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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2007
Kathrin Berkner, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Christophe Marle, Seattle, WA (US);
Edward L. Schwartz, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael J. Gormish, Redwood City, CA (US);
Kathrin Berkner, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Christophe Marle, Seattle, WA (US);
Edward L. Schwartz, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael J. Gormish, Redwood City, CA (US);
Ricoh Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for reformatting electronic documents is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises performing layout analysis on an electronic version of a document to locate text zones, assigning attributes for scale and importance to text zones in the electronic version of the document, and reformatting text in the electronic version of the document based on the attributes to create an image.