Receipts2Go: the big world of small documents

  • Authors:
  • Bill Janssen;Eric Saund;Eric Bier;Patricia Wall;Mary Ann Sprague

  • Affiliations:
  • Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA;Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA;Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA;Xerox Research Center Webster, Webster, NY, USA;Xerox Research Center Webster, Webster, NY, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2012 ACM symposium on Document engineering
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The Receipts2Go system is about the world of one-page documents: cash register receipts, book covers, cereal boxes, price tags, train tickets, fire extinguisher tags. In that world, we're exploring techniques for extracting accurate information from documents for which we have no layout descriptions -- indeed no initial idea of what the document's genre is -- using photos taken with cell phone cameras by users who aren't skilled document capture technicians. This paper outlines the system and reports on some initial results, including the algorithms we've found useful for cleaning up those document images, and the techniques used to extract and organize relevant information from thousands of similar-but-different page layouts.