Patents Assigned to Kofax, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20140201612
    Abstract: A system for providing a graphical interface to a user includes a server platform and an operating system and application software running thereon. The system includes a client device capable of running a standard web browser that accesses the software application on the server platform for displaying information to the user in a display area on the client device. The web browser displays the information without requiring additional software to be installed, downloaded or run on the client device, and without requiring a scripting language to be enabled in the web browser on the client. The application software facilitates user manipulation of unstructured data in the display area for detailed inspection, and facilitates the user selectively causing to display annotations within the display area. The application software facilitates the user inserting annotations within the display area, thereby causing an action to occur in this system or an external system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: Kofax, Inc.
    Inventors: Karl Buttner, Erich E. Orenchuk, Rakesh Shukla
  • Patent number: 8774516
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an image of a document; performing optical character recognition (OCR) on the image; extracting an address of a sender of the document from the image based on the OCR; comparing the extracted address with content in a first database; identifying complementary textual information in a second database based on the address; and at least one of: extracting additional content from the image of the document; correcting one or more OCR errors in the document using the complementary textual information, and normalizing data from the document prior to determining a validity of the document using at least one of the complementary textual information and predefined business rules. At least one of the aforementioned operations is performed using a processor of a mobile device. Exemplary systems and computer program products are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Kofax, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Amtrup, Anthony Macciola, Steve Thompson
  • Publication number: 20140164914
    Abstract: A method and system for delineating document and/or subdocument boundaries and identifying document and/or subdocument types, the method comprising: automatically generating at least one identifier for identifying which of a plurality of document and/or subdocument images belongs to which of a plurality of categories. The method and/or system optionally may include automatically categorizing a plurality of document and/or subdocument images into a plurality of predetermined categories in accordance with classification rules for said categories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: KOFAX, INC.
    Inventors: Mauritius A.R. Schmidtler, Scott S. Texeira, Christopher K. Harris, Sameer Samat, Roland G. Borrey, Anthony Macciola
  • Patent number: 8749839
    Abstract: Techniques and systems to enhance digital acquisition devices are presented. The enhancements are available to the user in local as well as in remote deployments yielding efficiency gains for a large variety of business processes. The quality enhancements are achieved efficiently by employing virtual reacquisition. The method of virtual reacquisition renders unnecessary the physical reacquisition of analog data in case the digital data obtained by the acquisition device are of insufficient quality. The method and system allows multiple users to access the same acquisition device for analog data. In some One or more users can virtually reacquire data provided by multiple analog or digital sources. The acquired raw data can be processed by each user according to his personal preferences and/or requirements. The preferred processing settings and attributes are determined interactively in real time as well as non real time, automatically and a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Kofax, Inc.
    Inventors: Roland G. Borrey, Mauritius A. R. Schmidtler, Robert A. Taylor, Joel S. Fechter, Hari S. Asuri
  • Publication number: 20140153830
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an image of a tender document; performing optical character recognition (OCR) on the image; extracting an identifier of the tender document from the image based at least in part on the OCR; comparing the extracted identifier with content from one or more data sources; requesting complementary information from at least one of the one or more data sources based at least in part on the extracted identifier; receiving the complementary information; and outputting at least some of the complementary information for display on a mobile device. Exemplary systems and computer program products are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Kofax, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan W. Amtrup, Stephen Michael Thompson
  • Publication number: 20140153787
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes performing optical character recognition (OCR) on an image of a financial document and at least one of: (a) correct OCR errors in the financial document using at least one of textual information from a complementary document and predefined business rules; (b) normalize data from the complementary document using at least one of textual information from the financial document and the predefined business rules: and (c) normalize data from the financial document using at least one of textual information from the complementary document and the predefined business riles. Exemplary systems and computer program products are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Kofax, Inc.
    Inventors: Mauritius A.R. Schmidtler, Roland G. Borrey, Jan W. Amtrup, Stephen Michael Thompson
  • Patent number: 8719197
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products for classifying documents are presented. Systems, methods and computer program products for analyzing documents, e.g., associated with legal discovery are also presented. Systems, methods and computer program products for cleaning up data are also presented. Systems, methods and computer program products for verifying an association of an invoice with an entity are also presented. Systems, methods and computer program products for managing medical records are presented. Systems, methods and computer program products for face recognition are presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Kofax, Inc.
