An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display including at least one display panel, a memory, and a processor operatively connected to the display module and the memory. The memory stores instructions causing the processor to generate content including one or more pages and at least one object being displayed on the one or more pages based on a user input, display an editing area for editing the content by using the display module, and simultaneously apply the at least one object being generated or changed based on the user input to at least one partial area of a first page and at least one partial area of a second page corresponding to the editing area in case that the at least partial areas of the first page and the second page among the one or more pages are simultaneously displayed in the editing area.

According to certain embodiments, an electronic device may include a display, a memory, and a processor operatively connected to the display and the memory. The processor may be configured to, while receiving user's touch input in a handwriting area of the display, the user's touch input comprising successive input stokes: output the successive input strokes in the handwriting area on the display; determine a first stroke group including some of the successive input strokes, to determine a first character corresponding to the first stroke group, to output the first stroke group in an output area adjacent to the handwriting area on the display, to determine a second stroke group including at least another input stroke received after the some of the successive input strokes, to determine a second character corresponding to the second stroke group, and to output the second stroke group in the output area, move the first stroke group to on one side of the second stroke group on the display.

Method, computer readable medium, and apparatus of recognizing character zone in a digital document. In an embodiment, the method includes classifying a segment of the digital document as including text, calculating at least one parameter value associated with the classified segment of the digital document, determining, based on the calculated at least one parameter value, a zonal parameter value, classifying the segment of the digital document as a handwritten text zone or as a printed text zone based on the determined zonal parameter value and a threshold value, the threshold value being based on a selection of an intersection of a handwritten text distribution profile and a printed text distribution profile, each of the handwritten text distribution profile and the printed text distribution profile being associated with a zonal parameter corresponding to the determined zonal parameter value, and generating, based on the classifying, a modified version of the digital document.

As an example, a server may receive, from a computing device, a submission created by an author. The submission includes book data associated with a book and author data associated with the author. The author data includes incarceration data indicating whether the author was incarcerated. The server may determine, based on the author data and the book data, that the submission is publishable. The server may create, based on the book data, a printable book, an e-book, and an audio book and make one or more of the printable book, the e-book, and the audio book available for acquisition.

An ink file output method is provided, which includes: generating M (M is an integer of 1 or more) pieces of stroke data SD on the basis of event data generated as M input devices move, respectively; generating N (N is an integer of 1 or more and M or less) kinds of logical names LN (metadata) identifying the M number of input devices; generating a metadata block associating the M pieces of stroke data SD with the N kinds of logical names LN; and writing the M pieces of stroke data SD and the metadata block to an ink file.

A display apparatus includes circuitry that receives a plurality of stroke data input to a touch panel by an input device and displays the plurality of stroke data. The plurality of stroke data includes first stroke data and second stroke data input after the first stroke data. The circuitry sets a determination area differently depending on whether an elapsed time from separation of the input device from the touch panel after input of the first stroke data exceeds a threshold. The determination area is for determining whether to include the second stroke data in a recognition group including the first stroke data. The circuitry performs character recognition on the recognition group and displays, on a screen, a result of the character recognition.

A system, method and computer program product for use in managing collaboration on documents having digital ink on a network of computing devices is disclosed. Each computing device has a processor and at least one system application for processing handwriting input under control of the processor. The system application displays, on a display associated with one of the computing devices, a document having digital ink based on a journal of the document, defines the journal to have journal entries associated with at least handwriting input to the document represented by the digital ink, and communicates the journal entries of the journal with one or more of the other networked computing devices displaying the document. The handwriting input associated with the journal entries is handwriting input to the document via the input interface of any of the computing devices displaying the document based on the communicated journal entries.

A system, method and computer program product for use in managing collaboration on documents having digital ink on a network of computing devices is disclosed. Each computing device has a processor and at least one system application for processing handwriting input under control of the processor. The system application displays, on a display associated with one of the computing devices, a document having digital ink based on a journal of the document, defines the journal to have journal entries associated with at least handwriting input to the document represented by the digital ink, and communicates the journal entries of the journal with one or more of the other networked computing devices displaying the document. The handwriting input associated with the journal entries is handwriting input to the document via the input interface of any of the computing devices displaying the document based on the communicated journal entries.

One variation of a method includes: accessing a handwriting sample comprising a set of user glyphs handwritten by a user; for each character in a set of characters, identifying a subset of user glyphs corresponding to the character in the handwriting sample, characterizing variability of a set of spatial features across the subset of user glyphs, and storing variability of the set of spatial features across the subset of user glyphs in a character container corresponding to the character; and compiling the set of character containers into a handwriting model for the user. The method further includes: accessing a text string comprising a combination of characters in the set of characters; for each instance of each character in the text string, inserting a set of variability parameters into the handwriting model to generate a synthetic glyph representing the character; and assembling the set of synthetic glyphs into a print file.

A method for generating an electronic signature for an electronic document is implemented by an electronic device that is in communication with a stylus pen and a handwriting input device that includes a writing area. The method includes: initiating a signature input procedure associated with the electronic document; obtaining a signature pattern and an experienced pressure dataset recorded by the handwriting input device during the signature input procedure, and obtaining a fingerprint dataset and an applied pressure dataset recorded by the stylus pen during the signature input procedure; determining whether the experienced pressure dataset corresponds with the applied pressure dataset; and in the case where the experienced pressure dataset corresponds with the applied pressure dataset, generating a signed electronic document by presenting the signature pattern on a part of the electronic document and embedding the fingerprint dataset in the signature pattern.