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Print-friendly page extraction for web printing service

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Printing Web pages from browsers usually results in unsatisfactory printouts because the pages are typically ill formatted and contain non-informative content such as navigation menu and ads. Thus, print-worthy Web pages such as articles generally contain hyperlinks (or links) that lead to print-friendly pages containing the salient content. For a more desirable Web printing experience, the main Web content should be extracted to produce well formatted pages. This paper describes a cloud service based on automatic content extraction and repurposing from print-friendly pages for Web printing. Content extraction from print-friendly pages is simpler and more reliable than from the original pages, but there are many variations of the print-link representations in HTML that make robust print-link detection more difficult than it first appears. First, the link can be text-based, image-based, or both. For example, there is a lexicon of phrases used to indicate print-friendly pages, such as "print", "print article", "print-friendly version", etc. In addition, some links use printer-resembling image icons with or without a print phrase present. To complicate matter further, not all of the links contain a valid URL, but instead the pages are dynamically generated either by the client Javascript or by the server, so that no URL is present. Experimental results suggest that our solution is capable of achieving over 99% precision and 97% recall performance measures for print-friendly link extraction.

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Luo, Ping et al. 2009. "Web Article Extraction for Web Printing: a DOM+Visual based Approach". In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering. DocEng 2009, New York, NY, 66--69.

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    DocEng '11: Proceedings of the 11th ACM symposium on Document engineering
    September 2011
    296 pages
    ISBN:9781450308632
    DOI:10.1145/2034691
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    1. dom
    2. html
    3. web content extraction
    4. web printing

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    September 19 - 22, 2011
    California, Mountain View, USA

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