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A printer that automatically reformats pages to reduce clutter could save on ink and make printouts easier to read. But would you accept a few additional ads on your document in return? Researchers at HP's labs think so. "By some statistics, almost half of the printouts on HP's printers come from the Web, but the experience is really terrible compared to office or PDF documents," says Parag Joshi, a member of HP's Multimedia Interaction and Understanding Lab in Palo Alto, California. Joshi and his colleague Sam Liu led the development of software that extracts the pertinent text and images from an online article and discards the rest of the page, making for a much cleaner printout. The system removes clutter such as navigation elements or online ads, so less ink and paper are needed.At the same time, the system can insert advertisements chosen to match the content. [Read the full article] |








