US Patent Issued to SAP on March 4 for "Extracting defined objects from images of documents" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,339, issued on March 4, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Extracting defined objects from images of documents" was invented by Lance Hughes (Snoqualmie, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores a program. The program receives an image of a document. The program further detects a plurality of text based on the image of the document. The program also uses a machine learning model to predict whether each text in the plurality of text is one of a plurality of defined types of text. Based on the predicted types of text for the plurality of text, the progr...