a streamed manner for more rapid transmission and display of each part of the document as that part is converted the present invention is preferred for operation in environments with limited bandwidth and or display capacity such as for wireless handheld devices for example as previously described such devices cannot easily receive large amounts of data and also typically have relatively small display screens thus the present invention enables the user to quickly receive and display each part of the document after being converted rather than waiting for the entire document to be converted and then transmitted before any part is displayed as described in greater detail below the present invention is particularly useful for the conversion of documents which are based in discrete blocks with a particular relationship between the blocks termed u201c modules u201d herein for a u201c modular document u201d documents which are already in a streamed format such as streaming audio or video data for example may also be converted according to the present invention but the particular advantage of the present invention is the ability to handle documents which are not in such a streamed format documents which are in a block format are more difficult to convert in a streamed manner.