GB2589254A

GB2589254A - Digital document management system

Info

Publication number: GB2589254A
Application number: GB2019953.5A
Authority: GB
Inventors: Kam Yiu Lo John
Original assignee: Collatr Ltd
Current assignee: Collatr Ltd
Priority date: 2019-05-31
Filing date: 2019-05-31
Publication date: 2021-05-26
Also published as: WO2019243926A1; GB202019953D0; CN112639762A

Abstract

A method and system for managing digital documents. A plurality of digital documents are received in a specified order, each digital document aggregating at least two sequential pages and being received in a memory store by a processor of a computing device. At least one index is generated and stored in the memory store the index comprising separate entries corresponding to each digital document. The specified order of the digital documents and pages thereof are maintained upon modifying the aggregation of at-east some of the pages of one or more digital documents of the plurality of digital documents. Also, the original aggregation information of the pages of the digital documents is maintained upon modifying the specified order of the digital documents.

Claims

1 . A method for managing digital documents; the method comprising: receiving in a memory store coupled with a processor of a computing device, a plurality of digital documents in a specified order, each digital document aggregating at least two sequential pages; generating and storing at least one index comprising separate entries corresponding to each digital document in the specified order; wherein despite modification to the aggregation of at least some of the pages of one or more digital documents of the plurality of digital documents, the specified order of the digital documents, the original aggregation information of the pages of the digital documents and the corresponding index entries thereof are maintained.

2. The method for managing a plurality of digital documents according to claim 1 wherein the digital documents are electronic documents in portable document format (PDF).

3. The method for managing a plurality of digital documents according to claim 1 wherein modifying the specified order of the digital documents initiates an update to the corresponding index entries thereof.

4. The method for managing a plurality of digital documents according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the modifying the aggregation of at least some of the pages within at least one digital document is selected from the group comprising combining at least some of the pages from a first document with the pages of a second document and extracting at least some of the pages from a first digital document to create at least one or more new digital document(s).

5. The method for managing a plurality of digital documents according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the modifying of the aggregation of at least some of the pages within at least one digital document is user specified.

6. The method for managing a plurality of digital documents according to claim 5, wherein the user specified modification to the aggregation of at least some of the pages of an existing document creates a new document comprising an aggregation of the selected pages and a corresponding index entry.

7. The method for managing digital documents according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the at least one index is a first index comprising a first plurality of entries corresponding to a first plurality of documents; and wherein the method further comprises creating a second index comprising a second plurality of entries corresponding to a second plurality of documents; and inserting into at least one of the first and second index an entry and corresponding document from the other index.

8. The method for managing a plurality of digital documents according to any one of the preceding claims comprising exporting all documents in the index of documents as a combined PDF file up to a predetermined maximum number of pages.

9. The method for managing a plurality of digital documents according to claim 7 wherein the predetermined maximum value is 250 pages.

10. The method for managing a plurality of digital documents according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the page numbering of each page of each document in the plurality of documents having a corresponding entry in the index of documents is automatically sequentially incremented.

11 . The method for managing a plurality of digital documents according to claim 8 wherein the sequential increment to the page numbering is user specified, automatically generated or a combination thereof.

12. The method for managing a plurality of digital documents according to any one of the preceding claims wherein a plurality of pagination marks are independently affixed at a predetermined position on each page for each document of the plurality of documents and wherein each of pagination marks are separately and independently incremented.

13. The method for managing a plurality of digital documents according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the automatically incremented page number of successive pages of the documents in the plurality of documents are determined by the sequential order of the pages of the digital documents and the order said documents are received.

14. The method for managing a plurality of digital documents according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the file names of each document in the plurality of documents determines the entries in the index of documents.