Triggering actions in response to optically or acoustically capturing keywords from a rendered document
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1. A method comprising:
- accessing a data structure stored on a computer memory device, the data structure storing data representing a plurality of keyword-condition pairs and, for each keyword-condition pair, an associated action;
receiving a sequence of characters captured by a capture device;
determining that the received sequence of characters includes a keyword that matches a first keyword of a first keyword-condition pair in the data structure, the first keyword-condition pair comprising the first keyword and a first condition, and determining that the first condition is satisfied; and
performing a first action associated with the first keyword-condition pair in the data structure.
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Abstract
A system for processing text captured from rendered documents is described. The system receives a sequence of one or more words optically or acoustically captured from a rendered document by a user. The system identifies among words of the sequence a word with which an action has been associated. The system then performs the associated action with respect to the user.
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1. A method comprising:
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accessing a data structure stored on a computer memory device, the data structure storing data representing a plurality of keyword-condition pairs and, for each keyword-condition pair, an associated action; receiving a sequence of characters captured by a capture device; determining that the received sequence of characters includes a keyword that matches a first keyword of a first keyword-condition pair in the data structure, the first keyword-condition pair comprising the first keyword and a first condition, and determining that the first condition is satisfied; and performing a first action associated with the first keyword-condition pair in the data structure. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A server device comprising:
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a processor; a computer memory device storing a data structure, the data structure storing data representing a plurality of keyword-condition pairs and, for each keyword-condition pair, an associated action; and a network connection operable to receive from a network sequences of characters captured by a capture device, wherein the processor is configured to determine that a sequence of characters captured by the capture device includes a keyword that matches a first keyword of a first keyword-condition pair in the data structure, the first keyword-condition pair comprising the first keyword and first condition, and wherein the processor determines that the first condition is satisfied, and wherein the processor is configured to identify a first action associated with the first keyword-condition pair in the data structure. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15)
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16. A capture device comprising:
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a processor; a computer memory device storing a data structure, the data structure storing data representing a plurality of keyword-condition pairs and, for each keyword-condition pair, an associated action; and a capture component configured to capture a sequence of characters, wherein the processor is configured to determine that the captured sequence of characters includes a keyword that matches a first keyword of a first keyword-condition pair in the data structure, the first keyword-condition pair comprising the first keyword and a first condition, and wherein the processor is configured to determine that the first condition is satisfied, and wherein the processor is configured to identify a first action associated with the first keyword-condition pair in the data structure. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18)
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