May 6, 2008
Better Reading on the Small Screen
A research project could help people transfer paper documents to their phones and read them more easily. MIT Technology Review reports.
"In a recent demonstration, researchers showed how the technology, called Seamless Documents, could store a scanned document in a database and analyze its structure and content.
The analysis identifies sections and paragraphs, and automatically extracts key phrases that summarize the sections. So when a person pulls up the document on a phone, she can jump to a section labeled with a keyword, or just skip to the last paragraph on a page.
In addition, as the user scrolls through the document, software on the phone automatically resizes images, section headers, and plain text, as different elements of the document layout come into view."
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