diff --git a/src/javascript/models/AppState.jsx b/src/javascript/models/AppState.jsx
index 12d58c8..165cca9 100644
--- a/src/javascript/models/AppState.jsx
+++ b/src/javascript/models/AppState.jsx
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { Enum } from 'enumify';
 
 import CalculateGlobalStats from './transformations/CalculateGlobalStats.jsx';
 import RoundCoordinates from './transformations/RoundCoordinates.jsx';
+import DetectFormats from './transformations/DetectFormats.jsx'
 import CombineSameY from './transformations/CombineSameY.jsx';
 import RemoveWhitespaces from './transformations/RemoveWhitespaces.jsx'
 import DetectFootnotes from './transformations/DetectFootnotes.jsx'
@@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ export default class AppState {
         this.transformations = [
             new CalculateGlobalStats(),
             new RoundCoordinates(),
+            new DetectFormats(),
             new CombineSameY(),
             new RemoveWhitespaces(),
             new DetectFootnotes(),
diff --git a/src/javascript/models/transformations/CalculateGlobalStats.jsx b/src/javascript/models/transformations/CalculateGlobalStats.jsx
index 3ac0d5e..2ddb72c 100644
--- a/src/javascript/models/transformations/CalculateGlobalStats.jsx
+++ b/src/javascript/models/transformations/CalculateGlobalStats.jsx
@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ export default class CalculateGlobalStats extends ToPdfViewTransformation {
                    <li>
                      { 'Most-used font: ' + parseResult.globals.mostUsedFont + ' ' }
                    </li>
+                   <li>
+                     { 'Max height: ' + parseResult.globals.maxHeight + ' ' }
+                   </li>
+                   <li>
+                     { 'Max height font: ' + parseResult.globals.maxHeightFont + ' ' }
+                   </li>
                    <hr/>
                    <li>
                      { 'Items per height: ' + JSON.stringify(parseResult.summary.heightToOccurrence) + ' ' }
@@ -31,17 +37,25 @@ export default class CalculateGlobalStats extends ToPdfViewTransformation {
     transform(parseResult:ParseResult) {
         const heightToOccurrence = {};
         const fontToOccurrence = {};
+        var maxHeight = 0;
+        var maxHeightFont;
         parseResult.content.forEach(page => {
             page.textItems.forEach(item => {
                 heightToOccurrence[item.height] = heightToOccurrence[item.height] ? heightToOccurrence[item.height] + 1 : 1;
                 fontToOccurrence[item.font] = fontToOccurrence[item.font] ? fontToOccurrence[item.font] + 1 : 1;
+                if (item.height > maxHeight) {
+                    maxHeight = item.height;
+                    maxHeightFont = item.font;
+                }
             });
         });
         const mostUsedHeight = parseInt(getMostUsedKey(heightToOccurrence));
         const mostUsedFont = getMostUsedKey(fontToOccurrence);
         parseResult.globals = {
             mostUsedHeight: mostUsedHeight,
-            mostUsedFont: mostUsedFont
+            mostUsedFont: mostUsedFont,
+            maxHeight: maxHeight,
+            maxHeightFont: maxHeightFont
         }
         parseResult.summary = {
             heightToOccurrence: heightToOccurrence,
diff --git a/src/javascript/models/transformations/DetectFormats.jsx b/src/javascript/models/transformations/DetectFormats.jsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0520fba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/javascript/models/transformations/DetectFormats.jsx
@@ -0,0 +1,178 @@
+import React from 'react';
+import ToPdfViewTransformation from './ToPdfViewTransformation.jsx';
+import TextItem from '../TextItem.jsx';
+import ParseResult from '../ParseResult.jsx';
+import { REMOVED_ANNOTATION } from '../Annotation.jsx';
+import Annotation from '../Annotation.jsx';
+
+//Detect word/sentence formats like bold, italic,...
+export default class DetectFormats extends ToPdfViewTransformation {
+
+    constructor() {
+        super("Detect Bold/Italic");
+    }
+
+    createSummaryView(parseResult:ParseResult) {
+        return <div>
+                 Detected
+                 { ' ' + parseResult.summary.foundFormats + ' ' } formats.
