14. The system of claim 12 , wherein the number of occurrences of the term in the first text object and in the second text objects are divided by the total number of their respective text objects.
12. A computer system for displaying prominent elements in a text object, comprising: a user interface configured to provide a display area for displaying a text element extracted from a first text object; and a computer processor configured to receive the element and to enable the display of the element in the display area in the user interface, wherein the element is obtained based on a method comprising the steps of: (a) tokenizing the first text object into one or more tokens as instances of one or more terms, each term comprising one or more words or phrases, wherein the first text object includes a single document or a collection of documents containing text, or a document segment marked by a boundary or by a section heading, or a page of a multi-page document; (b) for the one or more terms in the first text object, incrementing a first value for the term based on the number of occurrences of the term in the first text object; (c) obtaining a second value based on the corresponding number of occurrences of the same term in a plurality of second text objects, wherein at least one of the plurality of second text objects is different from the first text object, or is randomly selected, wherein the second text objects can be referred to as external text objects; (d) for one or more terms in the first text object, producing a score value based on a measurement of the difference between the first value and the second value, wherein the first value is greater than the second value, wherein the score value is an importance score of the term representing an information focus in the text object; (e) selecting one or more terms in the first text object based at least on the respective score value; and (f) extracting, from the first text object, the selected terms or a sentence or paragraph containing the one or more selected terms for storage or display.