Content extraction from HTML documents

Abstract

In recent times, the way people access information from the web has undergone a transformation. The demand for information to be accessible from anywhere, anytime, has resulted in the introduction of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and cellular phones that are able to browse the web and can be used to find information using wireless connections. However, the small display form factor of these portable devices greatly diminishes the rate at which these sites can be browsed. This shows the requirement of efficient algorithms to extract the content of web pages and build a faithful reproduction of the original pages with the important content intact.