Palm office assistants
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1. A palm office assistant comprising:
- a portable computing device;
a scanner integrated with the portable computing device, the scanner exposing to a scanning object and generating an image thereof when the portable computing device and the scanning object have a relative motion; and
wherein the portable computing device includes an optical recognition engine that receives the image and produces texts therefrom.
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Abstract
An apparatus capable of scanning in documents is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a linear scanner is integrated with a portable computing device and exposed to a scanning document. An image is generated when there is a relative motion between the linear scanner and the scanning document. Texts in the image are reproduced by an OCR engine in the apparatus and can be displayed on a display screen of the portable computing device. The reproduced texts can be then filled in appropriate fields on records maintained in the device or transported to another device.
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15 Claims
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1. A palm office assistant comprising:
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a portable computing device;
a scanner integrated with the portable computing device, the scanner exposing to a scanning object and generating an image thereof when the portable computing device and the scanning object have a relative motion; and
wherein the portable computing device includes an optical recognition engine that receives the image and produces texts therefrom. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A palm office assistant comprising:
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a portable computing device including a display screen and an interface;
a pen-style scanner communicating with the portable computing device through the interface, the pen-style scanner scanning in an image of texts on a document and reproducing the texts through a build-in OCR engine; and
wherein the texts are displayed on the display screen of the portable computing device.
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9. A palm office assistant comprising:
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a portable computing device including a display screen;
a linear scanner integrated with portable computing device and exposing to a scanning document, the linear scanner including a contact image sensor and generating an image when the linear scanner moves across an area of the scanning document, the area including texts, wherein the image is processed in the portable computing device executing an OCR engine to reproduce the texts; and
wherein the texts can be displayed on the display screen when requested. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 14, 15)
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- 12. The palm office assistant of claim 11, wherein the portable computing device is able to transport the one or more records to another device via a communication link.
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