Method for selecting user desirable content from web pages

A method of selecting user desirable content from a web page for printing comprising:

• receiving a web page;
• representing the web page as a Document Object Module (DOM) tree;
• computing visual and coordinate information of each Document Object Module (DOM) node within the Document Object Module (DOM) tree;
• determining the desirable Document Object Module (DOM) path;
• determining the desirable Document Object Module (DOM) node from the desirable Document Object Module (DOM) path;
• and
• selecting a single Document Object Module (DOM) node with the highest final score;
• and
• outputting the user desirable content to a printer for printing.

A web page analysis device for selection of the user desirable content of a web page comprising:

• a memory for storing a user desirable content selection algorithm for selection of user desirable content from a web page;
• a processing unit for accepting the user desirable content selection algorithm from the memory and executing the user desirable content selection algorithm;
• and
• a network adapter for receiving a web page from a web page server.