Hyperlink Indexing for Printed Documents
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Solution Overview
Problem
When printing electronic documents, hyperlinks are not captured, making it difficult for offline readers to access additional information, and if the document is scanned, the hyperlinks are lost, limiting referencing capabilities.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that receive a document with hyperlinks, parse and extract the hyperlinks, create an index page with hyperlink information, and either print this index page along with the document or embed hyperlinks into a scanned document using OCR, allowing users to refer to additional information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If hyperlinks are not included in printed documents, then the printing process is simple and fast, but offline readers cannot access additional information
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments hyperlink information from the main document content by creating a separate index page that lists all hyperlinks with their destinations. This separation allows the main document to remain simple while the index page carries the hyperlink information, resolving the contradiction between preserving information and maintaining processing simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary extraction and organization of hyperlink information before printing, creating an index page that contains all hyperlink data in advance. This preliminary action ensures that hyperlink information is preserved in the printed document without complicating the actual printing process, as the index page is prepared separately and then printed alongside the main document.
2Ease of operation
If hyperlinks are captured in printed documents, then offline readers can access additional information, but the printing process becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an index page as an intermediary between the main document and hyperlink destinations. This index page serves as a mediator that lists all hyperlinks with their destinations, allowing offline readers to access additional information without requiring complex hyperlink management in the main document. The index page handles the complexity while maintaining ease of operation for readers.
3Loss of information
If documents are scanned without preserving hyperlinks, then scanning is simple and fast, but the digital version loses referencing capability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary extraction and organization of hyperlink information before scanning, creating an index page that contains all hyperlink data in advance. This preliminary action ensures that when the document is scanned, the hyperlink information is already captured and organized, allowing the scanning process to remain simple and fast while preserving all hyperlink data for the digital version.
4Loss of information
If an index page with hyperlink information is created and printed, then hyperlink referencing is maintained, but additional printing resources are consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments hyperlink information into a separate index page, allowing the main document to be printed without additional hyperlink data. The index page contains all hyperlink information in a compact format, maintaining hyperlink accessibility while minimizing additional printing material compared to embedding full hyperlink data in every page of the main document.
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AI summary
According to aspects illustrated herein, a method for preserving one or more hyperlinks while printing a document is disclosed. The method includes receiving the document containing one or more hyper texts, wherein each hyper text is associated with a corresponding hyperlink. The document is parsed to extract the one or more hyper texts. Then information related to the one or more hyper texts is identified and extracted, the information includes a hyper text, a hyperlink corresponding to the hyper text, a page number of the hyper text and an ordinal number of occurrence of the hyper text on the page number. An index page including the information related to the one or more hyper texts is created. Finally, the index page along with the document is printed, the index page includes the one or more hyper texts and information related to the one or more hyper texts.