US 10,949,606 B2 · System and method for low-maintenance conversion of advance function presentation format to portable document format

Abstract

An embodiment of the present invention is directed to low-maintenance conversion of an advance function presentation (AFP) format to a portable document format. According to an embodiment of the present invention, hidden text may be inserted as locators in the AFP files. For example, the hidden text may be inserted in a small font size (e.g., approximately 1 point) in a color that matches the background, e.g., text in white. A benefit of this hidden text is that it does not need to change with the maintenance of the statement template. Accordingly, the transformation software template may be built, or trained, to look for these hidden text locators to identify the beginning and end of sections. This leads to a robust transformation software template that does not need to be maintained or changed with text changes in the statements.

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Dependent claims

A system that implements conversion of advance function presentation format to a portable document format, the system comprising:

a memory that stores and manages customer data;
a communication interface that communicates with a requestor;
and
a computer processor, coupled to the memory and communication interface, configured to perform:
generating data in a structured data format;
adding one or more sets of text markers in a hidden format, wherein each set of text markers comprise a start marker and an end marker that identifies a section and the hidden format comprises text in font size that is 1 point font;
storing the data with the one or more set of text markers;
receiving a request for data in an output format;
converting the stored data into the output format by identifying the one or more sets of text makers for generating the output format;
and
transmitting, via the communication interface, the output format to the requestor in real-time.

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System and method for low-maintenance conversion of advance function presentation format to portable document format

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System and method for low-maintenance conversion of advance function presentation format to portable document format

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