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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2005
Daniel Ortega, Barcelona, ES;
Sherif Yacoub, Barcelona, ES;
Jose Abad Peiro, Barcelona, ES;
Paolo Faraboschi, Barcelona, ES;
Daniel Ortega, Barcelona, ES;
Sherif Yacoub, Barcelona, ES;
Jose Abad Peiro, Barcelona, ES;
Paolo Faraboschi, Barcelona, ES;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An automated document processing system is configured to normalize zones obtained from a document, and to extract articles from the normalized zones. In one configuration, the system receives at least one zone from the document, and applies at least one zone-breaking factor, thereby creating normalized sub-zones within which text lines are consistent with the at least one zone-breaking factor. The normalized sub-zones may be evaluated to obtain a reading order. Adjacent sub-zones are joined if text similarity exceeds a threshold value. Weakly joined sub-zones are separated where indicated by a topic vectors analysis of the weakly joined sub-zones.