Patent ID: 9635196
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A scanner for electronically scanning a plurality of physical documents, comprising a computer readable memory having a plurality of programmatic instructions which are adapted to: generate a display, before a scan job is initiated, for prompting a user to select whether compression should occur during the scan job, wherein the scan job comprises a scan of each of said plurality of physical documents; cause a first document of said plurality of physical documents to be scanned; generate a first image data of a plurality of image data corresponding to a scan of the first document of said plurality of physical documents; format the first image data into a TIFF, JPEG, PDF, XPS, or Multi-Page TIFF image format; if compression during the scan job is selected, compress said formatted first image data prior to completing all of the scans that comprise the scan job and electronically package said compressed formatted first image data into a unitary compressed file prior to completing all of the scans that comprise the scan job; subsequently generate remaining image data of the plurality of image data corresponding to a portion of remaining scans of documents of said plurality of physical documents; format the remaining image data into a TIFF, JPEG, PDF, XPS, or Multi-Page TIFF image format; if compression during the scan job is selected, compress said formatted remaining image data prior to completing all of the scans that comprise the scan job and electronically package said formatted remaining image data into the unitary compressed file prior to completing all of the scans that comprise the scan job, thereby yielding the unitary compressed file with compressed formatted image data corresponding to all of said plurality of physical documents upon scanning, formatting, and compressing a last of said plurality of physical documents; and attach said unitary compressed file to an electronic message.