Method, system, and apparatus for converting numbers based upon semantically labeled strings

A system for converting a number expressed as digits to text, the system comprising:

• a memory storage;
• and
• a processing unit coupled to the memory storage, wherein the processing unit is operative to:
• execute a recognizer plug-in capable of receiving a portion of an electronic document as a string of text from an application program, analyzing the string of text to determine whether the string of text includes a number expressed as digit shapes by identifying the number expressed using digit shapes regardless of a language in which the digit shapes are expressed, and in response to determining that the string of text includes a number, semantically labeling the number with schema information by associating the number with an inline eXtensible Markup Language (XML) tag belonging to at least one semantic category;
• execute an application program for creating and editing the electronic document, the application program capable of displaying, on a display device, the string of text and an indication by a user that the number has been semantically labeled, receiving a selection of the indication, in response to receiving the selection of the indication providing a dropdown menu on the display device listing actions for converting the number contained in the semantically labeled text to one of:
• a number expressed as different digit shapes and a number to expressed as text in one of a plurality of languages, receiving the selection of an action from the dropdown menu listing, and providing the selected action and the number to an action plug-in;
• and
• execute an action plug-in capable of generating a converted number by converting the number to one of:
• a number expressed in different digit shapes and a number expressed as text in the language identified by the selected action, and replacing the number with the converted number in the string of text associated with the application program.

A computer-readable storage medium which stores a set of instructions for an application program which when executed by a computer system comprising a processing unit and a storage device performs a method for creating and editing an electronic document and for converting a number, the method executed by the set of instructions comprising:

• determining by the computer system whether a string of text within the document contains a number expressed as digit shapes by identifying the number expressed using digit shapes regardless of a language in which the digit shapes are expressed;
• in response to determining that the string of text includes the number expressed as digit shapes, semantically labeling by the computer system the number with schema information by associating the string of text with an inline eXtensible Markup Language (XML) tag belonging to at least one semantic category, indicating that the number is convertible and displaying in a user interface the number identified as digit shapes;
• generating and displaying on a display device in the user interface a list of actions for converting the semantically labeled string of text to contain the number expressed as different digit shapes, the list of actions being identified upon the schema information;
• responsive to a selection by the user of an action from the displayed list, generating by the computer system a converted number by converting the number to equivalent text in a language identified in the selection by the user and replacing each digit shape in the selected number with a corresponding different digit shape in the language identified in the selection by the user;
• and then
• inserting by the computer system the converted number into the string of text in the electronic document to replace the selected number therein expressed as digit shapes.