the term alltext will be used when referring to the document text display area or anything related to it hereafter a carrot will be referred to as a picturebox when describing the functionality of a carrot it will be in terms of the horizontal carrot 410 however the functionality disclosed serves as the functionality used for implementing both carrots although the orientation vertical or horizontal of each carrot is different and thus certain properties and values may be different in actual practice as anyone skilled in the art will recognize the method for choosing a document to be loaded into the preferred embodiment is arbitrary the host provides a list of documents 411 from which the user can select when a document is selected 412 such as by clicking or double clicking i e generating an appropriate event in association with the document with the gui pointing device the preferred embodiment loads it the general process for displaying the summary document information is outlined in the flowchart in fig5 step 501 loads the text portion of the document specified by the host into memory the process of extracting the text from the tiff file is a straightforward one and recognizable by one skilled in the art however it is important to note that the image file header 101 must be skipped i e is not intended to be displayed as text the easiest way to do this is to move the file pointer to byte position 11 in the file because the.