Cynthia A Thompson

US Patent:

20140085323, Mar 27, 2014

Filed:

Oct 23, 2013

Appl. No.:

14/060942

Inventors:

- New York NY, US
Glenn Ricart - Salt Lake City UT, US
Cynthia Ann Thompson - Menlo Park CA, US
Keith Wishon - Los Angeles CA, US
Sheldon Laube - Los Altos CA, US

Assignee:

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP - New York NY

International Classification:

G06K 9/00

US Classification:

345581, 345619

Abstract:

A document processing system for accurately and efficiently analyzing documents and methods for making and using same. Each incoming document includes at least one section of textual content and is provided in an electronic form or as a paper-based document that is converted into an electronic form. Since many categories of documents, such as legal and accounting documents, often include one or more common text sections with similar textual content, the document processing system compares the documents to identify and classify the common text sections. The document comparison can be further enhanced by dividing the document into document segments and comparing the document segments; whereas, the conversion of paper-based documents likewise can be improved by comparing the resultant electronic document with a library of standard phrases, sentences, and paragraphs. The document processing system thereby enables an image of the document to be manipulated, as desired, to facilitate its review.