Patent ID: 7024415

Claim:
A method for file conversion, comprising: reading a first file corresponding to a first application that displays the first file with a first display format, the first file comprising a first digital content item and a corresponding first indication of style to be applied to the first digital content item and a second digital content item and a corresponding second indication of style to be applied to the second digital content item, wherein the first file is not stored as a Hypertext Markup Language file; receiving a selection of at least one type of a digital content item to be removed from the first file, the type of digital content comprising at least one of revision information, graphic information, table information, header information, and footer information; modifying the first file to remove the first digital content item based on the received selection of at least one type of a digital content item; converting the modified first file to a second file comprising the second digital content item and a Hypertext Markup Language tag based on the second style indication of the first file; and modifying the second file to create a third file comprising Extensible Hypertext Markup Language tags, the third file readable by a second application that displays the third file based on the Extensible Markup Language tags, the second application being a different type of application than the first application.