Methods and devices for enabling computers to automatically enter information into a unified database from heterogeneous documents

A non-transitory computer-recordable storage medium storing program code which, when executed by a processor, performs a computer-implemented method of enabling a computer to automatically enter information into a unified database from heterogenous documents, the program code comprising:

• program code for receiving, at a processor, an image file;
• program code for displaying, by the processor, the image file in a first area of a window rendered on a tangible display device;
• program code for displaying, by the processor, fields for data entry in a second area of the window;
• program code for performing, by the processor, optical character recognition on the image file;
• program code for identifying, by the processor, at least one parameter of text in the image file;
• program code for comparing, by the processor, the at least one parameter of the text to at least one of a plurality of stored parameters;
• program code for sorting, by the processor, the text according to the at least one of the plurality of stored parameters into a plurality of categories, wherein sorted text is formed;
• and
• program code for auto-populating and displaying, by the processor, the fields in the second area of the window based on the sorted text.

A computer comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-recordable storage medium storing program code which, when executed by the processor, performs a computer-implemented method of enabling the computer to automatically enter information into a unified database from heterogenous documents, the program code comprising:
• program code for receiving, at a processor, an image file;
• program code for displaying, by the processor, the image file in a first area of a window rendered on a tangible display device;
• program code for displaying, by the processor, fields for data entry in a second area of the window;
• program code for performing, by the processor, optical character recognition on the image file;
• program code for identifying, by the processor, at least one parameter of text in the image file;
• program code for comparing, by the processor, the at least one parameter of the text to at least one of a plurality of stored parameters;
• program code for sorting, by the processor, the text according to the at least one of the plurality of stored parameters into a plurality of categories, wherein sorted text is formed;
• and
• program code for auto-populating and displaying, by the processor, the fields in the second area of the window based on the sorted text.