Patent application number | Description | Published |
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20090028392 | Document Comparison Method And Apparatus - The method compares a first document | 01-29-2009 |
20090059309 | Document And Method Of Producing A Document - A physical document comprising a human-readable part and a machine-readable part, wherein the machine-readable part comprises markup that describes information on at least one of the document and data within the human-readable part. | 03-05-2009 |
20090128865 | Simplified Operation Of Scan Based Devices - A document scanner comprises a scan bed, and a processor means which is adapted to: analyse a scanned image to detect one or more defined markings on the scanned document in addition to and adjacent the document content desired to be scanned by the user; and in response to detection of one or more defined markings, to control the document scanner in response to the defined markings. | 05-21-2009 |
20090257098 | Simplified Operation Of Scan And Print Devices - An apparatus comprising a document scanner and printer is controlled to scan a document and generate and print an annotation version of the document. A user-completed annotation version of the document is scanned and analyzed to detect one or more defined markings on the scanned document in addition to the document content desired to be scanned by the user. The apparatus is controlled in response to the defined markings. | 10-15-2009 |
20090259663 | Information Access Device And Network - An information access device is disclosed comprising an interface for connecting the information access device to a network; a further interface for providing the information access device with a string of information request indicators; an interpretation layer for extracting an information source from the string and for generating an instruction for triggering a different application of the device to retrieve the information from the information source; and a processor for executing the generated instruction. | 10-15-2009 |
20100011280 | Forms Management System - An electronic forms management system is provided. The electronic forms management system includes a publishing unit, a data input unit and a server. The publishing unit is adapted to publish the form templates to the server. The data input unit is connected to the server, and is adapted to receive input data. The server is adapted to process the published form templates and the input data. In addition, the server includes an Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) framework which is being adapted to receive one or more ICR engines for recognizing the input data. | 01-14-2010 |
20100309527 | ANNOTATION ON MEDIA SHEET INDICATING FUNCTIONALITY TO BE PERFORMED IN RELATION TO IMAGE ON MEDIA SHEET - A media sheet is scanned. The media sheet has an image and an annotation. The annotation indicates a functionality to be performed in relation to the image. The annotation on the media sheet as scanned is detected. The functionality to be performed in relation to the image is determined in correspondence to the annotation detected on the media sheet. The functionality to which the annotation corresponds is performed in relation to the image. | 12-09-2010 |
20100310192 | DOCUMENT STORAGE SYSTEM - Methods for storing and managing hard copy documents and their modified versions are disclosed. Specifically, a method of storing a document and one or more related images of alterations made to the document, comprising capturing an image of the document; storing the image of the document in memory; capturing an image of an altered version of the document; comparing the image of the document to the image of the altered version of the document; extracting the differences between the image of the document and the image of the altered version of the document; creating an image of the extracted differences between the image of the document and the image of the altered version of the document; and storing the image of the extracted differences in memory. | 12-09-2010 |
20110080618 | SECURE DOCUMENT WORKFLOW - Presented is a method, for a participant in a secure document workflow, of generating workflow information for authenticating a document. The method comprises: receiving an image of the document; generating workflow information for the document image, including a document image descriptor dependent upon the appearance of the document image for later verifying the authenticity of a version of the document image that has been printed and scanned, the verification comprising electronically combining or comparing the document image descriptor with said version of the document image; generating a digital signature for later verifying the authenticity of the workflow information, the digital signature being derived from the workflow information using a cryptographic key associated with the participant; adding the digital signature to the workflow information; and communicating the document image and the workflow information to another workflow participant. | 04-07-2011 |
20110170144 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING - Proposed is the use of a document widget for representing a property of a document. The document widget comprises: a human-readable portion for interpretation by a user; and a machine-readable portion representing the document property. By comprising information about a property of a document, a document widget may be processed in accordance with an optical recognition process so as to identify the document widget and enable extraction of the document property. | 07-14-2011 |
20120026081 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING PAPER AS AN INTERFACE TO COMPUTER APPLICATIONS - A system and method for using paper to interface with handwritten annotations and/or pre-defined templates with one or more computer applications is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes imaging content in the paper including pre-defined handwritten commands, associated syntax, one or more computer application identifiers and pointed data which is already existing on the paper, analyzing the imaged content to identify the pre-defined handwritten commands, the one or more computer applications associated with the one or more computer application identifiers, the associated syntax and the pointed data, extracting the pointed data into a specified format associated with the one or more computer applications, executing the one or more computer applications based on the identified pre-defined handwritten commands, the one or more computer application identifiers and the associated syntax, and importing the extracted pointed data into the one or more executed computer applications. | 02-02-2012 |
