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

Claim 6:
7. A computer implemented method of repurposing a document, comprising:
extracting, on a processor, three samples of the document;, for each of the three samples, comparing, on the processor, 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;, removing, on the processor, page numbers based on the identified patterns for each respective sample of the document;
combining, on the processor, the document with other content without page numbers to create a new product; and
repaginating, on the processor, the new product.