A layout preserving online document glancing technique

Internet has become the largest repository for documents. PDF documents distribution through Internet is prevalent, as the cost is almost zero. At present, files are mostly downloaded from the Internet and users go through cursorily over entire document and then they decide to store it in their hard disk or not. To facilitate the user-document interaction, a novel document distribution technique is proposed. The proposed method creates lean documents that contain only entities that would aid the user´s decision making process, while the rest are replaced with aesthetically pleasing pseudo-text. The proposed lean documents will not only have less file size, they significantly reduce the cognitive and Internet resources requirement.