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Automated capture of technical documents for electronic review and distribution

  • US 5,963,966 A
  • Filed: 11/08/1996
  • Issued: 10/05/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/08/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of automatically coding, managing, and displaying a document in digital form, the method comprising the steps of:

  • scanning a document into an image format suitable for display purposes;

    embedding the image format into a hypertext-based meta-language format including one or more hypertext links;

    segmenting the hypertext-based document into one or more structured blocks;

    decoding a particular block into text, images, and tables, as appropriate, in accordance with a block-specific decoding strategy; and

    embedding the text derived from the block decoding into a conventional document format, enabling the use of a text-based search method.

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