Patent ID: 8670140

Claim:
A transient document management system, comprising: a processor configured to control: a transient document information retrieval module operable to extract information from a transient physical document before the transient physical document expires, the transient physical document having an expiration date after which the information is no longer available to be extracted, due to natural fading or proactive erasing the transient physical document also having a transient document identifier printed thereon; and a transient document processing module operable to identify the transient physical document based on the transient document identifier and to perform data processing based on the information extracted from the transient physical document; and a memory configured to store the information extracted from the transient physical document, the extracted information comprising at least one of the following: information pertaining to when the transient physical document was first printed, information pertaining to when the transient document identifier was printed, and information pertaining to a date/time that the transient physical document was last scanned, wherein the processor is further configured to cause a message to be sent to a user, the message reminding the user to re-scan the transient physical document in order to avoid losing any transient information due to natural fading or proactive erasing.