DETERMINING ACTIONS INVOLVING CAPTURED INFORMATION AND ELECTRONIC CONTENT ASSOCIATED WITH RENDERED DOCUMENTS
First Claim
1. A method in a computing system, comprising:
- receiving text captured from a human-perceptible textual portion of a printed document using a handheld information capture device; and
in response to receiving the captured text, determining a plurality of actions that would be appropriate to perform in response to the capture of the captured text based on an analysis of the captured text.
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Abstract
Information is captured from a rendered document with a handheld document data capture device. Electronic information associated with the rendered document is applied to determine the system'"'"'s actions and/or behaviors in response to the data capture. In some embodiments, the electronic information is markup data or an action map associated with the rendered document. In some embodiments, an electronic counterpart corresponding to the rendered document is located, and information associated with the electronic counterpart is applied to determine actions and/or behaviors available to a user of the handheld document data capture device.
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26 Claims
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1. A method in a computing system, comprising:
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receiving text captured from a human-perceptible textual portion of a printed document using a handheld information capture device; and in response to receiving the captured text, determining a plurality of actions that would be appropriate to perform in response to the capture of the captured text based on an analysis of the captured text. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A method in a computing system for providing a choice of actions for selection by a user, comprising:
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receiving text captured from a human-perceptible textual portion of a printed document using a handheld information capture device; applying markup data associated with the received text in order to determine a plurality of actions to be performed; and providing a menu of choices to the user that includes at least a portion of the determined plurality of actions. - View Dependent Claims (24)
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25. A system that performs an action in response to a capture of data from a printed document, comprising:
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a hand-held device, the hand-held device comprising a data capture component that stores human-perceptible textual data captured from the printed document and a context component that determines context information that is current at the time of the data capture; and an action component that receives the captured textual data and the determined context information and performs an action based on the received captured data and the received context information.
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26. One or more computer memories collectively containing an action map data structure comprising a plurality of entries, each entry comprising both (a) information identifying a portion of the text contained by each of one or more documents, and (b) markup data identifying one or more actions that are candidates to be performed in response to a user using a text capture device to capture human-perceptible text from a printed document among the identified portions of text.
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