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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 12, 1996
Kevin G Rivette, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael P Florio, Atherton, CA (US);
Adam Jackson, Belmont, CA (US);
Don Ahn, Daly City, CA (US);
Irving S Rappaport, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Deborah Kurata, Pleasanton, CA (US);
SmartPatents, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A system, method, and computer program product for generating an equivalent text file. The equivalent text file, once generated, is an accurate textual representation of at least one portion of a source document. The equivalent text file has a similarity of pagination as this portion of the source document. At least a portion of a source text file is retrieved from a storage device. This portion of the source text file includes text that is an accurate textual representation of the portion of the source document. However, the portion of the source text file is paginated differently than the portion of the source document. At least one portion of a source image file is retrieved from a storage device. This portion of the source image file is an image corresponding to the portion of the source document. The portion of the source text file is synchronized with the portion of the source image file to obtain pagination information representative of pagination in the portion of the source document. The text from the portion of the source text file and the pagination information are used to generate at least a portion of the equivalent text file.