ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,156, issued on July 8, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).
"System and method for data extraction" was invented by Mihir Joshi (Atlanta), Kyle Wade (Dallas), Brian A. Klotzman (Lewisville, Texas) and Eric Smith (Grapevine, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of data extraction is disclosed. An image file of a scan of a printed information list is received at a server via a network connection. When not in portable document format, the received image file is processed with an optical character recognition (OCR) engine at the server to identify all text therein and then the processed image file is stored in a ...