Patent ID: 7557944
Filing Date: 2009-07-07
Classification: A63F,B41J,B42C,G01C,G06F,G06K,G09B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A copier including: a scanner for scanning a surface of a document, the document being printed with document content and a plurality of coded tags, each tag encoding an identity of the document and the position of that tag on the document, the scanner incorporating a sensor for sensing the coded tags; means for transmitting the document identity and tag position of a sensed tag to a computer system networked with the copier, the computer system identifying a digital version of the document from the received document identity and determining user input on the scanned document using the received tag position, the user input requesting copy content and/or coded data from the computer system; means for receiving the copy content and/or the coded data from the computer system; and a printer for printing a copy of the scanned document and for incorporating in said printed copy said scanned document content and coded tags and said received copy content and/or coded data.