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AssigneeIssuu, Inc.
InventorsSøren D. Thomsen, Anders H. Madsen, Søren Vind, Mads Sejersen, Peter Assentorp
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Roughly described, a viewer application is provided for viewing a PDF document on a screen of a device such as a mobile phone or tablet. The viewer application may operate in page mode or in text mode. In page mode the original layout is maintained, and navigation assistance is provided by use of a navigation pane indicating the contents of the screen with a superimposed frame. Display of the navigation pane is controllable by the user. In page mode a selected text column is scrolled and zoomed to optimize reading. In text mode, text is extracted from the document and reformatted in text view to be continuous and complete in correct reading order, and images and advertising may be excluded. The user may toggle between page mode and text mode. The viewer application is implemented in software to by executed by a processor on the device.
A hand held device, comprising:
A non-transitory computer readable medium for use with a small screen device which includes a display screen, and for use further with a PDF document including a current page, the current page having an original layout which includes text, the medium having stored thereon:
A method of presenting a PDF file on a display screen of a hand held device, comprising a processor of the hand held device:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.