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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2012
Ankur Jain, Haryana, IN;
Vivek Sahasranaman, Bangalore, IN;
Shobhit Saxena, New Delhi, IN;
Krishnendu Chaudhury, Bangalore, IN;
Ankur Jain, Haryana, IN;
Vivek Sahasranaman, Bangalore, IN;
Shobhit Saxena, New Delhi, IN;
Krishnendu Chaudhury, Bangalore, IN;
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for segmenting printed media pages into individual articles quickly and efficiently. A printed media based image that may include a variety of columns, headlines, images, and text is input into the system which comprises a block segmenter and an article segmenter system. The block segmenter identifies and produces blocks of textual content from a printed media image while the article segmenter system determines which blocks of textual content belong to one or more articles in the printed media image based on a classifier algorithm. A method for segmenting printed media pages into individual articles is also presented.