Patent ID: 8717626

Claim:
A method for processing a digital document having at least one page and containing at least one coloured page element, the method comprising: first analyzing at least one page of the document to determine if the at least one page contains coloured page elements and thus is a coloured page; if the first analyzing step determines that the at least one page is a coloured page, second analyzing the coloured page elements contained in the at least one coloured page as to a desirability to be processed in a colour-dedicated processing channel or in another processing channel, wherein the step of second analyzing said coloured page elements is made based on whether each of the coloured page elements has a functional colour or a non-functional colour; and selectively processing said coloured page elements in the colour-dedicated processing channel or in the another processing channel based on results of the second analyzing step, wherein the first analyzing step and the second analyzing step are preformed by a digital image processing apparatus.