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Methods and systems for analyzing an image, such as a newspaper or magazine pager or the like including text by mapping the image to determine regions of text and analyzing portions of the image in accordance with characteristics of selected regions of the text to develop a desired ordering of at le

Methods and systems for analyzing an image, such as a newspaper or magazine pager or the like including text by mapping the image to determine regions of text and analyzing portions of the image in accordance with characteristics of selected regions of the text to develop a desired ordering of at least the selected regions in accordance with a textual relationship between the selected regions. The desired order may be related to the order in which the selected regions, and or words therein, are to be presented in a different format appropriate for a specific use, such by a human reader, for transferring the text over a network, for use in a database or by a search function, word processor or printer. Normalizing, columnizing, regionalizing, frameset building and article tracing functions may be used to develop the desired order in related regions in an article within the image.

대표청구항 ▼

The invention claimed is: 1. An apparatus for providing a secure transfer of a high-resolution image, used for non-viewing purposes, over a network from a server to a client, comprising:said server comprising means for creating a high-resolution image of an original document for non-viewing purposes

The invention claimed is: 1. An apparatus for providing a secure transfer of a high-resolution image, used for non-viewing purposes, over a network from a server to a client, comprising:said server comprising means for creating a high-resolution image of an original document for non-viewing purposes wherein said high-resolution image has higher resolution than a low-resolution image;a data repository for storing said high-resolution image;said server comprising means for creating said low-resolution image of the original document for viewing purposes wherein said low-resolution image contains all data present in said high-resolution image;said data repository storing said low-resolution image;said server comprising means for transferring from said data repository to said client at least a portion of said low-resolution image in response to a first user action;said server comprising means for mapping the location of words or objects on each page of the original document to said low-resolution image to determine a mapping template related to discreet portions of said low-resolution image, wherein said discreet portions are user-selectable and correspond to both the original document and said high-resolution image;said server comprising means for determining from said mapping template corresponding words or objects in said high-resolution image in response to a second user action, which comprises selecting one or more of said discreet portions of said low-resolution image by establishing the bounds of a box of pixels on said low-resolution image; andsaid server comprising means for transferring said corresponding words or objects of said high-resolution image to said client.