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Office communications system

  • US 4,614,978 A
  • Filed: 01/20/1982
  • Issued: 09/30/1986
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/20/1981
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An office communications system for the manipulation and/or transmission of image and text data via a communications network comprising in combination:

  • a word processing terminal connected to a communications network for transmitting and receiving text in the form of character data via the communications network;

    a telecopier connected to the communications network for transmitting and receiving image data via the communications network; and

    means for permitting the editing of text in the form of image data supplied by said telecopier and the transmission of said text as character data via said communications network, said means including text converter means, connected between said telecopier and said word processing terminal, for converting image data of text pages received from said telecopier to character data of the code type used by said word processing terminal and for feeding the converted data to said word processing terminal, said text converter means including a character recognition unit having a data input connected to an output of said telecopier and a data output connected to an input of said word processing terminal, and a classifier memory for storing desired classifier data connected in data exchange with said character recognition unit.

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