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Extrapolating tabular structure in a freeform document

  • US 8,887,038 B2
  • Filed: 10/08/2010
  • Issued: 11/11/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An article of manufacture including a non-transitory computer readable storage medium to store instructions, which when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:

  • receive a selection of at least one element in a freeform document;

    determine a primary column for the selected at least one element, wherein the primary column comprises;

    the at least one element; and

    one or more additional elements identified based on a left side border of the at least one element, a right side border of the at least one element and whether the left side border and the right side border exceeds width of the one or more additional elements by a tolerance;

    determine one or more secondary columns corresponding to the determined primary column based on a top border or a bottom border corresponding to elements in the primary column, and a tolerance corresponding to the top border or the bottom border;

    extrapolate a tabular structure in the freeform document based on the determined primary column and the one or more secondary columns to facilitate manipulation of one or more elements in the freeform, wherein manipulating one or more elements in the freeform document comprises dragging and releasing one or more columns in a desired location within the freeform document; and

    update a computer display including the freeform document to include the tabular structure.

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