NETGEAR, Inc.
Document Production by Conversion from Wireframe to Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)

Abstract:

The present invention improves document production by automating a conversion of wireframe files highly useable for engineering and design to a Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) file highly useable for producing documents. The DITA file can be generated by extracting text from a wireframe file, which can typically be formatted as a Portable Document Format (PDF) document, to a text file, identifying instances of one or more keywords in the text file and associating such instances with steps for a DITA task. Multiple wireframe files can be converted to provide multiple DITA tasks in a single DITA file. In one aspect, steps can be identified in a text file by iteratively analyzing the file for keywords in one or more loops and tagging instances of the keywords with related chunks of text.