Claims
- 1. A method for representing a document, the method comprising the operations of:(a) providing a processor with a first set of digital information comprising a first structured representation of the document, a plurality of image collections being obtainable from the first structured representation, each such obtainable image collection comprising at least one image, each image in each such collection being an image of at least a portion of the document; and (b) producing, via the processor, from the first set of digital information a second set of digital information comprising a second structured representation of the document, the second structured representation being a lossless representation of a particular image collection, the particular image collection being one of the plurality of image collections obtainable from the first structured representation, the second structured representation including a plurality of tokens and a plurality of positions, the second set of digital information being produced by extracting the plurality of tokens from the first structured representation, each token comprising a set of pixel data representing a subimage of the particular image collection, and determining the plurality of positions from the first structured representation, each position being a position of a token subimage in the particular image collection, a token subirnage being one of the subimages from one of the tokens, at least one token subimage having a plurality of pixels and occurring at more than one position in the image collection.
- 2. The method of claim 1, wherein operation (a) comprises providing the processor with a first structured representation selected from the group consisting of a page description language representation, a document exchange format representation, a print control language representation, and a markup language representation.
- 3. The method of claim 1 wherein operation (a) comprises providing the processor with a first structured representation that is an original representation of the document, the original representation being a representation generated by a computer program wherein the document is created.
- 4. The method of claim 1 wherein operation (a) comprises providing the processor with a font-based first structured representation of the document, and wherein operation (b) oomprises producing a fontless second structured representation of the document.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a continuation of Ser. No. 09/311,596 filed on May 14, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,275,301 commonly assigned and having common inventors, which application is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 08/752,497, filed on Nov. 8, 1996 (now U.S. Pat. No. 6,011,905, issued on Jan. 4, 2000), commonly assigned and having at least one common inventor, which application is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 08/652,864, filed on May 23, 1996 (now U.S. Pat. No. 5,884,014, issued on Mar. 16, 1999), commonly assigned and having at least one common inventor.
The following U.S. patent applications are assigned to the assignee of the present application, are related to the present application and their disclosures are incorporated herein by reference:
(A) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/752,497, filed on Nov. 8, 1996, entitled USING FONTLESS STRUCTURED DOCUMENT IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS TO RENDER DISPLAYED AND PRINTED DOCUMENTS AT PREFERRED RESOLUTIONS, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/652,864 filed on May 23, 1996, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,884,014, issued on Mar. 16, 1999, entitled FONTLESS STRUCTURED DOCUMENT IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS FOR EFFICIENT RENDERING.
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