Systems and methods for locating, identifying and mapping electronic form fields

A system for matching and completing form fields in an electronic form, the system comprising:

• a client device accessing the electronic form comprising a plurality of form fields, a plurality of field names associated with the plurality of form fields, and a plurality of readable labels;
• a server in communication with the client device which receives a field name of a form field on the accessed electronic form, the field name comprising a multiple terms;
• a content database in communication with the server, wherein the content database stores a plurality of pre-defined field names and corresponding field values;
• wherein the server is configured to:
• decompose the electronic form into a hierarchical structure in descending order of form category type, section headers, and subsections, wherein the section headers and subsections each comprise one or more form fields of the plurality of form fields;
• scan the plurality of readable labels for keywords in the electronic form;
• apply a probabilistic algorithm to the keywords to identify a form category type for the electronic form;
• build associations between the plurality of readable labels and the plurality of form fields to determine a readable label of the plurality of readable labels for the received field name of the form field;
• extract contextual information from the electronic form based on at least one of a section header corresponding to the received form field and a subsection corresponding to the received form field;
• compose a set of terms for the at least one form field based on the identified form category type, the determined readable label, and the contextual information, wherein the set of terms is not the same as the readable label;
• and
• perform a best-fit search of the field names in the content database using the set of terms to identify a best-fit field name from the pre-defined field names of the content database and a field value corresponding to for the best-fit field name for the received form field, which is then transmitted to the client device for filling into the received form field.

A method of identifying and labeling fields in an electronic form, the method comprising the steps of:

• decomposing the electronic form into a hierarchical structure in descending order of form category type, section headers, and subsections, the electronic form comprising a plurality of form fields, a plurality of field names associated with the plurality of form fields, and a plurality of readable labels, wherein the section headers and subsections each comprise one or more form fields of the plurality of form fields;
• determining a form category of the electronic form by applying a probabilistic algorithm using the hierarchical structure of the electronic form and keywords extracted from the electronic form;
• associating the plurality of readable labels with the plurality of form fields to determine a readable label of the plurality of readable labels for at least one field name associated with at least one form field;
• extracting contextual information from the form using an optical scanner based on at least one of a section header corresponding to the at least one form field and a subsection corresponding to the at least one form field;
• composing at least one term for each form field in the electronic form based on the determined form category, the determined readable label, and the contextual information;
• and
• assigning the composed at least one term for each of the form fields to each of the field name.