1. A method for converting a fixed format document containing vector graphics and fixed format text into a flow format document, the method comprising the acts of: detecting fixed format text on a page of a fixed format document: detecting one or more vector paths on the page of the fixed format document; aggregating the one or more vector paths associated with the fixed format text into one or more lines; classifying the aggregated vector paths as one or more characteristics that are associated with the fixed format text; displaying on a page of a flow format document the fixed format text as flowable text having the one or more characteristics associated with the fixed format text; and displaying any of the detected vector paths not associated with the fixed format text as one or more graphical elements in the flow format document.