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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 8250469 B1

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Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012

Filed:

Dec. 03, 2007
Applicants:

Bodin Dresevic, Bellevue, WA (US);

Oren Trutner, Kirkland, WA (US);

Sasa Tomasevic, Belgrade, RS;

Aleksandar Uzelac, Kru{hacek over (s)}evac, RS;

Dejan Lukacevic, Belgrade, RS;

Inventors:

Bodin Dresevic, Bellevue, WA (US);

Oren Trutner, Kirkland, WA (US);

Sasa Tomasevic, Belgrade, RS;

Aleksandar Uzelac, Kru{hacek over (s)}evac, RS;

Dejan Lukacevic, Belgrade, RS;

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Computer-readable media, systems, and methods for document layout extraction are described. In embodiments, textual data in an electronic format is received and the textual data is converted from the electronic format to an independent interface format, the independent interface format including coordinates to one or more structural elements of the textual data. Further, in embodiments, a structure and layout analysis of the textual data is performed to generate a set of structure and layout information. Still further, in embodiments, the textual data and the set of structure and layout information is stored in an enriched interface format, the enriched interface format providing for search and navigation of the textual data.


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