US Patent Issued to Hyland Software on March 11 for "Computing system for extraction of textual elements from a document" (German, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,171, issued on March 11, was assigned to Hyland Software Inc. (Westlake, Ohio).

"Computing system for extraction of textual elements from a document" was invented by Ralph Meier (Freiburg i. Br., Germany), Thorsten Wanschura (Oldenburg, Germany), Johannes Hausmann (Corcelles, Switzerland) and Harry Urbschat (Oldenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are various technologies pertaining to text extraction from a document. A computing device receives the document. The document comprises computer-readable text and a layout, wherein the layout defines positions of the computer-readable text. Responsive to receivi...