Intuit Inc.
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED FORM FIELD DETECTION AND COMPLETION

Abstract:

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for automatic form detection and completion. When a form is first identified by systems and methods disclosed herein, an image of the form is acquired and the form is uniquely identified. The image of the form is presented to a user, who clicks on areas of the form image and provides data into the areas so chosen. The coordinates of the user input in the form image, data provided by the user, and attributes of that data, are stored. Once a sufficient number of users, determined by a confidence interval threshold, have used the form in this manner, the user data input is clustered around user defined input coordinates. From the user data, a data schema of the user input is determined, and the data schema is assigned to the related user defined input coordinates. Once the data schema is assigned to user defined input coordinate and the next user interacts with the form, in some embodiments the data schema is matched to the user data of the next user, and the user data of the next user is automatically entered into the form at the coordinates.