Reprographic text reduction device - has selected elements of text scanned, arranged in matrix, read out and reproduced as new text

摘要

The text of any documents, e.g. books, newspapers, typewritten pages, is reprographically converter into a new text in accordance with any kind, volume and sequence of selected text parts. The new text contains a shortened text, or parts of the text of the original document (2), and/or other different contents. Narrow surface elements (10) whose height is adjustable to the respective line, and whose width is adjustable down to a single character, are selected from any parts of the document and placed behind each other as often as required, beginning from any point. They are scanned, converted into a matrix and then read out in the order of their scanning, forming a new text reprographically reproduced on paper or made visible in any way.