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Apparatus, system, and method for improved portable document format (“PDF”) document archiving

  • US 8,099,397 B2
  • Filed: 08/26/2009
  • Issued: 01/17/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for improved Portable Document Format (“

  • PDF”

    ) document archiving, the method comprising;

    scanning by use of a processor, a source Portable Document Format (“

    PDF”

    ) document for a shared resource, the source PDF document comprising a plurality of records, the shared resource comprising a common resource referenced by way of a resource pointer associated with a record of the source PDF document;

    copying the shared resource to a resource group associated with the source PDF document;

    short-circuiting a link between content for the shared resource and the resource pointer in each record that points to the shared resource, wherein short-circuiting a link further comprises modifying the resource pointer to point to the copied shared resource in the resource group and wherein short-circuiting a link between the shared resource and the resource pointer further comprises removing content for the shared resource from the source PDF document; and

    extracting a record from the source PDF document, the extracted record void of the content for the shared resource in response to the short-circuited link.

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