Copier
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1. A copier including:
- a scanner for scanning a surface of a document, the document being printed with document content and a plurality of coded tags, each tag encoding an identity of the document and the position of that tag on the document, the scanner incorporating a sensor for sensing the coded tags;
means for transmitting the document identity and tag position of a sensed tag to a computer system networked with the copier, the computer system identifying a digital version of the document from the received document identity and determining user input on the scanned document using the received tag position, the user input requesting copy content and/or coded data from the computer system;
means for receiving the copy content and/or the coded data from the computer system; and
a printer for printing a copy of the scanned document and for incorporating in said printed copy said scanned document content and coded tags and said received copy content and/or coded data.
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Abstract
A copier includes a scanner for obtaining a digital image of a printed document and a printer for producing a copy of the scanned document. The copier is configured to identify coded data incorporated in the scanned document, the coded data indicating an identity of the scanned document. The printer reproduces the scanned document including second coded data indicative of an identity of the copy of the document. The copier has a network interface for transmitting and receiving the identity data from a server on a network where the identity data is stored.
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1. A copier including:
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a scanner for scanning a surface of a document, the document being printed with document content and a plurality of coded tags, each tag encoding an identity of the document and the position of that tag on the document, the scanner incorporating a sensor for sensing the coded tags; means for transmitting the document identity and tag position of a sensed tag to a computer system networked with the copier, the computer system identifying a digital version of the document from the received document identity and determining user input on the scanned document using the received tag position, the user input requesting copy content and/or coded data from the computer system; means for receiving the copy content and/or the coded data from the computer system; and a printer for printing a copy of the scanned document and for incorporating in said printed copy said scanned document content and coded tags and said received copy content and/or coded data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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