Patent ID: 6765688
Filing Date: 2004-07-20
Classification: G06K,H04N

Abstract:
A method for generating a secondary image contained within an initial document onto a subsequent portion of the initial document to generate a finished document to be produced by a document producer, comprising:identifying a first body of data within the initial document to be used as the secondary image; identifying a second body of data within the initial document to be used as the subsequent portion of the initial document; providing the initial document to the document producer as a selected one of data file or a tangible document form; formatting the initial document into an initial digital document file capable of being processed by the document producer into at least part of the final document; storing in a computer readable memory the portion of the initial digital document file comprising the first body of data as a secondary image data file; storing in the computer readable memory a portion of the initial digital document file comprising the second body of data as a primary image data file; selectively combining, within the document producer, the secondary image data file and at least a portion of the primary image data file using a computer processor to generate a digital representation of at least one page of the finished document; and generating, using the document producer, the at least one page of the finished document in final form from the digital representation of the at least one page of the finished document.