13. The system of claim 12 wherein the text identifying component identifies one or more white space regions located between the text regions.
13. The system of claim 12 wherein the text identifying component identifies one or more white space regions located between the text regions. 14. The system of claim 13 wherein the text identifying component identifies the white space regions by: selecting one or more rectangular white space candidate seeds that are candidate white space regions, said white space candidate seeds being located in inter-word spaces between neighboring, vertically overlapping word bounding boxes and having a width greater than a threshold width; vertically expanding each white space candidate seed by a configurable amount; selecting expanded white space candidate seeds that do not intersect any word bounding boxes as white space seeds; horizontally expanding the white space seeds without overlapping any word bounding boxes; and vertically expanding the horizontally expanded white space seeds while horizontally shrinking any vertically and horizontally expanded white space seeds to prevent overlap with any word bounding boxes.