Patent ID: 8112813

Claim:
A computer system for providing an interactive image document through which a user accesses text data of a digital content, the computer system comprising: an image data store comprising image data of the digital content; a text data store comprising text data corresponding to the image data stored in the image data store, wherein a given portion of text data stored in the text data store represents information in a corresponding portion of image data stored in the image data store; and a computing device in communication with the image data store and the text data store, the computing device operative to: provide an interactive image page, the interactive image page including image data retrieved from the image data store, wherein information represented in the image data of the interactive image page cannot be manipulated by a user; receive a selection of a portion of the image data of the interactive image page, the selection indicating that an access to text data representing information in the selected portion of the image data of the digital content is desired, wherein the received selection comprises a start location and an end location of the selected portion within the image data; obtain verification information related to the access to the text data; verify whether the user has a right to obtain a text portion corresponding to the selected portion of the image data of the digital content, wherein the text portion represents information in the corresponding image portion; and upon verification, retrieve from the text data store the text portion, wherein the text portion comprises text data representing information in the selected portion of the image data; and provide the retrieved text portion to the user, wherein the provided text portion can be manipulated by the user.