1. A method for emphasizing freeform annotations, comprising: inputting received document data; inputting at least one freeform annotation in the received document data; determining from the at least one freeform annotation a reader annotation style; determining an importance of at least one of the at least one freeform annotation based on the determined reader annotation style; and outputting a reduced representation of at least a portion of the received document data and outputting a representation of at least one freeform annotation, the outputting of the representation of the at least one freeform annotation being based on the determined importance of that at least one freeform annotation.