Automatically Identifying Chunks in Sets of Documents

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing executable computer program instructions for analyzing and improving documents, the instructions executable by a computer system and causing the computer system to perform a method comprising:

• accessing a document set that contains a plurality of documents;
• automatically identifying chunks within individual documents in the document set (a) based on the content, layout and contexts in the individual document;
• and (b) based on patterns of content, layout and contexts across the documents in the document set;
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• annotating documents in the document set based on analysis of the identified chunks from documents within the document set.

A computer system for analyzing and improving documents, the computer system comprising:

• a storage medium for receiving and storing a document set that contains a plurality of documents;
• and
• a processor system having access to the storage medium and executing an application program for analyzing and annotating documents, wherein the processor system executing the application program:
• automatically identifies chunks within individual documents in the document set (a) based on the content, layout and contexts in the individual document;
• and (b) based on patterns of content, layout and contexts across the documents in the document set;
• and
• annotates documents in the document set based on analysis of the identified chunks from documents within the document set