System and method for providing online versions of print-medium publications

Apparatus for providing an electronic screen version of a print publication, the print publication having at least one page, said at least one page having a multi-element layout, the electronic screen version being adapted for reading from a screen, the apparatus comprising an electronic processor, the electronic processor comprising:

• an input for obtaining an electronic image of a page of said print publication, the page comprising a plurality of items arranged in said multi-element layout, the multi-element layout being a two dimensional layout of said items in said page characterized by print version boundaries separating between said items;
• a layout parser adapted to parse said page layout, said parsing comprising identifying said items arranged therein, said identifying comprising identifying said print version boundaries of said items within said layout, and text belonging to said items;
• a text sizing unit adapted to select text sizes for respective items, said text sizes being variable with respect to said layout, said sizes to render said items to be readable when the text is shown on screen as part of said page, and
• a text flowing unit operatively connected to said text sizing unit and adapted to flow text of a respective item on said page at any one of said selected text sizes into screen version boundaries of said respective item, thereby to fill a space between said screen version boundaries with more or less text of said respective item depending on a respectively selected text size, said screen version boundaries corresponding to said print version boundaries to form said multi-element layout in said screen version, said boundaries defining each item on said page such that said flowing occurs within said boundaries on said page, wherein said items comprise body text and captions being separate ones of said elements, and wherein text belonging to each one of body text and captions are arranged for reflowing according to respectively different predetermined rules, thereby to provide an electronic screen version of said image of said page, retaining said multi-element layout and having text within said layout and said boundaries which are sized to be readable when said layout is shown on a screen.