Method and apparatus for providing automated searching and linking of electronic documents
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Oct 24, 2000
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Dec 16, 1997
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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.
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