Persistent selection marks

摘要

Methods and method and apparatus are disclosed herein for marking electronic documents with one or more persistent selection marks. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving (201) input representing one or more marks on a document image; determining (203) whether the one or more marks represents a selection of a persistent selectable area that delineates information in the document image; and storing (204) data corresponding to the selection to enable a user in the future to obtain the information in the document image by performing an action with respect to the one or more marks.