Automated document processing system

摘要

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.

主权项

1. One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising computer-executable instructions for configuring a computer to extract an article from a document, the computer-executable instructions comprising instructions for:
evaluating zones within a page of a document to obtain a reading order; joining adjacent zones within the reading order, where appropriate, in view of text similarity; and breaking weakly joined zones using topic vectors analysis.