Reformatting text in a document for the purpose of improving readability

摘要

Systems and methods are disclosed for producing documents in a specialized format adapted to aid readability, such as word-recognition and word-processing capabilities. Marked-up documents stored in a repository are created by marking up previously unmarked-up documents according to one or more schemas, to include explicit structural information that corresponds to implicit structural information originally contained in the unmarked-up documents. A user may request a specially formatted document by selecting one of a number of available stored document formats including formatting rules or parameters to be applied to a selected one of the marked-up documents.

主权项

1. A method of supplying a book to a library, the method comprising:
marking-up unmarked-up books according to a schema, thereby generating marked-up books, each marked-up book having explicit structural information corresponding to implicit linguistic or phonetic content of words in a corresponding one of said unmarked-up books; storing said marked-up books in a repository: receiving, by a server, a customization request from a library for at least one of said marked-up books over an electronic network, said request including formatting information and information specific to said library; generating, by said server, a customer-requested formatted book in electronic form from said requested one of said marked-up books using said formatting information and said explicit structural information, the customer-requested formatted book being generated by modifying the marked-up book to add said information specific to said library and a special visual formatting corresponding to the customization request representing the implicit linguistic or phonetic content, wherein the special visual formatting includes additional visible indicators applied to the words forming cues to thereby aid reading of the book, wherein said special visual formatting is not present in the unmarked-up book corresponding to said requested one of said marked-up books, and transmitting said customer-requested formatted book over said electronic network.