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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Xi Xi Liu, Shangai, CN;
Yuan Jin, Shangai, CN;
Su Liu, Austin, TX (US);
Fan Xiao Xin, Shangai, CN;
Zheng Ping AC Chu, Shangai, CN;
Yu Huang, Shanghai, CN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
This disclosure provides a method and system for pre-processing an E-book, wherein the E-book comprises text pages in scanned format and annotation pages in scanned format and the annotation pages contain annotation items for explaining text elements in the text pages. The method comprises: extracting annotations from the annotation items; identifying annotated elements from the text pages, wherein an annotated element is a text element that may be determined to be associated with one of the annotations; defining positions on the text pages for the annotated elements respectively; and storing the positions and the annotations. The positions and the annotations are correlated according to their relationship with the annotated elements.