ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,058, issued on May 12, was assigned to Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH (Zug, Switzerland).
"Systems and methods for structure and header extraction" was invented by Richard Anthony Pito (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for extracting structure and headers from a body of text. This computational extraction is based on the visual and logical similarities between portions of text. Boilerplate is removed from chunks of text making up potential headers and the cleaned result is compared against other potential headers and the remainder of the body of text."
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