US Patent 7869098 Scanning verification and tracking system and method

A method and device are provided for assigning a task to a user to verify information from a scanned document. An image, a data item, and a data field are presented to a user. The image is associated with at least a section of a scanned document. The data item is identified from a portion of the image. The data field is associated with the data item. A second data item is received. The second data item is entered by the user in the data field and indicates a correction to the data item to reflect the portion of the image. An error rate is updated based on the received second data item. The user is selected to process a task based on the updated error rate. The task is presented to the selected user.