Document enhancement system and method
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1. A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a first server and from a capture device, an image from a rendered document captured by the capture device;
identifying, by operation of the first server and from a corpus of documents, a first document that corresponds to the image, wherein identifying the first document comprises accessing a document index of the corpus of documents that is indexed based on document contents, and determining that the first document contains one or more textual elements of the image;
providing, by the first server and to the capture device, a document identifier for the first document;
receiving, by a second server and from the capture device, a request for an enhancement package for the first document, wherein the request includes the document identifier for the first document, wherein the enhancement package includes multiple enhancements associated with multiple portions of the first document, wherein each enhancement of the multiple enhancements corresponds to a respective portion of the multiple portions of the first document and comprises media configured for presentation by a presentation device in response to capturing the respective portion of the rendered document by the capture device and locating within the enhancement package the enhancement corresponding to the respective portion; and
in response to the request, selecting the enhancement package for the first document by the second server based at least in part on the document identifier, and providing the one or more enhancements by the second server to the capture device.
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Abstract
A system, apparatus and method for enhancing documents, including using a graphical capture device, are described herein.
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1. A method, comprising:
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receiving, by a first server and from a capture device, an image from a rendered document captured by the capture device; identifying, by operation of the first server and from a corpus of documents, a first document that corresponds to the image, wherein identifying the first document comprises accessing a document index of the corpus of documents that is indexed based on document contents, and determining that the first document contains one or more textual elements of the image; providing, by the first server and to the capture device, a document identifier for the first document; receiving, by a second server and from the capture device, a request for an enhancement package for the first document, wherein the request includes the document identifier for the first document, wherein the enhancement package includes multiple enhancements associated with multiple portions of the first document, wherein each enhancement of the multiple enhancements corresponds to a respective portion of the multiple portions of the first document and comprises media configured for presentation by a presentation device in response to capturing the respective portion of the rendered document by the capture device and locating within the enhancement package the enhancement corresponding to the respective portion; and in response to the request, selecting the enhancement package for the first document by the second server based at least in part on the document identifier, and providing the one or more enhancements by the second server to the capture device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A system comprising one or more computers, the one or more computers comprising:
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a first server configured to perform first operations comprising; receiving from a capture device an image from a rendered document captured by the capture device, identifying, from a corpus of documents, a first document that corresponds to the image, wherein identifying the first document comprises accessing a document index of the corpus of documents that is indexed based on document contents, and determining that the first document contains one or more textual elements of the image, and providing a document identifier for the first document to the capture device; and a second server configured to perform second operations comprising; receiving, from the capture device, a request for an enhancement package for the first document, wherein the request includes the document identifier for the first document, wherein the enhancement package includes multiple enhancements associated with multiple portions of the first document, wherein each enhancement of the multiple enhancements corresponds to a respective portion of the multiple portions of the first document and comprises media configured for presentation by a presentation device in response to capturing the respective portion of the rendered document by the capture device and locating within the enhancement package the enhancement corresponding to the respective portion, and in response to the request, selecting the enhancement package for the first document based at least in part on the document identifier, and providing the one or more enhancements to the capture device. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
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