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DETECTING SIDEBAR IN DOCUMENT

  • US 20160139783A1
  • Filed: 11/13/2014
  • Published: 05/19/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2014
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method executed on a computing device to detect a sidebar in a document, the method comprising:

  • processing a page of the document to detect the sidebar, in response to an action selecting the page;

    analyzing one or more components of the page to detect one or more borders;

    processing the one or more borders to discard a subset of the one or more borders identified as false positive candidates;

    in response to detecting the one or more borders, processing the one or more borders to detect the sidebar that includes the one or more borders; and

    in response to a failure to detect the one or more borders, processing the one or more components to detect the sidebar that lacks the one or more borders.

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