+               </div>;
+    }
+
+
+    transform(parseResult:ParseResult) {
+        var foundFormats = 0;
+        const {mostUsedHeight, mostUsedFont, maxHeightFont} = parseResult.globals;
+        const symbols = {
+            bold: '**',
+            emphasis: '_'
+        }
+
+        const newContent = parseResult.content.map(page => {
+            const newTextItems = [];
+
+            //bundle items on same Y
+            const groupedItems = groupByFollowingY(page.textItems);
+            var lastItem;
+            var lastFormat;
+
+            const addNextItem = (item, format) => {
+                if (lastItem) {
+                    if (lastFormat !== format) {
+                        lastItem.text = appendSymbol(lastItem.text, symbols[lastFormat]);
+                        if (lastItem.annotation) {
+                            lastItem.annotation = newAnnotation(lastFormat);
+                        } else {
+                            lastItem.annotation = newAnnotation('End ' + lastFormat);
+                        }
+                    }
+                    lastItem.height = mostUsedHeight;
+                    newTextItems.push(lastItem);
+                }
+
+                if (format) {
+                    if (lastFormat !== format) {
+                        item.text = prependSymbol(item.text, symbols[format]);
+                        item.annotation = newAnnotation('Start ' + format);
+                    }
+                    lastItem = item;
+                    lastFormat = format;
+                } else {
+                    newTextItems.push(item);
+                    lastItem = null;
+                    lastFormat = null;
+                }
+            };
+
+
+            groupedItems.forEach(itemGroup => {
+
+                //probably headline
+                const differentHeightsButSameFont = itemsHaveDifferentHeightsButSameFont(itemGroup);
+
+                itemGroup.forEach(item => {
+                    const paragraphHeighOrSlightlyBigger = item.height == mostUsedHeight || item.height == mostUsedHeight + 1;
+                    if (!differentHeightsButSameFont && paragraphHeighOrSlightlyBigger && item.font !== mostUsedFont) {
+                        // item.annotation = REMOVED_ANNOTATION;
+
+                        const format = item.font === maxHeightFont ? 'bold' : 'emphasis';
+                        addNextItem(item, format);
+
+                        //TODO test with womb compilation. _Th_, _ff_,... check font like SanSarif ?
+                        //TODO don't touch 'eingerückte' Zeichen => detect early ?
+                        //TODO (Maybe) could detect combined bold & emphasis like font=bold.font + emph.font !?
+                        foundFormats++;
+                    } else {
+                        addNextItem(item);
+                    }
+                });
+            });
+
+            return {
+                ...page,
+                textItems: newTextItems
+            };
+        });
+        return new ParseResult({
+            ...parseResult,
+            content: newContent,
+            summary: {
+                foundFormats: foundFormats
+            }
+        });
+    }
+
+    completeTransform(parseResult:ParseResult) {
+        parseResult.content.forEach(page => {
+            page.textItems = page.textItems.filter(textItem => !textItem.annotation || textItem.annotation !== REMOVED_ANNOTATION);
+            page.textItems.forEach(textItem => textItem.annotation = null)
+        });
+        return parseResult;
+    }
+
+}
+
+function newAnnotation(name) {
+    return new Annotation({
+        category: name,
+        color: 'green'
+    });
+}
+
+//groups all following text items with the same Y together
+function groupByFollowingY(textItems) {
+    const yArrays = [];
+    var itemsWithSameY = [];
+    var lastItem;
+    textItems.forEach(item => {
+        if (itemsWithSameY.length == 0 || item.y == lastItem.y) {
+            itemsWithSameY.push(item);
+        } else {
+            yArrays.push(itemsWithSameY);
+            itemsWithSameY = [item];
+        }
+        lastItem = item;
+    })
+    yArrays.push(itemsWithSameY);
+    return yArrays;
+}
+
+function itemsHaveDifferentHeightsButSameFont(itemGroup) {
+    var heights = new Set();
+    var fonts = new Set();
+    itemGroup.forEach(item => {
+        heights.add(item.height);
+        fonts.add(item.font);
+    });
+    return heights.size > 1 && fonts.size == 1;
+}
+
+//TODO move to stringFunctions
+
+function prependSymbol(text, symbol) {
+    if (text.charAt(0) == ' ') {
+        return ' ' + symbol + removeLeadingWhitespace(text);
+    }
+    return symbol + text;
+}
+
+function appendSymbol(text, symbol) {
+    if (text.charAt(text.length - 1) == ' ') {
+        return removeTrailingWhitespace(text) + symbol + ' ';
+    }
+    return text + symbol;
+}
+
+function removeLeadingWhitespace(text) {
+    while (text.charAt(0) == ' ') {
+        text = text.substring(1, text.length);
+    }
+    return text;
+}
+
+function removeTrailingWhitespace(text) {
+    while (text.charAt(text.length - 1) == ' ') {
+        text = text.substring(0, text.length - 1);
+    }
+    return text;
+}