    Inventors: Mauritius A. R. Schmidtler, Roland Borrey, Anthony Sarah
  • Patent number: 8693043
    Abstract: A method and system for delineating document boundaries and identifying document types by analyzing digital images of one or more documents, automatically categorizing one or more pages or subdocuments within the one or more documents and automatically generating delineation identifiers, such as computer-generated images of separation pages inserted between digital images belonging to different categories, a description of the categorization sequence of the digital images, or a computer-generated electronic label affixed or associated with said digital images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Kofax, Inc.
    Inventors: Mauritius A. R. Schmidtler, Scott S. Texeira, Christopher K. Harris, Sameer Samat, Roland Borrey, Anthony Macciola
  • Publication number: 20140079294
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an image of a document; performing optical character recognition (OCR) on the image; extracting an address of a sender of the document from the image based on the OCR; comparing the extracted address with content in a first database; identifying complementary textual information in a second database based on the address; and at least one of: extracting additional content from the image of the document; correcting one or more OCR errors in the document using the complementary textual information, and normalizing data from the document prior to determining a validity of the document using at least one of the complementary textual information and predefined business rules. At least one of the aforementioned operations is performed using a processor of a mobile device. Exemplary systems and computer program products are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Kofax, Inc.
    Inventors: Jan Amtrup, Anthony Macciola, Steve Thompson
  • Patent number: 8677249
    Abstract: A system for providing a graphical interface to a user includes a server platform and an operating system and application software running thereon. The system includes a client device capable of running a standard web browser that accesses the software application on the server platform for displaying information to the user in a display area on the client device. The web browser displays the information without requiring additional software to be installed, downloaded or run on the client device, and without requiring a scripting language to be enabled in the web browser on the client. The application software facilitates user manipulation of unstructured data in the display area for detailed inspection, and facilitates the user selectively causing to display annotations within the display area. The application software facilitates the user inserting annotations within the display area, thereby causing an action to occur in this system or an external system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Kofax, Inc.
    Inventors: Karl Büttner, Erich E. Orenchuk, Rakesh Shukla
  • Publication number: 20140043649
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for routing a facsimile in a computer readable format includes receiving text of a facsimile in a computer readable format; ascertaining one or more of a significance and a relevance of at least a portion of the text by locating one or more keywords in the text, wherein at least two of the keywords are not adjacent in the text; analyzing the text of the facsimile for at least one of a meaning and a context of the text; and routing the facsimile or text thereof to one or more destinations based on the analysis. Additional disclosed embodiments include systems and computer program products configured to similarly route a facsimile in a computer readable format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: KOFAX, INC.
    Inventor: Roy Couchman
  • Publication number: 20140043656
    Abstract: A method for touting a confirmation of receipt and/or delivery of a facsimile or portion thereof according to one embodiment includes generating text of a facsimile in a computer readable format; ascertaining one or more of a significance and a relevance of at least a portion of the text by locating one or more keywords in the text, wherein at least two of the keywords are not adjacent in the text; analyzing the text for at least one of a meaning and a context of the text; and routing at least one confirmation of receipt and/or delivery of the facsimile to one or more confirmation destinations based on the analysis. Additional disclosed embodiments include systems and computer program products configured to similarly route confirmation of receipt and/or delivery of a facsimile or a portion thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Kofax, Inc.
    Inventors: Roy Couchman, Roland G. Borrey
  • Patent number: 8599419
    Abstract: A method for routing a facsimile according to one embodiment includes receiving or generating text of a facsimile in a computer-readable format; routing the facsimile or text thereof to an intended recipient identified by recognizing at least one of a name, an email address and contact information of the intended recipient in the facsimile; analyzing the text of the facsimile for at least one of a meaning and a context of the text; and routing the facsimile or text thereof to one or more other destinations based on the analysis. A method according to another embodiment includes analyzing a pattern of light and dark areas of a facsimile in a computer-readable format; correlating the pattern to one or more forms; and routing the facsimile to one or more destinations based on the correlation, with the proviso that the analyzing, correlating and routing are performed without optical character recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Kofax, Inc.
