Patent ID: 11943415
Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 13:
14. A system for repurposing a document, comprising:
a processor;
a computer readable medium coupled to the processor containing instructions that when read and executed by the processor cause the processor to:
read a first document having multiple pages;
extract three samples of the multiple pages of the first document from a front, a middle, and an end of the document;
for each of the three samples, compare sequential pages within a respective sample to identify a pattern of page numbers, wherein a page number is found by splitting a page into smaller regions that are each smaller than the page, wherein each smaller region is searched for numbers and if a number is not found continuing to split a smaller region into further smaller regions that are each smaller than the smaller region, and wherein each further smaller region is searched for the numbers;
remove page numbers based on identified patterns for each respective sample of the document;
combine the first document with a second document; and
repaginate the combined first and second documents.