1. A system for assessing copyright fees based on the content being copied, comprising: a processor; a scanning module operable to scan a document comprising at least one page; a content identifying module operable to identify a content on each scanned page of the document and comprising an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine operable to extract a stream of text from each scanned page of the document; and a copyright holder identifying module operable to identify a copyright holder of the identified content; wherein the identifying a copyright holder of the identified content comprises: processing the stream of text into contiguous text segments; forming a separate query for each of the contiguous text segments; and searching a copyrighted content database for matching copyrighted content based on the query; wherein the processing the stream of text into contiguous text segments is based on textual coherence determined in accordance with linguistic analysis of the scanned text.
3. The system of claim 1 wherein the content identifying module utilizes the processor to process image data from each scanned page of the document.