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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2021
Fmr Llc, Boston, MA (US);
Ananya Bal, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Punitha Chandrasekar, Bengaluru, IN;
Vinay Iyengar, Westwood, MA (US);
Bidhan Roy, Bengaluru, IN;
FMR LLC, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses are described for automatically identifying text sections of a document to generate a searchable hierarchical data structure. A computing device receives a document comprising text entities and converts the document from a first format to a second format, including generating metadata associated with text alignment, text position, text spacing, or fonts. The computing device extracts the text blocks, including determining coordinates associated with each text block using the metadata. The computing device determines document sections using the document metadata by identifying strings in the extracted text blocks that indicate a presence of a bullet point in the document, assigns a hierarchical category to each identified document section, and inserts text of each document section into a hierarchical data structure based upon the assigned hierarchical category. The computing device traverses the hierarchical data structure using search request data to identify document sections relating to the search request data.