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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2006
Thierry Jacquin, Gières, FR;
Jean-pierre Chanod, Grenoble, FR;
Thierry Jacquin, Gières, FR;
Jean-Pierre Chanod, Grenoble, FR;
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
In a document annotator (), a document converter () is configured to convert a source document () with a layout to a deterministic format () including content and layout metadata. At least one annotation pipeline () is configured to generate document annotations respective to received content. A merger () is configured to associate the generated document annotations with positional tags based on the layout metadata, which locate the document annotations in the layout. A document visualizer () is configured to render at least some content of the deterministic format and one or more selected annotations () in substantial conformance with the layout based on the layout metadata and the positional tags associated with the selected one or more annotations ().