Reformatting text in a document for the purpose of improving readability
AssigneeAccessible Publiahing Systems Pty Ltd
InventorsGregory Lyle Duncan, Christopher Colin Stephen
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Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed for producing documents in a specialized format adapted to aid readability, such as word-recognition and word-processing capabilities. Marked-up documents stored in a repository are created by marking up previously unmarked-up documents according to one or more schemas, to include explicit structural information that corresponds to implicit structural information originally contained in the unmarked-up documents. A user may request a specially formatted document by selecting one of a number of available stored document formats including formatting rules or parameters to be applied to a selected one of the marked-up documents.
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A method of supplying a book to a library, the method comprising:
- marking-up unmarked-up books according to a schema, thereby generating marked-up books, each marked-up book having explicit structural information corresponding to implicit linguistic or phonetic content of words in a corresponding one of said unmarked-up books;
- storing said marked-up books in a repository:
- receiving, by a server, a customization request from a library for at least one of said marked-up books over an electronic network, said request including formatting information and information specific to said library;
- generating, by said server, a customer-requested formatted book in electronic form from said requested one of said marked-up books using said formatting information and said explicit structural information, the customer-requested formatted book being generated by modifying the marked-up book to add said information specific to said library and a special visual formatting corresponding to the customization request representing the implicit linguistic or phonetic content, wherein the special visual formatting includes additional visible indicators applied to the words forming cues to thereby aid reading of the book, wherein said special visual formatting is not present in the unmarked-up book corresponding to said requested one of said marked-up books, and
- transmitting said customer-requested formatted book over said electronic network.
A system for producing a document comprising:
- a non-transitory computer-readable data storage repository storing marked-up documents, each document having been obtained by marking up an unmarked-up document according to one or more mark-up schemas, and each marked-up document comprising explicit structural reformation corresponding to implicit linguistic or phonetic content of words in said unmarked-up document;
- a non-transitory computer-readable format storage medium storing a customized formatting specification;
- a processor in communication with the data storage repository and the format storage medium;
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- a memory operatively connected to the processor, wherein the memory stores instructions that cause the processor to generate a user-requested document from a user-requested one of said marked-up documents using the customized formatting specification and that modifies words or characters of the requested one of said marked-up documents according to said customized formatting specification such that the user-requested document includes a visual formatting not present in the unmarked-up document corresponding to said user-requested marked-up document, at least some of said visual formatting representing the implicit linguistic or phonetic content, wherein the visual formatting includes additional visible indicators applied to the words forming cues to thereby aid reading of the document.
A method of producing and distributing documents comprising the steps of:
- marking-up unmarked-up documents according to a schema, thereby generating marked-up documents, each marked-up document having explicit structural Information corresponding to implicit, linguistic or phonetic content of words in a corresponding one of said unmarked-up documents;
- receiving a user request for one of said marked-up documents, said user request including customized formatting information;
- generating a user-requested formatted document from said marked-up document using said customized formatting information and said explicit structural information, at least some of the words and/or characters of the generated user-requested formatted document having a visual formatting corresponding to said customized formatting information and different from the corresponding unmarked-up document, and at least some of said visual formatting representing said implicit linguistic or phonetic content, wherein the visual formatting includes additional visible indicators applied to the words forming cues to thereby aid reading of the document.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.