Patent ID: 7712028

Claim:
An apparatus for generating a summary of a document, comprising: an image capture device for capturing an original image of a document; a processing device for detecting annotations made to the document prior to image capture, the annotations identifying lesser portions of text to be extracted from machine generated text of the original image of the document, the processing device determining the lesser portions of text of the document identified by the annotations to be extracted, and extracting only the lesser portions of text from the machine generated text from the original image of the document identified by the detected annotations; a summary generator for generating a summary including only the extracted lesser portions of text from the machine generated text of the document, the summary being a condensed version of the machine generated text of the original image of the document and being generated as a separate electronic image document that is different from the original image; and an image output device coupled to the summary generator and that outputs the summary for review by a user, the image output device being one of a display screen and a printer, wherein the extracted lesser portions are itemized at least based on similar annotations.