Automatic Information Extraction from Electronic Documents using Machine Learning

The digital processing of electronic documents is widely exploited across many domains to improve the efficiency of information extraction. However, paper documents are still largely being used in practice. In order to process such documents, a manual procedure is used to inspect them and extract the values of interest. As this task is monotonous and time consuming, it is prone to introduce human errors during the process. In this paper, we present an efficient and robust system that automates the aforementioned task by using a combination of machine learning techniques: optical character recognition, object detection and image processing techniques. This not only speeds up the process but also improves the accuracy of extracted information compared to a manual procedure.