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Search engines and systems with handheld document data capture devices

  • US 8,019,648 B2
  • Filed: 04/01/2005
  • Issued: 09/13/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method performed by a mobile device of retrieving a result of searching for content, comprising:

  • optically capturing human-readable information from a textual portion of a rendered document using the mobile device;

    identifying the rendered document based on the captured human-readable information;

    generating a text string from the captured human-readable information;

    transmitting the generated text string, information identifying the rendered document, and information identifying the mobile device to a search engine at a server remote from the mobile device;

    receiving, at the mobile device and from the search engine at the remote server, information associated with results of a search for content using the generated text string; and

    presenting, via a display of the mobile device, at least a portion of the received information.

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