Patent ID: 7747949
Filing Date: 2010-06-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for processing a physical document, said method comprising: creating a record in a selections table stored in a user device, said creating the record comprising entering into the record: a document number that identifies both the physical document and an electronic document that is an electronic copy of the physical document, a page number that identifies a page of the physical document and a corresponding page of the electronic document, and a network address of a server that stores the electronic document; receiving, by the user device, an identification of where a selected region within the page of the physical document is located within the page, wherein the identification identifies the coordinates of the vertices of a polygon drawn around the selected region, and wherein said receiving the identification comprises receiving the identification by the user device from a transparent Electro-Luminescent Digitizing Tablet (ELDT) while the transparent ELDT is aligned over the page of the physical document and has sensed the identification from the polygon drawn over the transparent ELDT and around the selected region; inserting the received identification into the record of the selections table, and sending, by the user device to a user workstation, selected data from the record of the selections table stored in the user device, wherein the selected data comprises the document number that identifies both the physical document and the electronic document that is an electronic copy of the physical document, the page number that identifies the page of the physical document and the corresponding page of the electronic document, and the network address of the server that stores the electronic document.