20120030234 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A SEARCH QUERY - A computer-implemented method for generating a search query for searching a source of data is disclosed. The method comprises:
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20120087596 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PIPELINED IMAGE PROCESSING - A system and method for pipeline image processing is disclosed. In one example embodiment the one or more swaths of the image may be received on the server from a client device connected to the server via a network. The received one or more swaths are processed on a swath by swath basis to obtain one or more image quality parameters. The obtained one or more image quality parameters are compared with a predetermined threshold level. The obtained one or more image quality parameters may be sent to the client device for further processing of the image based on the obtained one or more image quality parameters. | 04-12-2012 |
20120105906 | PRINTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Disclosed is a printing system and method for printing documents over a network. The system comprises: a document server connected to the network, the documents being accessible via the document server; a client device connected to the network and adapted to transmit a document print request identifying a document to be printed; a print access server connected to the network and adapted to receive the document print request and, in response to the received document print request, transmit a print token, the print token identifying the document to be printed and a printer for printing the document; and a printer connected to the network, the printer being adapted to receive a print token and to retrieve and print a document via the document server based on the received print token. | 05-03-2012 |
20120134576 | AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION OF IMAGES - Presented is a method of automatically performing an action, based on graphical input. The method comprises: receiving, for a user, an input image; comparing the input image with the contents of a user-customized database comprising a plurality of records, each record representing a predefined class of image, wherein the user has previously associated records in the database with respective specified actions; attempting to recognize the image, based on the similarity of the input image to one of the predefined classes of image represented in the user-customised database; and if the image is recognized, performing the action previously associated by the user with the class. Also presented is apparatus for recognizing an image and a method of constructing a user-customized database. | 05-31-2012 |
20140108456 | Image triggered transactions - In one example, a method for image triggered transactions includes capturing an image of a document with an imaging device and searching a database for a template matching the captured image. If a matching template is found for the captured image, then retrieving pre-authored tasks associated with the captured image, extracting fields from the image related to the tasks, processing the extracted fields to obtain content to complete the tasks; and executing the selected task. If a matching template is not found for the captured image, then an authoring application is launched to add the captured image as a new template and author tasks associated with the captured image. | 04-17-2014 |
20140195885 | INTEGRATING DOCUMENT RELATED COMMUNICATION WITH A DOCUMENT - Provided is a method of integrating a document related communication with a document. A communication interface is provided for a user to establish a document related communication with another user. The document related communication with another user is recorded and a link to the recorded document related communication with another user is provided with the document. | 07-10-2014 |
20140201131 | TECHNIQUES PERTAINING TO DOCUMENT CREATION - Disclosed are techniques pertaining to the creation of a social document through a collaboration. A server executing a social document management application may create a document comprised of content. The social document management application may also create an adhoc workflow process associated with the document in which the workflow process includes steps to create the content of the document. Collaborators may be assigned to work on the steps of the workflow process. In addition, tasks associated with the steps of the workflow process may be assigned to the collaborators and tracked. The tasks may be assigned by selecting content directly within the document and assigning a task pertaining to the selected content. The steps of the workflow process may then be approved. | 07-17-2014 |
20140298198 | COLLABORATIVE EDITING OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - Systems and methods for editing electronic documents in collaborative environment are described. In one implementation, a document collaboration system comprises a processor, and a scheduling module, coupled to the processor. The scheduling module receives request of a user for either one of collaborative editing and collaborative reviewing a section of the electronic document during a schedule time selected by the user. The scheduling module further retrieves a schedule from the user from an electronic calendar of the user. The scheduling module ascertains the electronic document availability in the selected schedule time slot. On ascertaining the availability of the electronic document during the selected time slot, the scheduling module determines availability of users in the selected schedule time slot. The scheduling module provides permission to either one of the collaborative editing and collaborative reviewing the section of the electronic document, for the selected schedule time, based on determining. | 10-02-2014 |