Cross-Region Document Content Recognition Through Tail-Head Merging

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for recognizing document content in untagged documents fail to recognize continuous content across different pages and columns, requiring separate operations on each page and column, making unified operations impossible.

Innovation Solution

A cross-region document content recognition method that performs document structure recognition on untagged documents, identifies tail and head document structure results based on preset area conditions, and merges these results if they are compatible, creating a unified document structure recognition set.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If document content recognition is performed on a single document block in a single page, then the recognition process is simple and fast, but continuous document content in different pages and columns cannot be recognized

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverecognition speedVSAvoidcross-region recognition capability
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges document structure recognition results across different pages and columns by identifying continuous content relationships. The system combines tail region results from one page/column with head region results from the next page/column when they form continuous content, creating a unified recognition result set that spans multiple regions while maintaining recognition efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Ease of operation

If separate operations are performed on each page and column, then the operation process is simple, but unified operations on continuous document content become impossible

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoperation simplicityVSAvoidunified operation capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a document structure recognition result set as an intermediary data structure that stores and manages recognition results across multiple pages and columns. This intermediary structure enables the system to maintain relationships between continuous content elements while providing a unified interface for operations, allowing users to perform single operations on content spanning multiple regions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Adaptability or versatility

If document structure recognition results are merged across pages and columns, then unified operations become possible, but the complexity of the recognition process increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecross-region recognition capabilityVSAvoidrecognition process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the document into distinct regions (head region and tail region) on each page/column and processes them separately before merging. This segmentation allows the system to manage complexity by handling small, manageable units independently while maintaining the ability to combine them into comprehensive cross-region recognition results through structured merging operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS12367698B2Cross-region document content recognition method, apparatus and medium
Publication Date: 2025.07.22 PAI TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a cross-region document content recognition method, device, apparatus, medium, and program product. A specific implementation of the method includes: performing a document structure recognition processing on an untagged document; for every two adjacent document page numbers in the document page number sequence: selecting a document structure recognition result that corresponds to a first document page number and satisfies a preset tail area condition, as a tail document structure recognition result; selecting a document structure recognition result that corresponds to a second document page number and satisfies a preset head area condition, as a head document structure recognition result; performing a merged detection on the tail document structure recognition result and the head document structure recognition result; in response to the tail document structure recognition result and the head document structure recognition result being mergeable.