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Electronic document processing method and device

  • US 8,854,675 B1
  • Filed: 03/28/2013
  • Issued: 10/07/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2013
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method comprising:

  • receiving, by an electronic documents processor of a computerized device, multiple image pages produced by scanning a batch of media sheets,said batch comprising a plurality of sub-batches,said sub-batches comprising;

    groups of physical documents comprising document sheets, wherein at least some of said groups comprise multiple physical documents and each of said multiple physical documents in a given group have a same page count; and

    separator sheets on top of said groups, said separator sheets having markings indicating page counts associated with said groups, andsaid multiple image pages comprising document sheet image pages corresponding to said document sheets and separator sheet image pages corresponding to said separator sheets; and

    forming, by said electronic documents processor, multiple electronic documents corresponding to all physical documents in said batch, said forming being performed by analyzing each of said multiple image pages in sequence to identify page type and, during said analyzing, performing the following;

    when a separator sheet image page is identified, reading a specific page count from a marking on said separator sheet image page;

    creating an electronic document having said specific page count from each sequential set of document sheet image pages following said separator sheet image page and having said specific page count, said creating being performed until a subsequent separator sheet image page is identified; and

    repeating said reading and said creating for all separator sheet image pages identified.

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