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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 1997
Filed:
Oct. 17, 1994
Leigh L Klotz, Jr, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A reprographic device having means for eliminating undesired spacings between lines of text in copies of a source medium. Such means will often have the desired effect of reducing the number of pages in a multi-page document. The present invention accomplishes this by scanning the multiple pages to create bit-mapped images, segmenting the images to identify lines of text and graphics, identifying a distance X between segments, identifying a segment spacing factor which will cause reduction in the spacing between lines of text, laying out the segments in a print page memory so that the segments are separated by a distance based on the distance X and the segment spacing factor and printing out the contents of the page memory.