Patent Document ID: 8843493
Application ID: 13622316

Base Claim:
1. A method for comparing documents, comprising: extracting, by a computer processor, a plurality of extracted elements from a first formatted document, wherein each of the plurality of extracted elements corresponds to a text element of the first formatted document, wherein the plurality of extracted elements comprises at least one selected from a group consisting of a plurality of words and a plurality of word lengths; extracting, by the computer processor, a first plurality of text fingerprints from a sequence of the plurality of extracted elements to form a first text feature of the first formatted document, wherein the first plurality of text fingerprints comprises at least one selected from a group consisting of a plurality of word n-grams and a plurality of word length n-grams, wherein the first text feature comprises at least one selected from a group consisting of a first text content feature based on the plurality of word n-grams and a first text geometric feature based on the plurality of word length n-grams; comparing, by the computer processor, the first text feature and a second text feature of a second formatted document to generate a comparison result, wherein the second text feature comprises at least one selected from a group consisting of a second text content feature and a second text geometric feature, wherein the comparison result comprises at least one selected from a group consisting of a text content match rate between the first and second text content features and a text geometric match rate between the first and second text geometric features; and determining, in response to the comparison result meeting a pre-determined criterion, that each of the first formatted document and the second formatted document contains common text content, wherein the comparison result meeting the pre-determined criterion is based on at least one selected from a group consisting of the text content match rate and the text geometric match rate exceeding a pre-determined threshold.

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Claim 9:
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of extracted elements comprises a plurality of word lengths, the method further comprising: extracting a segment of consecutive word lengths from the plurality of word lengths, wherein the first plurality of text fingerprints is based at least on the segment.