Patent ID: 9736330
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: G06K,H04N

Claim:
1. A method of creating a copy of a document, comprising: receiving an electronic representation of a document to be printed onto a substrate; identifying a non-invasive watermark to be printed on the substrate; analyzing the document and the non-invasive watermark to determine whether a first threshold amount of the non-invasive watermark can be printed in a white space of the document by: determining that the amount of the non-invasive watermark that can be printed in the white space is less than the first threshold; in response to determining that the amount of the non-invasive watermark that can be printed in the white space is less than the first threshold, modifying at least a portion of the non-invasive watermark to comprise an invasive watermark portion that, when printed, will cover a portion of the document content that is outside of the white space of the document; and creating a secure copy of the document by: