Patent ID: 7283274
Filing Date: 2007-10-16
Classification: A01H

Abstract:
1. A method of printing user data to a form document comprising: receiving scanned document data for a form document; creating a scanned document image from the scanned document data; displaying the scanned document image on a display; receiving user data; displaying the user data as part of a user data image, on the display; enabling a user to link the user data to another item of user data, such that the linked user data is configured to be moved simultaneously with the another item of user data, relative to the scanned document image; automatically aligning the user data with the scanned document image using data codes from the scanned document, wherein different data codes specify different types of user data to be located proximate to the different data codes and, wherein automatically aligning the user data includes, identifying the data codes in the scanned document, creating fields for the entry of the user data proximate to the locations of the data codes in response to identifying the data codes in the scanned document, and inserting the user data specified by the data codes into the fields; enabling a user to adjust the alignment of the user data with the scanned document image by linking user data within the user data image into at least one group and aligning the at least one group with the scanned document image; and printing the user data onto the form document.