Patent ID: 7982898

Claim:
A method of creating a printed interactive document using a printer connected to a computer, said method comprising the steps of: (a) receiving a print request for the interactive document at the computer, said print request being based on a document stored in the computer, said document including human-readable graphic content; (b) requesting and retrieving a unique document identity in response to the print request; (c) indexing the document with the unique document identity and archiving the indexed document in a database; (d) sending the unique document identity and the graphic content of the document to the printer; and (e) printing the graphic content onto a substrate and at the same time printing coded data coincident with the graphic content onto the substrate so as to create the printed interactive document, said coded data identifying the unique document identity and a plurality of locations on the substrate, wherein the printed interactive document is interactive by virtue of the coded data functioning in cooperation with the graphic content to provide user interactivity with the graphic content.