G06F 40/103
Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents
Official title: Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents (automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191)
G06F40/103 (Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents) appears on 9,126 US grants and 10,992 published applications in this corpus.
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