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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 16, 1998
Roger D. Melen, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Michael G. Roberts, Waikoloa, HI (US);
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
System and method for archiving and retrieving documents based on attributes of the document. The attributes are located by a processor that searches the document for a predefined set of attributes. The attributes may be particular words, word locations, font sizes, or other properties that can be located by a computer processor. The values associated with the attributes are stored in an index along with the document location. An attribute search may be performed on the index enabling quick location of documents with similar attributes to the search. A file provided the list of documents in order of similarity is provided as a result of the search. The system and method may further be used to retrieve similar documents by locating documents with similar attribute values to a provided document creating a file linked to the similar documents.