Patent ID: 7149967
Filing Date: 2006-12-12
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for creating a table version of a document having first and second overlapping text objects, comprising: recording positions of the first and second text objects in the document; dividing the document into a plurality of cells based on the recorded position of the first and second text objects; grouping contiguous cells that each contains a part of the first text object in the document, if the first text object is a text object occupying multiple cells; converting the second text object into a non-text object while maintaining the first object as a text object; grouping remaining ungrouped contiguous cells of the plurality of cells in the document, wherein the remaining ungrouped cells contains the non-text object; creating a table that represents the document based on the groupings of the plurality of cells of the document, wherein the grouped cells containing text objects are represented as text and the grouped cells containing non-text objects and overlapped objects are represented as images; and exporting the created table from one computer to another in a distributed network.