Patent ID: 7558792
Filing Date: 2009-07-07
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer-controlled method for extracting a human readable list from a document, said method comprising steps of: accessing a file, said file containing data that represents a portion of said document, said data formatted in accordance with a document formatting description (DFD); parsing said data, the parsing including: determining a set of tag paths, each of the tag paths being associated with at least one of the plurality of textual tokens; determining tag paths of interest, the step of determining tag paths of interest including: determining a context for each tag path of interest, said context defined by the tag path of interest and a matching pair of said container tokens within the tag path of interest; determining contiguous lists, the step of determining contiguous lists including: presenting one or more of said plurality of textual tokens as said human readable list, the step of presenting one or more of said plurality of textual tokens as said human readable list comprising at least one of: