Patent ID: 8782516

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of detecting a style of content of an image, the method comprising: as implemented by one or more computing devices configured with specific executable instructions, obtaining an image of content including paragraphs, each paragraph belonging to a column layout group and a candidate style group, the candidate style group determined by style attributes of the paragraphs, wherein the style attributes include at least one of an indentation, a tracking value or line spacing between consecutive lines of text in the paragraph; clustering the paragraphs of each candidate style group in the column layout group to identify outlier paragraphs having the style attributes outside of a threshold range of the style attributes; removing the outlier paragraphs from the candidate style group to create a stylized paragraph group; selecting at least one of the paragraphs in the stylized paragraph group according to a dimension of a display or window of a user system; and outputting the paragraphs from the image to the user system using the selected at least one of the paragraphs in the stylized paragraph group.