Patent ID: 7817295

Claim:
A method for a computer system for transmitting a facsimile or scanned image to an electronic destination address, comprises: receiving the facsimile or scanned image, wherein the facsimile or scanned image comprises a digitized representation of an instruction page, wherein the digitized representation of the instruction page includes an optical representation of the electronic destination address, and wherein the digitized representation of the instruction page is encoded in a first format; determining the electronic destination address from the optical representation of the electronic destination address, wherein the electronic destination address need not be known to the computer system before receiving the facsimile or scanned image; converting at least the digitized representation of the instruction page encoded in the first format to a digitized representation of the instruction page encoded in a second format; determining additional service provider data in response to the facsimile or the scanned image; and transmitting the additional service provider data and a transmission to the electronic destination address, wherein the transmission is determined in response to the digitized representation of the instruction page encoded in the second format.