Space font: using glyphless font for searchable text documents

A system that facilitates highlighting search terms in an electronic document image, comprising:

• a scanner that scans a document and embeds glyphless font size information into an electronic image of the document;
• a searcher with an optical character recognition (OCR) component that identifies a search term in the document image in response to a user query;
• and
• a processor that generates a highlight block of a variable width and overlays the highlight block on identified search terms in the document image.

A scanning platform, comprising:

• one or more xerographic components that execute instructions for performing a xerographic process;
• a scanner that scans a document and embeds glyphless font size information, which comprises character dimension information describing dimensions of all characters in a given font, into an electronic image of the document;
• a searcher with an optical character recognition (OCR) component that identifies a search term in the document image in response to a user query;
• and
• a processor that generates a highlight block having a width substantially equal to the sum of the widths of the characters in the search term and overlays the highlight block on identified search terms in the document image.