Patent ID: 7830571
Filing Date: 2010-11-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for managing documents, comprising: (a) receiving a scanned version of an edited hardcopy of a document from an image capture device; (aa) electronically processing the scanned version of the edited hardcopy of the document to extract document index ID information from the scanned version of the edited hardcopy of the document; (ab) utilizing the document index ID information extracted from the scanned version of the edited hardcopy of the document in (aa), to determine automatically whether a previous electronic version of the document associated with the document index ID information is in an electronic database; (b) uploading said scanned version of the edited hardcopy of the document to the electronic database, and if it is automatically determined in (ab) based on the document index ID information extracted from the scanned version of the edited hardcopy of the document that the previous version of the document associated with the document index ID information is in the electronic database, automatically linking said scanned version of the edited hardcopy of the document to the previous electronic version of the document in the database as an update of said previous electronic version of the document, without a user specifying said previous electronic version; and (c) maintaining a grouping of a plurality of electronic versions of the document in the database.