A system for electronically distilling information from a business document uses a network scanner to electronically scan a platen area, having a business document thereon, to create a bitmap. A network server carries out a segmentation process to segment the scan generated bitmap into a bitmap object,...http://www.google.de/patents/US7689037?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7689037 - System and method for identifying and labeling fields of text associated with scanned business documents