Patent ID: 9588971
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for auto-indexing an electronic document stored on a computer and having multiple pages, each page having page content, the method comprising: receiving, from a user, a selection of a first region within a first one of the multiple pages of the document, the first region being defined by a set of first boundaries relative to the first one of the multiple pages and including a first base selection page content; receiving a formatting structure including a first field code associated with the first region; retrieving, without user intervention, a text string of the first base selection page content from the first one of the multiple pages; assigning, without user intervention, the retrieved text string of the first base selection page content to a page location index associated with the first one of the multiple pages, the text string of the first base selection page content being arranged in accordance with the formatting structure, with the text string of the first base selection page content being substituted for the field code; retrieving, without user intervention, a text string of a first replicated selection page content from a second one of the multiple pages, the first replicated selection page content being included in the same first region defined by the set of first boundaries relative to the second one of the multiple pages; and assigning, without user intervention, the retrieved text string of the first replicated selection page content to a page location index of the second one of the multiple pages, the text string of the first replicated selection page content being arranged in accordance with the formatting structure, with the text string of the first replicated selection page content being substituted for the field code.