Carol L Howe

US Patent:

20120020532, Jan 26, 2012

Filed:

Jul 21, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/840681

Inventors:

David J. Snow - San Diego CA, US
Brian W. Farwell - Oceanside CA, US
Amir Eftekhari - San Diego CA, US
Carol A. Howe - San Diego CA, US

Assignee:

INTUIT INC. - Mountain View CA

International Classification:

G06K 9/00

US Classification:

382112

Abstract:

A technique for providing feedback about an image of a financial document to a user is described. During this feedback technique, the user provides the image of a financial document, such as W-2 form. For example, the user may take a picture of or may scan the financial document. This image may be analyzed using predefined information in a set of financial documents (such as different types of income-tax documents), and a quality metric for the image may be determined using the analysis. Moreover, the feedback, which is based on the determined quality metric, may be provided to the user. For example, the user may be instructed to retake the image, and the instructions may include an image of the desired orientation and content. In this way, the user may be advised as to how to improve the quality metric in the revised image.