563 results about "Portable document format" patented technology

A method and apparatus for displaying the evolution of an electronic document (e.g. word-processing document, portable-document-format file, spreadsheet, drawing, and the like), containing tracked changes, is disclosed. In accordance with the disclosed method and apparatus, the revisions of an electronic document may be treated as parent frames. In between the parent frames, child frames may be constructed from the combined images of their parent frames. To form a child frame, an image of a parent frame has a degree of translucency as it is combined with the translucent image of the other parent frame, such that every child frame contains traces of the images of both its parent frames. An input device (e.g. keyboard, mouse, touchpad, stylus, voice activation, and the like) may be used to control the frame visible to the user at any one time. The user may use the input device to traverse the frames at various speeds and in either direction, creating the visual illusion that a certain revision of the document is being morphed into its future revisions—or stripped off its changes as it is morphed into previous revisions—depending on the direction chosen by the user.

An online voice messaging service that integrates all tools needed for an advertising sales representative to resell to their customers, in real time, a blind “ad box” including a temporary anonymous toll-free phone number with attached Internet Voice & Data Messaging (IVDM) service for collecting ad responses, such that the toll-free phone number can be incorporated into the text of the customer's advertisement as it is being booked. The software includes a portal or web interface that facilitates reselling of the service via a channel of resellers, such as media companies with sales representatives that have a service agreement with the service. The software also includes a separate portal for direct sales. Various value-added, user-options are provided including notifications of new messages, the ability to receive rental and / or credit applications, payments from customers, management of multiple ad boxes with one logon, and to retrieve messages as .wav files, emails as .txt files, and faxes as .pdf (or similar) files.

A system, method and computer program product for the reflowing of content in a structured portable document format (PDF) document in its native format, including an application for adding and / or deleting content in the PDF document; a reflow mechanism in communication with the application and configured for reflowing content immediately following the added and / or deleted content until the end of the document. The reflowing for the added content includes shifting existing content after the added content to a physical location in the document immediately following the added content, and the reflowing for the deleted content includes shifting existing content after the deleted content to a physical location in the document to where the deleted content was originally located; and displaying the resulting document. The adding and / or deleting of the content and the reflowing of the content are performed while the document is maintained in its native format.

In some embodiments, automatic signature generation for malicious PDF files includes: parsing a PDF file to extract script stream data embedded in the PDF file; determining whether the extracted script stream data within the PDF file is malicious; and automatically generating a signature for the PDF file.

A system and method for analyzing and reporting data from multiple sources is provided. The system is a foundation for an analytical platform that covers not only traditional relational data, but also a new generation of extensible data formats designed for the web, such as those based on XML (FIXML, FpML, ebXML, XBRL, ACORD, etc.), as well as HTML, E-mail, Excel, PDF, and others. In a preferred embodiment, the eXtensible on-line analytical processing (XOLAP), is a scalable client / server platform that allows the multi-dimensional analysis of modern data types, as well as traditional relational data, by bringing them all into an internal common XML-based model, without the time and expense of creating a data warehouse.

In various embodiments of the present invention, documents (such as PDF documents) are converted into HTML 5 (and CSS 3) formats and integrated into existing HTML 5 web pages in a manner that preserves the original fonts embedded within the documents. The fonts can also be integrated or embedded (e.g., via the standard HTML “iframe” tag) into other web pages. The original appearance of the source document is maintained, the text is preserved as searchable text, and the document is integrated into a web page that can be searched, zoomed, scrolled, printed, etc., utilizing standard web browser controls. As a result, a significantly increased “ad inventory” is enabled, wherein advertisements can be integrated between the individual pages (or even within a page) of the document. In addition, the resulting document (independent of its format) can be passively shared with desired members of a user's external social networks (as well as any social network within the host website), along with other activities and behavior performed by the user on the website hosting the document.

A system, method, and computer program for automatically identifying, parsing, and interpreting tabular data from unstructured documents stored in various formats such as ASCII text, Unicode text, HTML, PDF text, and PDF image format is provided. A set of table identification, parsing / tokenizing, and interpreting / mapping rules are developed with grammar descriptors. These rules are then applied to a set of documents to identify a table, parse the content of the table, and interpret the parsed content, if required, thereby standardizing the tabular data.

