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.