Method of automatically extracting information of a predefined type from a document

A system comprising:

• a computing device;
• and
• a computer-readable storage medium comprising a set of instructions that upon execution by the computing device cause the system to:
• identify, by an object detection algorithm, at least one segment of a document that is likely to comprise information of a predefined type;
• build at least one bounding box corresponding to the at least one segment;
• identify that the at least one bounding box likely comprises the information of the predefined type;
• and
• extract the information from the at least one bounding box.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-readable instructions that upon execution by a processor of a computing device cause the computing device to:

• identify, by an object detection algorithm, at least one segment of a document that is likely to comprise information of a predefined type;
• build at least one bounding box corresponding to the at least one segment;
• identify that the at least one bounding box likely comprises the information of the predefined type;
• and
• extract the information from the at least one bounding box.