounted thereon. Four branch tubes extend from the outer tube and are positionable by indexing means to provide a pathway for the sausage from the manifold tube through the outer tube and then through one of the four branch tubes. Means are provided for indexing the outer tube and connected branch tubes both longitudinally and rotatably.