FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a method of presenting a digitally replicated version of print newspapers and publications over the web page, thereby giving a global presence to the newspaper / publications and its advertisers. The invention in particular relates to an apparatus and method for on-lnie publication of e-paper, in particular e-Newspaper.
The newspaper and publiblication industry has the challenge of reaching Global audience in a timely and cost effective manner. Althogh most of the newspapers are available online, the contents and layout are not exactly the same as in the print version. The ads go missing, photographs are not in place, contents are in a free-flow text and page navigation is not very user-firiendly. Newspaper subscribers, accustomed to the original look and feel of their favorite newspapers fail to fmd the authenticity and originality in news portels. Due to this factor, subscribers are not willing to pay for accessing the static news contents online.
Newspapers are looking for new revenue streams for sustainability and growth. Its main revenue source from advertisements is getting reduced to a considerable extent, as there is no way newspapers can present the advertisements in a more attractive way in its print version. There is hence a need to give a more dynamic look to the advertisements, which can be achieved by giving an on line presence to the advertisements.

Advertisements appearing in the print version are mostly location specific and may not be of interest to a subscriber accessing the online version of the newspaper from other part of the world. Hence, there is a need of a dynamic geographical location based display of advertisement.
In this fast pace of life, people hardly get time to read news contents of their choice. There are also several occasions when people look for an article released in the recent past and end up searching for the physical newspaper. There is hence a need to instantly access news (search mechanism), look for a specific article of earlier edition (archives) and / or read news in a more customized way.
The world wide web, or the web is a storehouse of information, the contents of which are expanding exponentially. The number of persons using the web is also increasing by leaps and bounds. A substantial portion of the infbrmatkm in the web is news, traditionally delivered primarily through prmted newspapers. Typical information means including other sources of news today is the web page'. Almost all leading print newspapers have their web pages in the web, where usually only a part of the news and information is available compared to the printed publication.
Therefore, though newspapers have their web presence, the contents and the lay-out is not the same as in the physical version. People living far away from their native place miss out reading their favorite newspaper in its typical form. Advertisements in the physical news paper of one location do not have any relevance if they are accessed on-line by users of other geographical location. Hence there is a need of a solution to provide an online presence of the physical newspaper-preferably a data base oriented application to store and instantly retrieve news pages.

An object of the present invention is to provide a method which facilitates to offer exact digital replica of the print version of the day's newspaper as an e-Newspaper to the world wide online subscriber leading to low-cost global distribution of newspaper and other print publications.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a method which automatically converts the available newspaper data to a format suitable for direct publication as a web page in an elaborate and attractive lay-out format. A further object of the invention is to provide a method which facilitates publishing e-Newspaper allowing the subscribers to view the pages in a customized way by increasing / decreasing the size of the text, directly visiting the article section continued in the inside pages thereby enabling the digitally replicated e-Newspaper to extend its reach both geographically and demographically.
A still further object of the invention is to provide a method which enables the publishers to display user-location specific advertisement (Dynamic Geo ads) through e-Newspaper thereby generating additional revenue for newspaper. An yet another object of the invention is to provide a method which enables display of SPLASH ADS via e-newspaper to the users in an animated user-friendly manner including search for content facilitates via content indexing and tagging features of the invention.
Still another object of the invention is to provide a method which enables categorization of article content of newspaper as text and / or image based, depending upon the fonts embedded in the source document, each object being converted into an image format and not necessarily into a text format. Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a method in which construction of the published data makes use of the effective utility criteria for the web page to the maximum extent by facilitating users the contents t>ased on various attributes in a customized manner, with links of contents fi-om one page to another, instead of the uniformed structure of the physical printed newspaper,

thereby allowing options to the users for choosing specific article of their interest to be viewed.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION;
Accordingly there is provided a method for on-line publication of e-paper in particular e-Newspaper which comprises the steps of converting pre-press pages such as Quark express, page makers and or likes to high resolution PDFs with fonts and images embedded in it, enhancing the converted PDFs via third party components like Acrobat professional to make them compatible to e-Newspaper processing application, zoning every section of the page for segmented display of plurality of objects inckiding but not limited to artkie, photograph , advertisement, and displaying an image of the processed page as web page. The present invention is devebped on Microsoft platform. It works on ns 5.0 above and requires MS SQL server 2000 (SP3) as the backend data base.
The invention is a web-based applicatton (set of COM-f DLL and HTML, ASP, JS pages). For easy deployment and scalability all the applkatkin togic and presentation layer is embedded into COM-f. Applkatk)n can be installed by making use of the installer or by:-
• Creating database for the publkraticm.
• Simply creating the nS host => copying HTML/ASP/JS & Images => registration COM+ (or as DLL) -> application configuration (one time resource file generation with DB settings and presentation parameters.)
The inventton will now be described in details with the help of the accompanying drawing.

