Hierarchical Document Linking for Faster Information Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
User manuals and design documents are lengthy, complex, and often require significant effort to locate relevant information, with content spread across multiple pages and lacking clear associations between media content and text, making it difficult for users to quickly find specific information.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that processes documents to detect attributes such as font details and vector graphics, generating a hierarchical structure with navigable links and allowing for user annotations, transforming the document into a more readable and navigable format with hotspots for enhanced context.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If documents are transformed into a hierarchical structured format with navigable links, then information accessibility and navigation efficiency are improved, but device complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The document is segmented into a hierarchical structure with multiple levels ( chapters, sections, subsections) and navigable links connecting them. This segmentation allows users to quickly navigate to specific information without reading the entire document, significantly reducing information location time while the processing system handles the structural organization.
Solution Approach 2:
The document undergoes preliminary processing to detect attributes (font details, vector graphics), generate hierarchical structure, and create navigable links before user access. This pre-structuring work is performed automatically by the processing system, so when users access the document, the navigation infrastructure is already in place, reducing their time to find information without requiring complex real-time processing.
2Ease of operation
If documents include detailed attributes detection and hierarchical structure generation, then information organization and readability are improved, but processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The processing system automatically detects document attributes (font details, vector graphics), generates hierarchical structure, and creates navigable links without requiring manual intervention. The system serves itself by autonomously completing the complex processing tasks, improving ease of navigation while the processing time is optimized through automated workflows rather than manual methods.
Solution Approach 2:
The system detects and processes various document parameters including font details and vector graphics attributes to generate the hierarchical structure. By automatically analyzing these parameters and transforming them into structured navigation elements, the system improves ease of operation while managing processing time through efficient parameter detection algorithms.
3Loss of information
If media content and text are associated through hotspots and annotations, then user understanding and context provision are improved, but device complexity and annotation management increase
Solution Approach 1:
Hotspots and annotations serve as intermediary elements that connect media content with textual information. These intermediaries provide context and link related information without requiring direct integration of all document elements, reducing the complexity of the annotation system while ensuring comprehensive context availability for users.
Solution Approach 2:
The system merges media content, text, hotspots, and annotations into an integrated hierarchical structure where all elements are interconnected through navigable links. This merging ensures that context information is readily available across different document elements while managing annotation complexity through unified structural organization rather than separate management systems.
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AI summary
An example method for pre-processing documents includes receiving, by a computing device, an initial document in digital format. The method includes detecting, by the computing device and based on a computerized analysis of the initial document, one or more attributes of the initial document. The one or more attributes may include a font detail or a vector graphics, or both. The method includes generating, by the computing device and based on the detected one or more attributes, a hierarchical structure associated with the initial document, the hierarchical structure interconnecting one or more components of the initial document. The method includes transforming, by the computing device and based on the hierarchical structure, the initial document to a modified document, wherein the modified document comprises one or more navigable links that facilitate computerized navigation of the hierarchical structure. The method includes providing, by the computing device, the modified document.