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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Lalit Agarwalla, Bangalore, IN;
Rizwan Dudekula, Bangalore, IN;
Purushothaman K. Narayanan, Bangalore, IN;
Sujoy Sett, Kolkata, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for identifying sections in a document based on a plurality of visual features is provided. The present invention may include receiving a plurality of documents. The present invention may also include extracting a plurality of content blocks. The present invention may further include determining the plurality of visual features. The present invention may then include grouping the extracted plurality of content blocks into a plurality of categories. The present invention may also include generating a plurality of closeness scores for the plurality of categories by utilizing a Visual Similarity Measure. The present invention may further include generating a plurality of Association Matrices on the plurality of categories for each of the received plurality of documents based on the Visual Similarity Measure. The present invention may further include merging the plurality of categories into a plurality of clusters.