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System for automatically filling an original form

  • US 6,026,187 A
  • Filed: 08/21/1997
  • Issued: 02/15/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/25/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of print-filling in an original hardcopy form having preprinted areas and blank fill-in areas requiring fill-in information, the method comprising the steps of:

  • scanning the original hardcopy form to create a first electronic document including preprinted areas and blank fill-in areas;

    (b) storing the first electronic document;

    (c) creating a second electronic document that is blank, having nothing preprinted on it, and has a size and bitmap coordinate system identical to those of said first electronic document;

    (d) displaying the first electronic document and the second electronic document simultaneously on a display apparatus, with the second electronic document overlaying the first electronic document;

    (e) inputting required fill-in information into areas on the second electronic document overlaying the blank fill-in areas of the first electronic document; and

    (f) automatically and selectively printing the second electronic document containing only the required fill-in information as printing thereon onto the original hardcopy form, thereby providing an automatically filled-in original form.

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