Converting digital images containing text to token-based files for rendering

A computer-implemented method for converting an electronic image into a token-based file, comprising:

• identifying tokens in the electronic image;
• classifying tokens having similar shapes into a group, to thereby form multiple token groups;
• identifying a representative token that morphologically represents the shapes of tokens in each token group, to thereby identify multiple representative tokens;
• vectorizing each representative token to create a vectorized token that mathematically represents the shape of the representative token;
• and
• associating each vectorized token with positions of the tokens represented by the vectorized token.

A computer-accessible medium having instructions encoded thereon to create a token-based file, wherein the instructions, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:

• process an image to identify tokens therein;
• classify the identified tokens into multiple token groups according to their shapes;
• for each of the token groups, create a vectorized token that mathematically represents the shapes of the tokens included in the token group;
• and
• replace the tokens represented by a vectorized token with the vectorized token.

A computer-accessible medium having instructions encoded thereon to create a token-based file, wherein the instructions, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:

• process an image to identify tokens therein;
• classify the identified tokens into multiple token groups according to their shapes;
• for each of the token groups, create a vectorized token that mathematically represents the shapes of the tokens included in the token group;
• and
• generate a set of vectorized tokens representative of the image.