RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 17/099,441, titled “DEVICE DEPENDENT RENDERING OF PDF CONTENT”, filed Nov. 16, 2020, which is incorporated by reference herein for all purposes.

FIELD OF THE TECHNOLOGY DISCLOSED

The technology disclosed relates to automatically adapting content of PDF files from a print format to displays of small-format devices.

BACKGROUND

The subject matter discussed in this section should not be assumed to be prior art merely as a result of its mention in this section. Similarly, a problem mentioned in this section or associated with the subject matter provided as background should not be assumed to have been previously recognized in the prior art. The subject matter in this section merely represents different approaches, which in and of themselves can also correspond to implementations of the claimed technology.

With the rise of electronic publishing, more and more readers are viewing published documents such as magazines, newspapers, catalogs, brochures, trade and scientific journal and the like on electronic devices. These documents are generally made available to electronic publishers as portable document format (PDF) files and are formatted for print rather than viewing on electronic devices. Navigation in an electronic document described in a PDF file can be cumbersome, particularly on an electronic or computing device having a small screen such as a mobile phone or a small tablet. The PDF files can be prepared using a variety of software tools. Many of these tools do not provide additional information about the content in the PDF file that can be easily extracted and used for displaying the content of files on computing devices with small display screens. Therefore, the articles are displayed on computing devices with small screen using the page-oriented format which is not suitable for reading magazine articles on small format displays.

An opportunity arises to automatically translate content of an article from a PDF file for display on computing devices with small display screens upon accessing of the PDF file by the small-format device.

