System and method for archiving digital versions of documents and for generating quality printed documents therefrom
First Claim
1. A system for producing a high quality paper version of a page provided to an image generating portion thereof, said system comprising:
- scanning means for scanning said page to locate encoded indicia on said page;
means for decoding encoded indicia located on said page to ascertain an address at which a stored digital representation of said page can be accessed;
means for accessing said stored digital representation of said page with said address; and
means for outputting a paper version of said page from said accessed stored digital representation or by photocopying said page when no encoded indicia are located thereon.
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Abstract
An inventive page encoding, printing, retrieval and archiving system and method wherein document information designators are encoded for pages. The designator includes information regarding the location of the digital representation of the page and optionally includes page generation and reproduction information. An enhanced copier or facsimile machine scans the printed designator and retrieves the stored digital representation of the page and outputs a "subsequent original" of the page. In the alternative, when the copier cannot directly access the digital representation of the page, the enhanced copier can decode the page generation and reproduction information found in the designator and apply the information to production of a high quality photocopy. The inventive equipment is additionally adapted to create digital representations of pages, create designators for the digital representations, store the digital representations along with the designators, and output printed versions of the pages including the designators.
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1. A system for producing a high quality paper version of a page provided to an image generating portion thereof, said system comprising:
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scanning means for scanning said page to locate encoded indicia on said page; means for decoding encoded indicia located on said page to ascertain an address at which a stored digital representation of said page can be accessed; means for accessing said stored digital representation of said page with said address; and means for outputting a paper version of said page from said accessed stored digital representation or by photocopying said page when no encoded indicia are located thereon. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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11. A facsimile system for communicating at least the content data of a page, provided thereto said page optionally having encoded indicia containing an address at which a stored digital representation of said page can be accessed, said system comprising:
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scanning means for scanning said page; means for recognizing said encoded indicia on said scanned page, when present; means for decoding said encoded indicia recognized on said scanned page to ascertain said address; means for accessing said stored digital representation using said address; and means for receiving said stored digital representation. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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