Converting documents
AssigneeNCR Corporation
InventorsIan J. Ferris, Lynn Milby
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Abstract
A method of converting a document, such as a document complying with the CEN-XFS standard for Forms. The method comprises accessing format parameters; reading information from the document; parsing the read information to detect attributes and text; identifying any detected attributes not consistent with the accessed format parameters; converting any identified attributes not consistent with the accessed format parameters into attributes consistent with the accessed format parameters; and creating a converted document in which all of the attributes conform to the accessed format parameters.
Claims10
A method of converting a document, the method comprising:
- accessing format parameters;
- reading information from the document;
- parsing the read information to detect attributes and text;
- identifying any detected attributes not consistent with the accessed format parameters;
- converting any identified attributes not consistent with the accessed format parameters into attributes consistent with the accessed format parameters;
- and
- creating a converted document in which all of the attributes conform to the accessed format parameters.
A method of converting a document complying with a first implementation of a CEN-XFS standard to a second implementation of the CEN-XFS standard, the method comprising:
- reading information from a document complying with the first implementation of the CEN-XFS standard;
- parsing the read information to ascertain text and position information;
- converting the position information to a format used by the second implementation of the XFS standard;
- and
- creating a new document comprising the ascertained text and the converted position information so that a service provider operating according to the second implementation is operable to render the text.
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