Document Layer Extraction for Mobile Devices

A mobile device implemented for independent layer editing of layers from a multi-layered image, the mobile device comprising:

• a memory to store layer previews of the layers of the multi-layered image received from an image service for display at the mobile device;
• a processor to implement a mobile file browser configured to:
• receive layer previews of the layers of the multi-layered image from the image service for display at the mobile device;
• receive selected layers of the multi-layered image as user selections of one or more of the layer previews displayed in a user interface of the mobile file browser;
• communicate identifiers of the selected layers to the image service that generates a component representation of layer extractions that are each a full resolution image of a selected layer of the multi-layered image;
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• receive the component representation of the layer extractions that are independently editable and correspond to the selected layers of the multi-layered image for use with an image editing application on the mobile device.

A computing device of an image service implemented for layer extraction of layers from a multi-layered image for independent layer editing at a mobile device, the computing device comprising:

• memory to maintain the multi-layered image;
• a processor to implement an extraction application to:
• generate a layer extraction as a full resolution image of each of the layers of the multi-layered image;
• generate a component representation of the layer extractions that correspond to selected layers of the multi-layered image that have been selected and identified at the mobile device, the layer extractions being independently editable in the component representation;
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• communicate the component representation of the layer extractions that are independently editable and correspond to the selected layers of the multi layered image to the mobile device for use with an image editing application on the mobile device.