Textbooks with decorative alphabet strips along page edges produce
OCR artifacts (scattered colored letters at x<150 while real content
starts at x>=179). Step 4e detects a significant x-gap (>30px) between
a small cluster (<15% of total word_boxes) near the page edge and the
main content, then removes the border-strip word_boxes.
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