Method and apparatus for identifying words described in a portable electronic document

摘要: A method and apparatus for identifying words stored in a portable electronic document. digital computation stores page of document including characters text segments that have not been identified as words. word mechanism analyzes the objects linked list. The identifies from list by analyzing breaks gaps between using position data associated with segments. are sorted if necessary. present invention receives segment having multiple data, x y coordinates each segment. object is created segment, entered into Words then data. added to above steps repeated until end reached. can be used searching