    Inventor: Roy Couchman
  • Patent number: 8593673
    Abstract: A method for routing a confirmation of receipt of a facsimile or portion thereof according to one embodiment of the present invention includes analyzing text of a facsimile for at least one of a meaning and a context of the text; and routing one or more confirmations to one or more destinations based on the analysis. A method for routing one or more confirmations according to another embodiment of the present invention includes analyzing a pattern of light and dark areas of a facsimile; correlating the pattern to one or more forms; and routing one or more confirmations to one or more destinations based on the correlation. Additional systems and methods are also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Kofax, Inc.
    Inventors: Roy Couchman, Roland G. Borrey
  • Publication number: 20130308832
    Abstract: A method according to one embodiment includes performing optical character recognition (OCR) on an image of a first document; and at least one of: correcting OCR errors in the first document using at least one of textual information from a complementary document and predefined business rules; normalizing data from the complementary document using at least one of textual information from the first document and the predefined business rules; and normalizing data from the first document using at least one of textual information from the complementary document and the predefined business rules. Additional systems, methods and computer program products are also presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: Kofax, Inc.
    Inventors: Mauritius A.R. Schmidtler, Roland G. Borrey, Jan W. Amtrup, Stephen Michael Thompson
  • Publication number: 20130251280
    Abstract: An efficient method and system to enhance digital acquisition devices for analog data is presented. The enhancements offered by the method and system are available to the user in local as well as in remote deployments yielding efficiency gains for a large variety of business processes. The quality enhancements of the acquired digital data are achieved efficiently by employing virtual reacquisition. The method of virtual reacquisition renders unnecessary the physical reacquisition of the analog data in case the digital data obtained by the acquisition device are of insufficient quality. The method and system allows multiple users to access the same acquisition device for analog data. In some embodiments, one or more users can virtually reacquire data provided by multiple analog or digital sources. The acquired raw data can be processed by each user according to his personal preferences and/or requirements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: Kofax, Inc.
    Inventors: Roland G. Borrey, Mauritius A.R. Schmidtler, Robert A. Taylor, Joel S. Fechter, Hari S. Asuri
  • Patent number: 8526739
    Abstract: A method according to one embodiment includes performing optical character recognition (OCR) on an image of a first document; generating a list of hypotheses mapping the first document to a complementary document using: textual information from the first document, textual information from the complementary document, and predefined business rules; at least one of: correcting OCR errors in the first document, and normalizing data from the complementary document, using at least one of the textual information from the complementary document and the predefined business rules; determining a validity of the first document based on the hypotheses; and outputting an indication of the determined validity. Additional systems, methods and computer program products are also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Kofax, Inc.
    Inventors: Mauritius A. R. Schmidtler, Roland G. Borrey, Jan W. Amtrup, Stephen Michael Thompson
  • Patent number: 8515163
    Abstract: A system and method of identifying and classifying regions of a digital image. The method includes an initial step of inputting an image as a color digital image. Subsequently, information that identifies color regions of the color digital image is obtained. Finally, color and non-color regions of the color digital image are classified based upon the identifying information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Kofax, Inc.
    Inventors: Seungyeon Cho, William Bither
  • Patent number: 8515208
    Abstract: A method for aligning a document to a template includes identifying image-bounding rectangles of the document and of the template, identifying center points of the image bounding rectangles and of the document and the template, iteratively transforming the template to match the center points and the image bounding rectangles of the document, and aggregating in a matrix the transformations of the template. The method also includes applying to the document the inverse of the transform matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Kofax, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard T. Minerich
  • Publication number: 20130182973
    Abstract: In various embodiments, methods, systems, and computer program products for processing digital images captured by a mobile device are disclosed. Myriad features enable and/or facilitate processing of such digital images using a mobile device that would otherwise be technically impossible or impractical, and furthermore address unique challenges presented by images captured using a camera rather than a traditional flat-bed scanner, paper-feed scanner or multifunction peripheral.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: KOFAX, INC.
    Inventor: Kofax, Inc.