Patent Document ID: 8051371
Application ID: 11577984

Base Claim:
1. A document analysis system comprising: a processor, the processor functioning as: an input unit that receives a document, the document comprising one of structured document or a semi-structured document, renders the received document, and stores the rendered document as an image in a storage unit; a basic layout analysis unit that groups document description elements of the document included in the image that are juxtaposed in a horizontal or vertical direction in the image, relates the grouped document description elements to layout components of the document that describe a layout of the document description elements of the document, and stores the related grouped document description elements and layout components in the storage unit; and an output unit that outputs the layout based on the stored related grouped document description elements and layout components, the layout identifying the layout components, the layout components referencing the grouped document description elements.

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Claim 2:
2. The document analysis system according to claim 1 , further comprising: a title analysis rule storing unit that stores a title analysis rule that defines at least one information piece of a name, an attribute, a style and a content of a title included in the document; a title analysis unit that determines whether a document description element included in the document includes the at least one information piece of the name, the attribute, the style and the content of the title, based on the title analysis rule, determines that the document description element is a title element of the document, relates the document description element to a title component of the document, and stores the related document description element in the storage unit; and a layout analysis unit that generates a new layout comprising the layout components and the title component.