Patent Document ID: 8693779
Application ID: 13612072

Base Claim:
1. A printed media article segmenting system, comprising: a block segmenter configured to identify and produce blocks of content from a printed media image, the block segmenter comprising a block type identifier and a merger, the block type identifier being configured to output from the media image a set of paragraphs that are tagged as headlines or body-text and the merger being configured to combine the paragraphs into sets of blocks; 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; the article segmenter being configured to determine that blocks with a common assigned headline belong to the same article; and to determine, that blocks without an assigned headline are orphan blocks, and where an orphan block is identified, the article segmenter being further configured to determine whether there are any candidate blocks that may be linked to the orphan block; and an article generator configured to use the results of the article segmenter to construct an article comprising a headline block and body text blocks, wherein a block is a candidate block if the bottom of the candidate block is located below the top margin of a section-starter orphan block.

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Claim 5:
5. The printed media article segmenting system of claim 1 , wherein said block segmenter further comprises a chopper system configured to segment paragraphs of the printed media image in accordance with lines and gutters identified by a line and gutter system.