Patent Document ID: 9946690
Application ID: 13704172

Base Claim:
1. A method for converting a fixed format document into a flow format document, said method comprising the acts of: detecting an alignment of text forming a single line paragraph on a page in a fixed format document, the detecting including: defining a boundary box around the single line paragraph; performing a first comparison of a position value of a left edge of the bounding box to a position value of a left margin of the page and performing a second comparison of a position value of a right edge of the bounding box to a position value of a right margin of the page; identifying a justified alignment if the results of the first and second comparisons are substantially equivalent; when the results of the first and second comparisons are not substantially equivalent, performing: identifying a left alignment based on comparing a coordinate value of the left edge of the bounding box to a coordinate value of a left edge of a bounding box of another paragraph on the page; and displaying the text in a flow format document as a single line paragraph having the identified alignment.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein, when the results of the first and second comparisons are not substantially equivalent, and neither the justified alignment nor the left alignment are identified, additionally performing: a comparison of a left indentation value of the single line paragraph to a right indentation value of the single line paragraph; identifying a centered alignment, when the comparison indicates that the left indentation value and the right indentation value are substantially equivalent; and identifying a right alignment, when the comparison indicate that the left indentation value and the right indentation value are not substantially equivalent.