Research from Karnataka Has Provided New Data on Engineering (A Multi-Modal Approach to Digital Document Stream Segmentation for Title Insurance Domain): Engineering

2022 FEB 11 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Engineering Daily News -- Investigators publish new report on engineering. According to news reporting originating from Karnataka, India, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “In the twenty-first century, storing and managing digital documents has become commonplace for all corporate and public sectors around the world.”

Our news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Department of Data Science: “Physical documents are scanned in batches and stored in a digital archive as a heterogeneous document stream, referred to as a digital package. To make Robotic Process Automation (RPA) easier, it’s necessary to automatically segment the document stream into a subset of independent, coherent multi-page documents by detecting the appropriate document boundary. It’s a common requirement of a TI company’s Automated Document Management Systems (ADMS), where business operations are automated using RPA and the goal is to extract information from digital documents with minimal user intervention. The current study proposes, evaluates, and compares a multi-modal binary classification network incorporating text and picture aspects of digital document pages to state-of-the-art baseline methodologies. Image and textual features are extracted simultaneously from the input document image by passing them through Visual Geometry Group 16 - Convolutional Neural Network (VGG16-CNN) and pre-trained Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (Legal-BERT ${}_{base}$ ) model through transfer learning respectively. Both features are finally fused and passed through a fully connected layer of Multi Layered Perceptron (MLP) to obtain the binary classification of the pages as the First Page (FP) and Other Page (OP).”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Real-time document image streams from production business process archive were obtained from a reputed Title Insurance (TI) company for the study. The obtained $F_{1}$ score of 97.37% and 97.15% are significantly higher than the accuracies of the considered two baseline models and well above the expected Straight Through Pass (STP) threshold defined by the process admin.”

For more information on this research see: A Multi-Modal Approach to Digital Document Stream Segmentation for Title Insurance Domain. IEEE Access, 2022,10():11341-11353. (IEEE Access - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?punumber=6287639). The publisher for IEEE Access is IEEE.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3144185.

Our news editors report that more information may be obtained by contacting Abhijit Guha, Department of Data Science, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. Additional authors for this research include Abdulrahman Alahmadi, Debabrata Samanta, Mohammad Zubair Khan, Ahmed H. Alahmadi.

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