Relative-Spatial-linkage And Contextual Understanding Platform For Document Processing And Decision-making Through Machine Learning (ART/344CP) | ASTRI - Hong Kong Applied Science And Technology Research Institute Company Limited

Project Title:

Relative-Spatial-linkage and Contextual Understanding Platform for Document Processing and Decision-making through Machine Learning (ART/344CP)

Project Reference:

ART/344CP

Project Type:

Platform

Project Period:

01 / 05 / 2022 - 31 / 07 / 2023

Funds Approved (HK$’000):

7,487.880

Project Coordinator:

Dr Arvin Wai-kai TANG

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Sponsor:

Inland Revenue Department

Description:

Project objectives: - Enhance the processing efficiency of Inland Revenue Department (IRD). Reduce the manpower and time needed to handle applications and document evaluation. ASTRI solutions: - An extendable platform, with high accuracy recognition rate on printed characters, will extract and understand contexts from flexibly-layout documents. Impacts and benefits: - Speed up the IRD processing of IR56 tax reporting forms, this improves the efficiency of the company's tax payment handling and the corresponding financial arrangement.

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