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Copier

  • US 7,557,944 B2
  • Filed: 03/19/2004
  • Issued: 07/07/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/25/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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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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