Patent ID: 8081848

Claim:
One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-usable instructions stored thereon for performing a method for extracting metadata from a digitally scanned document, the method comprising: obtaining text from a digitally scanned document; determining a first score for each page within the document that corresponds to the likelihood the page is a table of contents page; determining a second score for each page within the document that corresponds to the likelihood the page is an index page; calculating a mean score for each of the first and second scores of all pages within the document; determining one or more candidate table of contents pages that have a first score that is greater than a first predetermined value of standard deviations from the mean score of the first scores; determining one or more candidate index pages that have a second score that is greater than a second predetermined value of standard deviations from the mean score of the second scores; determining a third score for each page within the document that corresponds to the likelihood the page is a title page; and assigning a title page identifier, a table of contents page identifier, and an index page identifier to one or more pages within the document based on the first, second, and third scores, wherein the table of contents identifier is assigned to at least one of the one or more candidate table of contents pages, and wherein the index page identifier is assigned to at least one of the one or more candidate index pages.