Method and apparatus for providing automated searching and linking of
electronic documents
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    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for providing automated searching and linking of electronic documents 失效
    用于提供电子文档的自动搜索和链接的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US6138129A

    公开(公告)日:2000-10-24

    申请号:US991451

    申请日:1997-12-16

    申请人: J. Andrew Combs

    发明人: J. Andrew Combs

    IPC分类号: G06F17/30 G06F17/00

    摘要: A method and apparatus for a relatively meaningful search and/or link operation to be performed within and/or between one or more electronic documents. According to one aspect of the invention, a method and apparatus is provided for extracting and storing text, image and/or location information of an electronic document. According to another aspect of the invention, a tag may be specified as label for a set of search and/or link (e.g., source and target) parameters, each having a set of "rules" associated therewith, for searching the stored text, image, and/or location information. According to yet another aspect of the invention, the set of parameters may include context (e.g., specified character/text patterns that may occur within and/or adjacent to one or more specified patterns) and/or location (e.g., a page number/range, a box on a page, a filename, tag, character/line offset, etc.) information/rules.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于在一个或多个电子文档之内和/或之间执行相对有意义的搜索和/或链接操作的方法和装置。 根据本发明的一个方面,提供一种用于提取和存储电子文档的文本,图像和/或位置信息的方法和装置。 根据本发明的另一方面,可以将标签指定为一组搜索和/或链接(例如,源和目标)参数的标签,每个参数具有与其相关联的一组“规则”,用于搜索所存储的文本, 图像和/或位置信息。 根据本发明的另一方面,该组参数可以包括上下文(例如,可能在一个或多个指定模式内和/或与一个或多个指定模式相邻的特定字符/文本模式)和/或位置(例如,页码/ 范围,页面上的框,文件名,标签,字符/行偏移量等)信息/规则。