BRIEF DESCRIPTIOli OF THE DRAWING
Figure 1 shows the flow-diagram of the method in accordance with the invention.
The description of the method given hereunder relates to a non-limiting embodiment of the invention. There can be many other related implications and embodiments. In this description the term "newspaper' refers to the printed version of the newspaper and 'e-newspaper' or 'e-paper' will mean the virtual newspaper available in tiie web page.
The subject invention enables exact digital replica of the newspaper to be available in the e-paper.
1.1 PDF Convcreiwi from prc-pr«w pages: The first step of the process involves conversion to high-resolution PDF files from the prepress pa^s processed out of editorial software such as Quark express, Page maker etc.
1.2 Import PDFi for proccw; PDFs converted from prepress pages are made compatible to the process application. PDfs are enhwiced through tools like Acrobat professional and then imported to the e-paper processing application.
1.3 Page zoning and Indexing: Every sectkin of the page is zoned for segmented display of objects. Some examples of such objects include, but are not limited to, an article, a photograph, advertisement etc. Likewise, each article could be further indexed (categorized) into attributes like title, location, date, author etc.
1.4 Quality Assurance: This process of the invention facilitates verificatkin of the zoned objects and the associated indexing. This step facilitates modification / edition of activities mentioned in point no. 1.3.

1.5 €K:R: The OCR (optical character recognition) is processed automatically so as to convert the image based fonts into text based for search feasibility.
1.6 Interact: The processed page are uploaded to the web server through internet.
1.7 Datebasc & Server; This step depicts that processed pages are available on the web-server.
1.8 Hnal I Display Product: The pages of print newspaper Is
to be viewed by users through a web-browser. This is the e-psq>er.
UNIQUE FEATURES OF THE INVENTION
1.8.1. Interactive Digitei Rcpiica of Puliiications: The software application of the method in accordance with the invention facilitates conversion of a print publication into an interactive digital medium. Besides enabling people to read the entire publication online, in its actual layout, the invention facilitates people to experience the effectiveness of web-application by way of viewing animated ads, communicating with advertisers instantly, participating in research & polls etc.
1.8.2. Enliancing scope off advertiacnient: The invention facilitates integration of multimedia files (video files, audio files, jingles etc.) to the advertisements, so that people can actually watch and understood the features of the products more clearly.
1.8.3. Dynamic Geo-Ads: This invention will also enable publication houses to publish 'user-location' specific advertisements (DYNAMIC GEO ADS) and generate additional revenue. People wouki be able to view geographical location specific advertisements. Newspapers can now book advertisements fi'om any part of the world and can display them
on its digitally replicated print version; i.e. tiie e-paper.
1.8.4. News clipping: The invention allows News & events published on the
publication to be displayed in the form of video / audio clipping.

1.8.5. URL/Email hotipoto: Ail the URLs and email ids available on the publication will be hot-linked and the application allows users to directly send emails / visit websites of advertisers through the e-paper.
1.8.6. Online Opinion Polls: The invention facilitates integration of online opinion polls to be conducted by the epaper. Such polls will enable the publication to get valuable feedback of people about theproducts advertised, articles published etc.
1.8.7. Read-Out Newi: Integration of this feature facilitates people to listen to the news. This integration will help largely those people, who do not have a good vision to read news on the e-paper.
1.8.8. Breaking News: Current news can be instantly updated on the application, to enable users to read live news.
1.8.9. Zooming: A viewer can zoom-in or zoom-out array selected portion including and photogr^hs or advertisements to suit his liking.

We Claim
1. A method to make exact digital replica of print matter comprising conversion of prepress pages to high resolution PDFs (Portable Documentation Formats) files, enhancing, zoning and indexing of said PDFs, converting image fonts to text based by means of Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and making the final display product available globally through the internet, characterized in that the user has a plurality of interactive access and control over the final display product.
2. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the said PDFs are enhanced through tools commonly available.
3. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein users in any part of the globe can view advertisements that are user-location specific in their e-paper.
4. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein users can directly access advertisers of the e-paper,
5. A method to make exact digital replica of print matter substantially as herein described and illustrated.