Abstract: A system and a method for publishing a newspaper page or other data through a Web page, such that the information can be made available more easily through a network such as the Internet. The data is automatically converted to the Web page format by first rendering the newspaper page into a digital format; converting the digital format to a basic internal publishing format; and then publishing the data in any one of a number of different possible publishing formats, including but not limited, a mark-up language document such as a Web page for example. The present invention supports such advanced features as arrangement of the content of the newspaper according to relationships within the information of the content and/or according to the preference(s) of the user by analyzing the newspaper page as a plurality of objects. Each newspaper object may optionally be a title, an article, a picture and/or other graphic advertisement, and so forth.

Abstract: A management system for managing information, in which information is first captured from an original source having an original format, and then converted into an information component. The information component is a software object which includes a pointer to the original information, a method for manipulating the original information and a property of the original information. The information component can be stored in, and retrieved from, a database. Upon being retrieved from a database, the original information can be extracted from the information component and displayed in a substantially similar format as the original information.

Abstract: A method for storing, processing, and retrieving images in/from a graphic database. The graphic database is a digital database which is created by converting an original image into a digital format and arranging and organizing the digital format so as to identify elements of the converted image. The graphic database is so arranged and organized as to enable the identifiable elements of the converted image to be searched and displayed with the look and format of the original image.