System and method for digitizing documents and encoding information relating to same for display by handheld computing devices
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1. A system comprising:
- a scanner for scanning one or more original mail documents;
a processing system comprising one or more computer-readable media, wherein the computer-readable media contain instructions that, when executed by the processing system, cause the processing system to perform operations comprising;
creating one or more digitized documents based on the one or more original mail documents;
extracting textual information from the one or more digitized documents, wherein;
the textual information comprises intended recipient information of the one or more original mail documents; and
the intended recipient information is not an electronic mail address;
identifying and tagging the intended recipient information in the textual information based on a location of the intended recipient information within the one or more digitized documents;
identifying and tagging a region of interest in the textual information, wherein the region of interest is associated with a location within the one or more digitized documents;
creating an image file, wherein the image file comprises a graphical representation of the one or more digitized documents and the textual information;
encoding the region of interest and the location associated with the region of interest in the image file, such that when a user selects the location on a user device an enlarged version of the region of interest is displayed on the user device;
searching an electronically stored address record for an electronic mail address using the intended recipient information of the one or more original mail documents;
retrieving, from the electronically stored address record, the electronic mail address; and
sending an electronic mail message to the electronic mail address, wherein the electronic mail message comprises one or more of the image file and a reference to the image file.
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Abstract
A system and method are provided for processing scanned documents by digitizing the scanned documents, converting the digitized documents to a JPEG2000 file, encoding content information corresponding to the digitized documents using spatial capabilities of JPEG2000'"'"'s Region of Interest feature, and creating an image file having the digitized documents and the region of interest information for forwarding to a computing device, such as a handheld computing device, for display. The system and method are especially useful in Digital Mail applications which entail digitizing and delivering mail documents to recipients.
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1. A system comprising:
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a scanner for scanning one or more original mail documents; a processing system comprising one or more computer-readable media, wherein the computer-readable media contain instructions that, when executed by the processing system, cause the processing system to perform operations comprising; creating one or more digitized documents based on the one or more original mail documents; extracting textual information from the one or more digitized documents, wherein; the textual information comprises intended recipient information of the one or more original mail documents; and the intended recipient information is not an electronic mail address; identifying and tagging the intended recipient information in the textual information based on a location of the intended recipient information within the one or more digitized documents; identifying and tagging a region of interest in the textual information, wherein the region of interest is associated with a location within the one or more digitized documents; creating an image file, wherein the image file comprises a graphical representation of the one or more digitized documents and the textual information; encoding the region of interest and the location associated with the region of interest in the image file, such that when a user selects the location on a user device an enlarged version of the region of interest is displayed on the user device; searching an electronically stored address record for an electronic mail address using the intended recipient information of the one or more original mail documents; retrieving, from the electronically stored address record, the electronic mail address; and sending an electronic mail message to the electronic mail address, wherein the electronic mail message comprises one or more of the image file and a reference to the image file. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 16, 17, 23, 24)
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7. A method for processing digitized documents comprising:
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creating one or more digitized documents based on one or more original mail documents; extracting textual information from the one or more digitized documents, wherein; the textual information comprises intended recipient information of the one or more original mail documents; and the intended recipient information is not an electronic mail address; identifying and tagging the intended recipient information in the textual information based on a location of the intended recipient information within the one or more digitized documents; identifying and tagging a region of interest in the textual information, wherein the region of interest is associated with a location within the one or more digitized documents; creating, using a processor, an image file, wherein the image file comprises a graphical representation of the one or more digitized documents and the textual information; encoding the region of interest and the location associated with the region of interest in the image file, such that when a user selects the location on a user device an enlarged version of the region of interest is displayed on the user device; searching an electronically stored address record for an electronic mail address using the intended recipient information of the one or more original mail documents; retrieving, from the electronically stored address record, the electronic mail address; and sending an electronic mail message to the electronic mail address, wherein the electronic mail message comprises one or more of the image file and a reference to the image file. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 18, 19, 25)
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12. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing programmable instructions configured for execution by a processor for performing the method of:
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creating one or more digitized documents based on one or more original mail documents; extracting textual information from the one or more digitized documents, wherein; the textual information comprises intended recipient information of the one or more original mail documents; and the intended recipient information is not an electronic mail address; identifying and tagging the intended recipient information in the textual information based on a location of the intended recipient information within the one or more digitized documents; identifying and tagging a region of interest in the textual information, wherein the region of interest is associated with a location within the one or more digitized documents; creating an image file, wherein the image file comprises a graphical representation of the one or more digitized documents and the textual information; encoding the region of interest and the location associated with the region of interest in the image file, such that when a user selects the location on a user device an enlarged version of the region of interest is displayed on the user device; searching an electronically stored address record for an electronic mail address using the intended recipient information of the one or more original mail documents; retrieving, from the electronically stored address record, the electronic mail address; and sending an electronic mail message to the electronic mail address, wherein the electronic mail message comprises one or more of the image file and a reference to the image file. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 26)
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