Patent ID: 8102547

Claim:
An apparatus for preventing computer recognition of data, comprising: a printer interface, wherein the printer interface receives a request to print a document; a user interface, wherein the user interface receives a readability value from a user, wherein the readability value is a value within a range indicating a degree of readability of a text, wherein the readability value determines a degree to which the text is non-scannable within a range between readability and non-scannability, wherein a first set of nonstandard fonts are introduced into the text at a first readability value in the range and a second set of nonstandard fonts is introduced at a second readability value in the range, and wherein the text at the second readability value is more difficult to read and more difficult to scan by an optical character recognizer than the text at the first readability value; a text modification tool, wherein the text modification tool modifies the text in the document based on the readability value so that the text cannot be recognized by a character recognition algorithm; and a controller, wherein the controller prints the document.