A method for extracting Anchorable Information Units (AIUs), from a Portable Document Format (PDF) file, which may either be created using either an editor or by scanning in documents. The method includes parsing the portable document format document into textual portions and non-text portions, and extracting structure from the textual portions and the non-text portions. The method further includes determining text within textual portions, and text the non-text portions, and hyperlinking a plurality of keywords within the textual portions and non-text portions to a related document.

A system and method for designing or customizing a product, web page, or other item, via a global computer network. The system includes a web server, a client computer, a PDF rendering engine, and a manufacturing computer. A user may select preliminary design choices form a web page at the client computer. After preliminary design choices are made, a web-based design editor allows customization of many different features of the designed product. The design editor may include drag & drop capabilities for repositioning design elements and preferably needs little or no client-server interaction during product customization. A PDF rendering engine generates a PDF file describing the designed invention, and the PDF may be used to directly drive manufacturing equipment to produce the product. The web-based design system may be especially useful in designing printed or graphical products such as business cards, stationary, and stamps.

Systems and methods are described which produce a catalog from a previously existing database. The method defines catalog data fields and links same to the data fields of the database. In one embodiment, the method scans the database for its dat fields and automatically uses same as the catalog data fields. This improves the efficiency of catalog production because a publisher need not be trained as to what data is in the database. The method further automatically formats the data from the data base into a catalog. In another embodiment, the method automatically produces a table of contents and an index. The present method can produce the catalog in multiple formats, including electronic, portable document format, rich text format, and printed.

A computer system executing a method for performing reusable software application development comprises integrating a data processing system, providing a set of keywords and attributes, and declaring a set of executable specifications using the keywords and attributes, further comprising generating a program code, instantiating an object code, generating a testable functionality result, generating at least one unit test, generating an implementation documentation output, generating a performance statistics output, and generating a project metrics in the data processing system. The step of providing a set of keywords and attributes comprises generating a set of user interface forms, fields, and validation rules, generating a library of structured query language statements, generating a library of rules for generating dynamic structured query language statements, generating one of a web browser report, a file-based report, and a portable document format report, generating a library of security rules and permission statements, and generating database schemata.

A system and method for relating unstructured data in portable document format to external structured data. A software component layered on top of an existing PDF document to bridge static information in the document to dynamic information in an external IT system. A PDF document may be parsed and “hotspotted” to provide clickable areas that allow for windows to show structured data without adding hyperlinks to the PDF document. Input information is used to provide descriptions of items of interest that are to be used as hotspots which are located in the document and optionally visually marked. The input information may be in the form of a general regular expression for example. Types of unstructured PDF files include manuals, brochures, etc. Types of structured data include material, business process, finance, or any other type of data including enterprise data. Dynamic data is thus obtained for a static PDF document. May also seamlessly mine PDF or other document files stored in a data repository without presentation to the user in the form of a view

Techniques for electronic signature process management are described. Some embodiments provide an electronic signature service (“ESS”) configured to manage electronic signature processes represented by way of templates. In some embodiments, the ESS transmits a URL or other identifier of a template that specifies required electronic signature data, such as a singer name and / or signature. Then, the ESS dynamically prepares a form based on a received request for the identified template. Next, the ESS receives the electronic signature data by causing the form to be presented by a Web browser or other client. In some embodiments, the ESS and associated client systems perform these techniques without use of a Portable Document Format processing module.

A method of making a Web-DVD which integrates computer-based content, such as Web links / HTML content or images, with DVD-Video content by using a graphical user interface (GUI) is disclosed. The method provides a software application that allows a developer to add highly integrated computer-based content, such as, but not limited to, HTML content such as Web site links and images, PDF files and / or Power Point files, to a predetermined DVD-Video content with the developer using the GUI to create a Web-DVD instead of using complex JavaScript or HTML commands or programming language. The software application writes a series of DVD-ROM files, based on the developer's selection, e.g., “point and click,” of the GUI options, that create an interaction between the DVD-Video content and the computer-based content or HTML content.

Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for generating 3D views of 2D images are disclosed. Image data representing a 2D map may be included in an input document in a portable document format, along with embedded geospatial information related to the map. A document-based 3D translator may extract image data and other information from the input document and may translate the image into a map projected on a 3D model of the Earth's surface, using embedded location and / or extent information. Additional information may be projected on the map image or displayed as a height, texture, or color, or as separate, anchored, or floating text. Image data representing the 3D view may be output to the same or a different document file. The methods may be implemented in a system comprising a CPU and / or a GPU, and / or as program instructions, stored on computer-readable media, executable by the CPU and / or GPU.

A method and system for selective reprint of individual records in a variable data printing operation in which a variable data print job defined by an original digital document having a plurality of records to be printed is provided to the printing device (2). The variable data print job is run on the printing device (2) and the printed documents are examined to select records to reprint. A parameter (64) that identifies the records to reprint is determined and applied to the original digital document (50) using a data transformation engine (60). The data transformation engine (60) transforms the original digital document (50) into a new (70) or revised (50′) digital document including the records to reprint and provides the print job defined by the new (70) or revised (50′) digital document to the printing device (2) for selective reprint. The digital document (50) is an electronic file having a digital content component (51) encoded in PDF format, and a digital markup file component (52) specified using XML. The data transformation engine (60) applies a data transform to the digital markup file (52) based on XSLT.

Most documents that are in use today embed or link to animated content. Presently, a large percentage of online content is hypertext markup language (HTML) and many HTML documents embed animations. The aforesaid online content is amenable to printing. However, embedding animated content in a document will lead to information loss when the document is printed. Users cannot print the animations or the videos embedded in documents. Therefore, there is provided a method and system for automatically finding animated content embedded in documents such as web pages, slide presentations, word processing documents, and PDF documents, that are being displayed to a user, replacing the animated content by a printable version, such as a keyframe, and a unique code, and assigning each animation a URL, to allow the users to retrieve the animations via a website on computer displays or mobile devices as they read the printed document.

An adaptive contrast enhancement (ACE) method and apparatus provide a natural enhancement in accordance with the time-varying characteristics of a video sequence. Characteristics of a time varying video sequence are specified and a nonlinear transform over the input video sequence is performed to enhance mainly the contrast of the input. A probability density function (PDF) of a time varying input video sequence is computed and then some predetermined video parameters relating to contrast is extracted from the PDF. Based upon the extracted video parameters, a nonlinear transform function is then constructed and updated as a look up table (LUT), which is synchronized with the associated video picture or field SYNC signal. The transform LUT is then applied to the input video to provide an enhanced video output signal.

This invention relates to a system and method for embedding and maintaining native shape file and cartographic, or mapping data from a Geographic Information System within a portable document format file. Once this data has been embedded, it can be viewed and worked with using PDF applications such as Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader. The invention also discloses a system and methodology for the export of embedded native shape file format coordinates, layers and data objects from within the Portable Document Format (PDF) along with any associated vector red-lines, markups, text edits and database edits made directly to the embedded shape file objects for export back into GIS applications and other applications. The invention utilizes the PDF file format as a true GIS data exchange medium.

A process is provided to prepare production data for a print job. In one embodiment of the present invention, the production data includes an electronic document defined by a page description language (PDL). The electronic document is stored in a PDL image file, such as a Postscript file, a PDF file, or the like. A still image proxy, which may be a JPEG file, a GIF file, a PNG file, or the like, is created of the PDL image file. An image display of the still image proxy is electronically manipulated. Information about the manipulations are recorded and subsequently used to revise the PDL image file so as to match the PDL image file to the manipulations made to the image display of the still image proxy.

A system and method for payroll processing. In one embodiment, the system includes a first database, a second database, and a processor operably connected to the first and second databases. The first database contains information about an employer, and the second database contains a PDF template. The processor is operable to create a filable PDF tax form from the PDF template, with the filable PDF tax form including data retrieved from and / or calculated from the first database. The method of the present invention involves the steps of retrieving with the processor a PDF template from the second database and at least one data from the first database, and then producing a filable PDF tax form from the retrieved PDF template and from the retrieved and / or calculate data from the first database. The present invention provides an employer with control over the generation, validation, correction, completion, and even filing of the employer's tax forms, and creates forms viewable and printable by a variety of systems.

