Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Shinobu Matsuzuka

Lokesh Joshi

Christopher Allen Suver

Robert Wai-Chi Chu

Venkata Krishnan Ramamoorthy

Patrick J Stammerjohn

A processing device in a user device receives an electronic document comprising text in a first font of a plurality of fonts and a hint tag set comprising a suggested order of hint types for the first font, wherein a first hint type is arranged in the suggested order according to a corresponding quality score for the first hint type, the quality score indicating how closely characters from a simulated presentation of the text match a predefined presentation of the characters. The processing device determines a hint type for the first font from the suggested order of hint types and according to a capability of the user device and utilizes the hint type for a presentation of the text of the electronic document.

Providing different font hints based on device, text and font context

A method and system to provide font hints for text is described. An example method includes identifying a plurality of fonts of the text, determining a suggested order of hint types for each font based on rendering context, and sending, to a user device, the fonts and a suggested order of hint types for each font.

Some examples include segmenting text of a content item to include a plurality of segments or words. For instance, a module for segmenting a content item using a context-based segmenter into a plurality of segments, identifying segment boundary hints stored in the content item, and adjusting segments of the plurality of segments based on the identified segment boundary hints. Some additional examples include inserting segment boundary hints into a content item. For instance a module that segments the content item using a first segmenter and a second segmenter and inserting segment boundary hints into the content item where the results of the first and second segmenter differ.

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Shinobu Matsuzuka