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Given the deficiencies in present image communica tion processors, the present invention employs an elec tronic tablet and an all-points-addressable display to create handwritten images of documents which may be easily edited and then stored within an information processing system. The data may be subsequently trans mitted to one or more recipients equipped with suitable all-points addressable displays. By utilizing editing and automatic formatting techniques, the representation of the image data in the system and in the output device is altered and presented in a more legible manner consis tent with conventional text presentation. Examples of editing carried out by the present invention are deletion and insertion operations on data components. Examples of formatting are paragraph indentation, word separa tion, and baseline drift correction.