14. The method of claim 12 , further comprising, establishing a tagging error rate and wherein the field exclusion function is a function of the tagging error rate.
12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising: for each of a plurality of fields of the form: computing a field exclusion function which is based on the estimated manual entry time and manual correction time, the text length parameter, tagging error rate, optical character recognition error rate, and, optionally, the field relevance parameter, and determining whether to automatically populate the field of the form based on the field exclusion function.