A system and related techniques generate alternative search terms derived from a set of search results. A user may input a set of search terms such as keywords or other inputs, and receive a set of search results back, for instance in rank order of estimated relevance to the user's search terms and search intention. In addition to the hyperlink or other results may have associated with them a set of selectable alternative search links, for instance indicating “show me more with titles like this” when for instance a Web page title contains the user's search terms. Other results may present other attributes, depending on the evaluated distinctiveness potential alternative information content of attributes of that Web page or other result, which attributes may further include, for example, the presence of image files, PDF™ files, audio or video files or attachments, Web pages or other hits indicating certain date ranges, or other attributes or characteristics. In embodiments an attribute or attribute of a result may be assessed for inclusion as an alternative search attributes or limiter based on the attribute's deviation in an attribute space from an average of the attributes of the original set of search results, or otherwise. A user may click or otherwise select the alternative search suggestion, for instance indicating “show me more PDFs” and be presented with an updated set of search results containing Web pages or other hits, links or results each of which is, contains or has attached a file or content of that type. Users may thus receive categories of search results more closely aligned with their search intent when characteristic attributes may be a factor in desired content.

Systems and methods for data compression which facilitate the diagnosis and treatment of neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders. The methods comprise performing the following operations by a computing device: generating Normalized Data ("ND") from Original Data ("OD") that defines a Normalized Waveform ("NW") that is unitless and scaled from zero to one; processing ND to extract Micro-Movement Data ("MMD") defining a Micro-Movement Waveform ("MMW") comprising a plurality of MMD points; and generating compressed data comprising a stochastic signature of MMW. Each MMD point determined based on a value of a peak of NW and a value representing an average of all data point values between a first valley of NW immediately preceding the peak and a second valley of NW immediately following the peak. The stochastic signature is defined by empirically estimated values of at least one parameter representing a Probability Distribution Function ("PDF") of a continuous family of PDFs.

A medical information device includes a portable USB memory drive adapted for detachable connection with a USB port of a computer. A current medical profile Portable Document Format (PDF) file is stored on the portable USB memory drive unencrypted and without password protection. The current medical profile PDF file contains information relevant to delivering emergency aid to an associated person in the event of a medical emergency. Visual indicia are coupled with the portable USB memory drive to alert emergency personnel that the portable USB removable memory drive contains information relevant to delivering emergency aid to the associated person.

An apparatus and method for managing quality of service (QoS) of a service flow in a wireless communication system are provided. A method of operating a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system includes receiving QoS policy information of mobile stations (MSs) from a network entity including a policy decision function (PDF) or from neighbor BSs, and storing the QoS policy information; detecting a mobile station attempting connection re-establishment; upon detecting the mobile station attempting connection re-establishment, evaluating a QoS policy of the mobile station; and controlling a state of a service flow generated for the mobile station according to the QoS policy.

A method of producing of a two-dimensional probability density function eye diagram and Bit Error Rate eye arrays generates a two-dimensional PDF array of a correlated waveform record of a data pattern under test which is convolved with a two-dimensional probability density function (PDF) array of the uncorrelated jitter and noise in the data pattern under test. The resulting aggregate two dimensional PDF array of the correlated waveform record pattern with uncorrelated jitter and noise is divided into unit intervals and the unit intervals are summed to generated a two-dimensional PDF eye diagram array. The two-dimensional PDF eye diagram is processed to generate a two-dimensional Bit Error Rate eye array.

