Capturing symbolic information from documents upon printing
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method of embedding symbolic information in an electronic document, comprising:
- inserting, with a processor, fiducial marks into the electronic document, the fiducial marks comprising characters in a font with no glyphs and the fiducial marks uniquely identifying the symbolic information associated with the electronic document without altering a layout of the electronic document;
creating a symbolic hotspot file that associates the symbolic information with a target of the symbolic information;
in response to a print command, sending the electronic document with inserted fiducial marks to a printer driver, the printer driver determining coordinates for the symbolic information based on the coordinates of the fiducial marks; and
combining the determined coordinates with the symbolic hotspot file to create a merged hotspot file, the merged hotspot file identifying the determined coordinates and the target of the symbolic data.
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Abstract
An MMR system for publishing comprises a plurality of mobile devices, an MMR gateway, an MMR matching unit, and an MMR publisher. A computer includes a document authoring application, plug-in, and printer driver. The MMR matching unit receives an image query from the MMR gateway and sends it to one or more of the recognition units to identify a result including a document, the page and the location on the page. The list of results and links are sent back to the MMR gateway for presentation on the mobile device. The present invention also includes a number of novel methods including a method for capturing symbolic information from documents and for capturing printer dll functions.
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1. A computer-implemented method of embedding symbolic information in an electronic document, comprising:
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inserting, with a processor, fiducial marks into the electronic document, the fiducial marks comprising characters in a font with no glyphs and the fiducial marks uniquely identifying the symbolic information associated with the electronic document without altering a layout of the electronic document; creating a symbolic hotspot file that associates the symbolic information with a target of the symbolic information; in response to a print command, sending the electronic document with inserted fiducial marks to a printer driver, the printer driver determining coordinates for the symbolic information based on the coordinates of the fiducial marks; and combining the determined coordinates with the symbolic hotspot file to create a merged hotspot file, the merged hotspot file identifying the determined coordinates and the target of the symbolic data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions for executing by a processor, the instructions comprising:
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inserting fiducial marks into the electronic document, the fiducial marks comprising characters in a font with no glyphs and the fiducial marks uniquely identifying symbolic information associated with an electronic document without altering a layout of the electronic document; creating a symbolic hotspot file that associates the symbolic information with a target of the symbolic information; in response to a print command, sending the electronic document with inserted fiducial marks to a printer driver, the printer driver determining coordinates for the symbolic information based on the coordinates of the fiducial marks; and combining the determined coordinates with the symbolic hotspot file to create a merged hotspot file, the merged hotspot file identifying the determined coordinates and the target of the symbolic data. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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