Patent ID: 6678067
Filing Date: 2004-01-13
Classification: G06K,G06T

Abstract:
In a printing system including a print server, a printer, print media feed and take-up equipment, and document position sensors, a document inspection system including:a desired location determiner that determines a desired location of a region under inspection in a current document whose position is variable as between the current document and other documents in a given print job; the region under inspection being a region where desired content of the current document is supposed to appear; the desired content varying as between the current document and other documents in a given print job; a content analyzer that analyzes actual content in the region under inspection in a scanned image of the current document to determine whether errors have been made during printing of the current document; and an error indication system that takes an error notification action when errors have been made to a predetermined extent wherein the desired location determiner receives information concerning a change in the desired location of a region tinder inspection as between the current document and another of the documents in the given print job and the content analyzer analyzes the actual content in the changed-location region under inspection in a scanned image of the another of the documents to determine whether errors have been made in the another document.