The invention discloses a portable document format (PDF) document form identification method. The method comprises the steps of acquiring character sets in a page, combining the character sets in rows, and establishing a row set; extracting horizontal lines and vertical lines in a page path, and establishing a line set; detecting suspected form titles in the row set and suspected form lines in the line set; if both the suspected form titles and the suspected form lines exist, identifying the form by using a region growth method based on the form titles and the line set; if only the suspected form lines exist, firstly detecting an all line form and then detecting a three line form by using the line set and the row set; if only the suspected form titles exist, identifying the form by using a region growing method based on the form titles and the row set; if neither the suspected form lines nor the suspected form titles exist, determining that the page has no form; and detecting form attached elements like a form header, form notes and so on, and outputting a form identification result of the page. According to the method, the form title, form lines and form character arrangement characteristic are deemed as three characteristics of the form, and the form can be located accurately in a complicated page layout with multiple forms on one page by adopting the method of regional parallel growth.

A method for producing a Portable Document Format (PDF) document from data in an Extensible Markup Language (XML) includes the steps of providing an Extensible Stylesheet Language Template (XSLT) transformer having an input and an output and being adapted to respond to XSLT instructions to vary the format of data received at the input. The XML data is introduced to the XSLT transformer at the input while XSLT instructions are provided to the transformer. Responding to the XSLT instructions, the XSLT transformer varies the format of the XML data at the input and provides at the output data in a Form Document Format (FDF) format. This data can be merged into a PDF form to produce the PDF document. The PDF form can be produced by scanning in order to further facilitate this process. An associated apparatus includes the XSLT template, XSLT transformer, a PDF form reader and a printer. A scanner can be used to scan a particular form and thereby produce the PDF form.

The invention enables multimodal cognitive communications, collaboration, consultation and instruction between and among heterogeneous networked teams of persons, machines, devices, neural networks, robots and algorithms during various stages of medical disease management, including detection, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, measurement, monitoring and reporting. The invention enables both synchronous and asynchronous multiparty collaboration with multichannel, multiplexed streaming imagery data, including interactive curation, multisensory annotation and metadata tagging, as well as multi-formatted encapsulation, saving and sharing of collaborated imagery data as packetized augmented intelligence. The invention acquires both live stream and archived medical modality imagery from network-connected medical devices, cameras, signals and sensors, as well as multiomic data [phenotypic, genomic, metabolomic, pathomic, radiomic, radiopathomic and radiogenomic] maps and clinical data sets from structured reports and clinical documents, including biometric maps and movies, hapmaps, heat maps and data stream visualizations. The invention also acquires both medical and non-medical streaming imagery data from image data repositories, documents and structured reports, workstations and mobile devices, as well as from wearable computing, signals and sensors. The invention enables networked teams to interactively communicate, concurrently collaborate and bi-directionally exchange multichannel multiplexed imagery data streams, singly or together, in real time or asynchronously, generally by curating, annotating and tagging imagery information objects. The invention encapsulates and saves collaborated imagery data, together with multisensory annotations and metadata tags, in standard file formats as packetized augmented intelligence. The invention enables recursive cognitive enrichment of clinical cognitive vismemes, and saves packetized imagery information objects, multisensory annotations and metadata tags in native file formats [PDF, MPEG, JPEG, XML, XMPP, QR,TIFF, RDF, RDF / XML, SVG and DAE] as well as in formats compliant with standards for digital communications in medicine [DICOM]. The invention enables live stream multicasting of multimodal cognitive instruction and collaborative knowledge exchange with multisensory [visual, auditory, haptic] annotation of streaming imagery data, as well as secure, encrypted transmission of streaming augmented intelligence across file sharing data networks for informatics-enabled learning, specialist skills acquisition and accelerated knowledge exchange.

The invention discloses a PDF form extraction method. According to the technical scheme, the method comprises the steps of analyzing a PDF document by a page number to obtain all image data, first line data and character data, processing the image data in sequence according to the page number by adopting an image identification algorithm, and obtaining second line data corresponding to form data from the image data with the form data; processing the first line data and the second line data in sequence according to the page number by adopting a graphic algorithm, thereby obtaining form frame data with form row data and column data; performing clustering processing on the character data by adopting a clustering algorithm to obtain text data with a character string set; and obtaining all the form data in the PDF document through final all form frames and all text data. According to the method for extracting forms in the PDF document, the accuracy and efficiency of extracting the forms in the PDF document are improved, and more accurate form data can be obtained; and the method is suitable for the field with higher requirements on the accuracy and efficiency of extracting the form data.