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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2018
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Kaustav Mukherjee, Kolkatta, IN;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Examples described herein generally relate to a computer device including a memory, and at least one processor configured to automatically extract page numbers from a portable document format (PDF) file. The computer device may determine a vertical coordinate of each run object in the PDF file. The computer device may identify, among all pages in the PDF file, a common vertical coordinate location within a threshold distance of a top or a bottom of a plurality of the pages. The computer device may determine that a run object at the vertical coordinate location of each page of the plurality of pages follows a numbering pattern. The computer device may convert the run object at the vertical coordinate location of each page into a page number for the respective page. The computer device may display at least one respective page and the page number of the at least one respective page.