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Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2026

Filed:

Jan. 25, 2017
Applicant:

Issuu, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Søren D. Thomsen, København Ø, DK;

Anders H. Madsen, Copenhagen N., DK;

Søren Vind, Copenhagen N., DK;

Mads Sejersen, Frederiksberg, DK;

Peter Assentorp, Københaven S., DK;

Assignee:

Issuu, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2019.01); G06F 3/0483 (2013.01); G06F 40/106 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/106 (2020.01); G06F 3/0483 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04806 (2013.01);
Abstract

Roughly described, a viewer application is provided for viewing a PDF document on a screen of a device such as a mobile phone or tablet. The viewer application may operate in page mode or in text mode. In page mode the original layout is maintained, and navigation assistance is provided by use of a navigation pane indicating the contents of the screen with a superimposed frame. Display of the navigation pane is controllable by the user. In page mode a selected text column is scrolled and zoomed to optimize reading. In text mode, text is extracted from the document and reformatted in text view to be continuous and complete in correct reading order, and images and advertising may be excluded. The user may toggle between page mode and text mode. The viewer application is implemented in software to by executed by a processor on the device.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Thomsen, Søren. (2026). Method and system to display content from a pdf document on a small screen (U.S. Patent No. 12602534). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12602534

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