Patent Document ID: 7836399
Application ID: 11351065

Base Claim:
1. A method for recognizing a list in a vector graphics based document comprising: receiving the vector graphics based document in an original format, the original format having a set of list rendering instructions for at least one list in the vector graphics based document; parsing the vector graphics based document to determine that the at least one list exists in the vector graphics based document, wherein the parsing comprises identifying a plurality of list items, the list items identified based upon a same word indentation for a first word of respective list items, wherein the first word of respective list items follow at least one of a letter, number, and symbol indicative of the list item; and outputting the list to an output medium in a modified format, where the modified format is chosen based on the particular output medium.

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Claim 8:
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein parsing the vector graphics based document is configured to detect one or more nested lists, and wherein outputting the list comprises outputting the one or more nested lists in the modified format.