Patent ID: 8290268

Claim:
A printed media article segmenting system, comprising: a block segmenter, utilizing a computer, configured to identify and produce blocks of content from a printed media image through merging and feature comparison; and an article segmenter system configured to determine which blocks of content belong to one or more articles in the printed media image based on a classifier algorithm using an orphan block rule, wherein said orphan block rule in said article segmenter system identifies an orphan block, wherein if the orphan block is a section-starter orphan block then it may be linked to another identified block when the section-starter orphan block is an orphan block immediately below a section-separator or at the top of a page, and wherein an identified block is a candidate block only if there is no other block between the candidate block's right margin and the section-starter orphan block's left margin where the bottom of the candidate block is below the top margin of the section-starter orphan block.