Method for automatically indexing an electronic document

A computer-implemented method of automatically indexing an electronic document comprising a plurality of pages, the method comprising:

• receiving, via a graphical user interface, a selection of a first page region within a first page of the electronic document, the first page region represented by a first set of boundary locations relative to the first page;
• extracting a first text string from the first page region;
• assigning the first text string to a page location index of the first page;
• generating subsequent page regions in subsequent pages of the electronic document by applying the first set of boundary locations to each of the subsequent pages;
• extracting subsequent text strings from the subsequent page regions in the subsequent pages;
• and
• assigning the subsequent text strings extracted from the subsequent page regions to corresponding page location indices of the subsequent pages.

A system comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• at least one storage storing instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations for automatically indexing an electronic document comprising a plurality of pages, the operations comprising:
• receiving, via a graphical user interface, a selection of a first page region within a first page of the electronic document, the first page region represented by a first set of boundary locations relative to the first page;
• extracting a first text string from the first page region;
• assigning the first text string to a page location index of the first page;
• generating subsequent page regions in subsequent pages of the electronic document by applying the first set of boundary locations to each of the subsequent pages;
• extracting subsequent text strings from the subsequent page regions in the subsequent pages;
• and
• assigning the subsequent text strings extracted from the subsequent page regions to corresponding page location indices of the subsequent pages.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations for automatically indexing an electronic document comprising a plurality of pages, the operations comprising:

• receiving, via a graphical user interface, a selection of a first page region within a first page of the electronic document, the first page region represented by a first set of boundary locations relative to the first page;
• extracting a first text string from the first page region;
• assigning the first text string to a page location index of the first page;
• generating subsequent page regions in subsequent pages of the electronic document by applying the first set of boundary locations to each of the subsequent pages;
• extracting subsequent text strings from the subsequent page regions in the subsequent pages;
• and
• assigning the subsequent text strings extracted from the subsequent page regions to corresponding page location indices of the subsequent pages.