US 12,265,781 B2
Facilitating conversion of a page description language representation of a correspondence to an accessible format
David Wagner, Boulder, CO (US); and Scott Mastie, Boulder, CO (US)
Assigned to Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by David Wagner, Boulder, CO (US); and Scott Mastie, Boulder, CO (US)
Filed on Mar. 10, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/182,181.
Prior Publication US 2024/0303411 A1, Sep. 12, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 40/151 (2020.01); G06F 3/0484 (2022.01); G06F 16/11 (2019.01); G06F 40/103 (2020.01); G06F 40/143 (2020.01); G06F 40/186 (2020.01); G06F 40/40 (2020.01)
CPC G06F 40/151 (2020.01) [G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 16/116 (2019.01); G06F 40/103 (2020.01); G06F 40/143 (2020.01); G06F 40/186 (2020.01); G06F 40/40 (2020.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving a correspondence in a form of an input file represented in a page description language (PDL);
identifying a correspondence type of the correspondence from among a plurality of correspondence types;
extracting, from the input file, text strings and corresponding coordinates indicative of points at which the text strings are positioned within a printable area of a page of the correspondence or an electronic equivalent thereof;
receiving information indicative of a plurality of groups of the text strings from a previously created template associated with the correspondence type, wherein each group of the plurality of groups has been specified by an accessibility user with reference to an original layout of another correspondence of the correspondence type while depicted within a graphical user interface by defining a corresponding region within the original layout containing the group; and
facilitating conversion of the input file to an accessible format by processing each group of the plurality of groups in accordance with an associated rule selected by the accessibility user from a plurality of rules and stored within the previously created template to create an output file in which the text strings within a given group of the plurality of groups are excluded or included within an element of the output file based on application of the associated rule to the given group.