Aaron Cooper

The popularity of e-books and other electronic documents has increased among readers such as legal practitioners, medical practitioners, students, and others in recent years. Some of these readers maintain a printed version of a document as well as an electronic version of the document. Many readers have grown accustomed to annotating printed documents by highlighting and underlining portions of text, writing notes in the margins, writing notes between lines of printed text, crossing out… Show more

The popularity of e-books and other electronic documents has increased among readers such as legal practitioners, medical practitioners, students, and others in recent years. Some of these readers maintain a printed version of a document as well as an electronic version of the document. Many readers have grown accustomed to annotating printed documents by highlighting and underlining portions of text, writing notes in the margins, writing notes between lines of printed text, crossing out printed text, and the like. While conventional e-books and other electronic documents sometimes allow for digital annotations to be added directly via a reading device, a reader often must continue to refer to a printed version of a document that he or she has initially annotated, as these electronic document platforms do not enable synchronization of annotations between a printed document and an electronic version of the printed document.

Abstract

An image of a printed document portion is provided to a synchronizer. The synchronizer retrieves an electronic version of the printed document and identifies an electronic text portion that is textually similar to a printed text portion. The synchronizer detects an annotation in the printed document portion and inserts a corresponding digital annotation into the electronic document. Show less

Exemplary embodiments are generally directed to navigable layering of viewable areas corresponding to a hierarchical structure of computer-readable content. In exemplary embodiments, a stack of viewable areas including a first viewable area and a second viewable area can be rendered on a display within a footprint area. An order of the viewable areas in the stack can correspond to a hierarchical relationship of computer-readable content and the viewable areas can include information associated… Show more

Exemplary embodiments are generally directed to navigable layering of viewable areas corresponding to a hierarchical structure of computer-readable content. In exemplary embodiments, a stack of viewable areas including a first viewable area and a second viewable area can be rendered on a display within a footprint area. An order of the viewable areas in the stack can correspond to a hierarchical relationship of computer-readable content and the viewable areas can include information associated with the hierarchical relationship. The second viewable area in the stack can be adjusted, for example, by resizing and/or repositioning the second viewable area, based on a compression criteria to accommodate the viewable areas of the stack within the footprint. Show less

Systems and techniques are disclosed that allow a user to enter a query in a query input region of a graphical user interface and respond to the query by automatically directing it to an appropriate database, saving a user from having to choose among the myriad databases within the system. The system provides shareable folders for not only selected documents or excerpts from documents, but also for annotations and markups associated with documents. The system also enables a user to set… Show more

Systems and techniques are disclosed that allow a user to enter a query in a query input region of a graphical user interface and respond to the query by automatically directing it to an appropriate database, saving a user from having to choose among the myriad databases within the system. The system provides shareable folders for not only selected documents or excerpts from documents, but also for annotations and markups associated with documents. The system also enables a user to set permissions as to whether to allow documents, as well annotations and markups, private or publicly available to other users. Further, the system allows a user to specify an action that is to occur once a particular event occurs affecting a document, annotation or markup. Show less