Patents by Inventor Thorsten Wanschura

Thorsten Wanschura has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System and method for increasing the accuracy of optical character recognition (OCR)
    Patent number: 9152883
    Abstract: A system and/or method for increasing the accuracy of optical character recognition (OCR) for at least one item, comprising: obtaining OCR results of OCR scanning from at least one OCR module; creating at least one OCR seed using at least a portion of the OCR results; creating at least one OCR learn set using at least a portion of the OCR seed; and applying the OCR learn set to the at least one item to obtain additional optical character recognition (OCR) results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Inventors: Harry Urbschat, Ralph Meier, Thorsten Wanschura, Johannes Hausmann
  • Methods for Automatic Structured Extraction of Data in OCR Documents Having Tabular Data
    Publication number: 20140369602
    Abstract: Methods to select and extract tabular data among the optical character recognition returned strings to automatically process documents, including documents containing academic transcripts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Ralph Meier, Harry Urbschat, Thorsten Wanschura, Johannes Hausmann
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTION
    Publication number: 20140089302
    Abstract: A system and method for extracting information from at least one document in at least one set of documents, the method comprising: generating, using at least one ranking and/or matching processor, at least one ranked possible match list comprising at least one possible match for at least one target entry on the at least one document, the at least one ranked possible match list based on at least one attribute score and at least one localization score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Inventors: Gennady Lapir, Harry Urbschat, Ralph Meier, Thorsten Wanschura, Johannes Hausmann
  • Method and system for extraction
    Patent number: 8321357
    Abstract: A system and method for extracting information from at least one document in at least one set of documents, the method comprising: generating, using at least one ranking and/or matching processor, at least one ranked possible match list comprising at least one possible match for at least one target entry on the at least one document, the at least one ranked possible match list based on at least one attribute score and at least one localization score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Inventors: Gennady Lapir, Harry Urbschat, Ralph Meier, Thorsten Wanschura, Johannes Hausmann
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING DOCUMENT INFORMATION
    Publication number: 20110103689
    Abstract: A method and system for determining at least one target value of at least one target in at least one document, comprising: determining, utilizing at least one scoring application; at least one possible target value, wherein the at least one scoring application utilizes information from at least one training document, and applying the information, utilizing the at least one scoring application, on the at least one new document to determine at least one value of the at least one target on the at least one new document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Harry Urbschat, Ralph Meier, Thorsten Wanschura, Johannes Hausmann
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING DYNAMIC VARIANCE NETWORKS
    Publication number: 20110106823
    Abstract: A method and system for determining at least one location of at least one target in at least one document, comprising: creating, utilizing at least one localization module, information compiled from at least one training document, the information comprising at least one reference and at least one reference vector tying each reference to the at least one target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Harry Urbschat, Ralph Meier, Thorsten Wanschura, Johannes Hausmann
  • System and method for increasing the accuracy of optical character recognition (OCR)
    Publication number: 20110103688
    Abstract: A system and/or method for increasing the accuracy of optical character recognition (OCR) for at least one item, comprising: obtaining OCR results of OCR scanning from at least one OCR module; creating at least one OCR seed using at least a portion of the OCR results; creating at least one OCR learn set using at least a portion of the OCR seed; and applying the OCR learn set to the at least one item to obtain additional optical character recognition (OCR) results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Harry Urbschat, Ralph Meier, Thorsten Wanschura, Johannes Hausmann
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTION
    Publication number: 20110078098
    Abstract: A system and method for extracting information from at least one document in at least one set of documents, the method comprising: generating, using at least one ranking and/or matching processor, at least one ranked possible match list comprising at least one possible match for at least one target entry on the at least one document, the at least one ranked possible match list based on at least one attribute score and at least one localization score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Inventors: Gennady LAPIR, Harry URBSCHAT, Ralph MEIER, Thorsten WANSCHURA, Johannes HAUSMANN