Patent ID: 7856153

Claim:
A method comprising: determining, by a display module of a processor, a rate at which an image-based document is to be displayed, the image-based document including a plurality of page images; selecting, by the display module, a first set of merged page images if the rate at which the document is to be displayed is at a first rate, wherein the first set of merged page images comprises salient content from a first number of page images of the image-based document merged into one image; selecting, by the display module, a second set of merged page images if the rate at which the document is to be displayed is at a second rate, wherein the second set of merged page images comprises salient content from a second number of page images of the image-based document merged into one image, the second number being different from the first number; and serially displaying, by the display module, the selected page images on a display.