Method and system for electronically viewing multi-page documents while preserving appearance of printed pages

A method, comprising:

• receiving page-heading data representing an organization of a document;
• receiving a selected item, the selected item comprising an item within the document;
• parsing the page-heading data to determine highlighting information, the highlighting information including a page of the document on which the selected item is located and a position of the selected item on the page;
• converting printing data associated with the document into a first viewable file by capturing the printing data and not by scanning hard copies of the document, the first viewable file representing the page on which the selected item is located and preserving a printed format of the document;
• and
• storing the first viewable file and the highlighting information on persistent storage.

A computer-readable medium comprising a set of computer-executable instructions, the instructions comprising instructions for:

• converting printing data associated with a document in a print queue into at least one viewable file by capturing the printing data from the print queue and not by scanning hard copies of the document, each viewable file representing one of the pages of the document and preserving a printed format of the document;
• parsing page-heading data representing an organization of the document to produce an index;
• and
• storing the at least one viewable file and the index in a persistent storage.

A computer-readable medium comprising a set of computer-executable instructions, the instructions comprising instructions for:

• receiving page-heading data representing an organization of a document;
• receiving a selected item, the selected item comprising an item within the document;
• parsing the page-heading data to determine highlighting information, the highlighting information including a page of the document on which the selected item is located and a position of the selected item on the page;
• converting printing data associated with the document into a first viewable file by capturing the printing data and not by scanning hard copies of the document, the first viewable file representing the page on which the selected item is located and preserving a printed format of the document;
• and
• storing the first viewable file and the highlighting information on persistent storage.