Patent ID: 8301998

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving an electronic document that comprises a plurality of sections; marking the plurality of sections as a content section or a non-content section using an attribute of the sections that includes at least one of a width of the section, a density of the plurality of hyperlinks in the section, a size of a font of text in the section, and whether a title of the electronic document overlaps with text in the section; comparing a value of a different attribute of two adjacent sections of the plurality of sections, a first section of the two adjacent sections being marked to include content and a second section of the two adjacent sections being marked not to include content; changing a mark of the second section from a mark not to include content to a mark to include content in response to the comparison resulting in a determination that the value of the different attribute of the first section is the same as the value of the different attribute of the second section; and storing the mark of the plurality of sections of the electronic document in a machine-readable medium.