Patent ID: 7225399

Claim:
A method for converting paper reference materials into interactive reference materials comprising: providing a computer; providing a global control which indicates parameters specific to a reference document; obtaining at least one reference document in a computer readable form by scanning paper reference materials and performing text recognition to create a raw text file forming said at least one reference document; said computer inserting formatting tags into said reference document based on said global control; said computer searching, based on said parameters in said global control, said at least one reference document for a first piece of reference text, said first piece of reference text being in a first location in said at least one reference document, having a first value, and referring a human reader to a second location separate from said first location but not linking to said second location; said computer tagging said first piece of reference text with a tag indicating a reference text type and said first value; said computer searching, based on said parameters in said global control, said at least one reference document for a second piece of reference text, said second piece of reference text being in said second location in said at least one reference document, and having said first value; said computer tagging said second piece of reference text with a tag indicating a reference text type and said first value; said computer linking said first piece of reference text with said second piece of reference text based on said first value and said global control; and said computer converting said at least one reference document into an interactive reference document by converting said first piece of reference text into a hyperlink so that when a user utilizes said hyperlink, said user is taken to said second location.