Abstract: An inflatable footstool including a body made of flexible material, the body including a bottom surface and a leg supporting surface, the leg supporting surface being inclined with respect to the bottom surface, where the body forms an inner container filled with elastic compressible material, and an air valve coupled to the body, the air valve including an air inlet for sealing the inner container and for filling the inner container.

Abstract: A computerized method for authenticating documents having VIZ sections, the method comprising capturing an image of a document to be authenticated from a scanner and enhancing the captured image, and using a processor for identifying and cropping a VIZ section in the image.

Abstract: A computerized method for authenticating documents having VIZ sections, the method comprising capturing an image of a document to be authenticated from a scanner and enhancing the captured image, and using a processor for identifying and cropping a VIZ section in the image.

Abstract: An inflatable footstool including a body made of flexible material, the body including a bottom surface and a leg supporting surface, the leg supporting surface being inclined with respect to the bottom surface, where the body forms an inner container filled with elastic compressible material, and an air valve coupled to the body, the air valve including an air inlet for sealing the inner container and for filling the inner container.

Abstract: A computerized method for authenticating documents having VIZ sections, the method comprising capturing an image of a document to be authenticated from a scanner and enhancing the captured image, and using a processor for identifying and cropping a VIZ section in the image.

Abstract: A computerized method for authenticating documents having VIZ sections, the method comprising capturing an image of a document to be authenticated from a scanner and enhancing the captured image, and using a processor for identifying and cropping a VIZ section in the image.

Abstract: A computerized document bearer authentication system operative in conjunction with a document bearer verifying functionality operative to check at least one aspect of a document bearing individual, the system comprising a computerized document authenticator operative to ascertain that a presented computerized document is valid including reading data from the computerized document and using a processor to find, within the data, validation information useful in ascertaining that the presented computerized document is valid; and a document bearer verifying functionality initiator operative to initiate operation of the document bearer verifying functionality including finding, within the data, bearer verification information useful in checking the at least one aspect and providing the verification information to the document bearer verifying functionality.

Abstract: A computerized method for authenticating documents having VIZ sections, the method comprising capturing an image of a document to be authenticated from a scanner and enhancing the captured image, and using a processor for identifying and cropping a VIZ section in the image.

Abstract: A computerized method for authenticating documents having VIZ sections, the method comprising capturing an image of a document to be authenticated from a scanner and enhancing the captured image, and using a processor for identifying and cropping a VIZ section in the image.

Abstract: Electronic document classification comprising providing training documents sorted into classes; linear programming including selecting inputs which maximize an output, given constraints on inputs, the output maximized being a difference between: a. first estimated probability that a document instance will be correctly classified, by a classifier corresponding to given inputs, as belonging to its own class, and b. second estimated probability that document instance will be classified, by the classifier, as not belonging to its own class; and classifying electronic document instances into classes, using a preferred classifier corresponding, to the inputs selected by the linear programming. A computerized electronic document forgery detection method provides training documents and uses a processor to select value-ranges of non-trivial parameters, such that selected values-range(s) of parameters are typical to an authentic document of given class, and atypical to a forged document of same class.

Abstract: A computerized method for authenticating documents having VIZ sections, the method comprising capturing an image of a document to be authenticated from a scanner and enhancing the captured image, and using a processor for identifying and cropping a VIZ section in the image.

Abstract: A computerized method for authenticating documents having VIZ sections, the method comprising capturing an image of a document to be authenticated from a scanner and enhancing the captured image, and using a processor for identifying and cropping a VIZ section in the image.

Abstract: Electronic document classification comprising providing training documents sorted into classes; linear programming including selecting inputs which maximize an output, given constraints on inputs, the output maximized being a difference between: a. first estimated probability that a document instance will be correctly classified, by a classifier corresponding to given inputs, as belonging to its own class, and b. second estimated probability that document instance will be classified, by the classifier, as not belonging to its own class; and classifying electronic document instances into classes, using a preferred classifier corresponding, to the inputs selected by the linear programming. A computerized electronic document forgery detection method provides training documents and uses a processor to select value-ranges of non-trivial parameters, such that selected values-range(s) of parameters are typical to an authentic document of given class, and atypical to a forged document of same class.

Abstract: A computerized method for authenticating documents having VIZ sections, the method comprising capturing an image of a document to be authenticated from a scanner and enhancing the captured image, and using a processor for identifying and cropping a VIZ section in the image.

Abstract: A computerized document bearer authentication system operative in conjunction with a document bearer verifying functionality operative to check at least one aspect of a document bearing individual, the system comprising a computerized document authenticator operative to ascertain that a presented computerized document is valid including reading data from the computerized document and using a processor to find, within the data, validation information useful in ascertaining that the presented computerized document is valid; and a document bearer verifying functionality initiator operative to initiate operation of the document bearer verifying functionality including finding, within the data, bearer verification information useful in checking the at least one aspect and providing the verification information to the document bearer verifying functionality.