System for processing electronic documents using physical documents
First Claim
1. An interactive document processing system, comprising:
- a memory for recording image data of a rendered hardcopy document;
a display screen;
a processing device coupled to the display screen; and
an input device for recording signal data;
the input device communicating the signal data to the processing device;
the signal data representing at least a portion of the hardcopy document;
wherein the processing device in response to receiving the signal data from the input device includes;
identifying the image data in the signal data using the memory;
identifying annotations in the signal data by comparing the image data with the signal data;
modifying the image data recorded in the memory in accordance with the annotations;
wherein the memory records an identifier associated with the image data;
the identifier being rendered on the hardcopy document;
the identifier and image data being recorded in the memory in response to rendering a hardcopy representation of the image data; and
wherein the processing device recovers the identifier from the signal data and uses the identifier to retrieve the image data from the memory.
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Abstract
An interactive document processing system includes a display screen that is coupled to a processing device. In addition, the document processing system includes an input device for viewing all or a portion of a hardcopy document on a work surface. The input device generates signals representing the appearance of the hardcopy document from representative electronic data stored in a print memory. In one embodiment, the processing device is connected to the input device to receive the signals, determine the position of a moving indicator relative to the document, and correlate the determined position with the electronic representation of the hardcopy document. The display screen provides information related to user commands that edit and/or select portions of the electronic representation of the hardcopy document.
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15 Claims
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1. An interactive document processing system, comprising:
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a memory for recording image data of a rendered hardcopy document; a display screen; a processing device coupled to the display screen; and
an input device for recording signal data;
the input device communicating the signal data to the processing device;
the signal data representing at least a portion of the hardcopy document;wherein the processing device in response to receiving the signal data from the input device includes; identifying the image data in the signal data using the memory; identifying annotations in the signal data by comparing the image data with the signal data; modifying the image data recorded in the memory in accordance with the annotations; wherein the memory records an identifier associated with the image data;
the identifier being rendered on the hardcopy document;
the identifier and image data being recorded in the memory in response to rendering a hardcopy representation of the image data; andwherein the processing device recovers the identifier from the signal data and uses the identifier to retrieve the image data from the memory. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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