ANNOTATION METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS, AND RELATED SYSTEM

摘要

The invention concerns a method for annotation by a user of an electronic document accessible over a network through a document server, the method comprising: retrieval by the user of an electronic document from a user station; reactivating functions for annotation of the document on the user station; implementation by the user of said functions to create annotations and associate them with the document, said annotation function activation being triggered by an instruction integrated in the source file of the electronic document, said instruction calling the means resident on an annotation server. The invention is characterized in that the method comprises creating, in a server accessible through the annotation server, a recording comprising: an identification number corresponding to the user having produced the annotations and to the annotated electronic document; the set of data enabling to reconstruct the electronic document itself; and the set of data enabling superimposition on this electronic document of the annotations produced by the user.