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Facsimile queuing and transmission system

  • US 5,875,038 A
  • Filed: 05/28/1996
  • Issued: 02/23/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/28/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An apparatus for electronically transmitting a multipage document having at least one page to a remote document receiving apparatus, the page having thereupon an image comprising characters and graphics, the page further having a feature corresponding to a prescribed arrangement of characters and graphics, the feature defining a value of an apparatus operating parameter, said apparatus operating parameter including a remote document receiving apparatus telephone number and a number of pages in the multipage document, said apparatus comprising:

  • optical scanner means for receiving the page and for generating scanner signals indicative of individual characters in the image upon the page;

    optical character recognition means OCR for receiving said scanner signals and for generating in dependence thereupon character signals which are indicative of the characters and graphics of the image;

    feature recognizer means including a destination recognizer means for receiving said character signals and generating therefrom telephone number signals which are indicative of a telephone number of the remote document receiving apparatus, and including a document size recognizer means for receiving said character signals and generating therefrom document size signals indicative of a number of pages in the document;

    telephone interface means for generating signals to electronically connect to the remote document receiving apparatus and to present signals indicative of the multipage document thereto in response to telephone interface control signals;

    document loading means for selectively presenting the page into said optical scanner means in response to document control signals; and

    a controller for generating said document control signals to selectively present the multipage document to said optical scanner means and for generating said telephone interface control signals to electronically connect to the remote document receiving apparatus and to present signals indicative of the multipage document to the remote document receiving apparatus in dependence on values of said signals indicative of the value of the apparatus operating parameter including the telephone number signal indicative of a telephone number of the remote document receiving apparatus, and the document size signal indicative of a number of pages in the document and, the value of the apparatus operating parameter being determined by a shape and sequence of scanned characters and graphics, whereby the value of the apparatus operating parameter is independent of the absolute position or precise coordinates of the character and graphics on a page of a document.

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