Patent ID: 8014040

Claim:
A scanner device, comprising: an interface module providing two-way communications between the scanner device and a separately housed user computer; an input system providing a first input device; a scanner module that, upon actuation of the first input device, scans a document to create a digital image of the document, wherein said document has predetermined information printed thereon, wherein said document further has handwritten changes to the predetermined information; a storage module storing a database or lookup table for receiving a request to scan a particular document and for uniquely determining from the digital image of the scanned particular document a user related to the particular document, said storage module using the database or lookup table to determine a corresponding information management software application on the user computer, and to further determine a specific data type of the corresponding information management software application, wherein the scanner periodically synchronizes with the computer to update said database or lookup table, wherein the storage module further receives, via user input subsequent to the received request, a specified one view of a plurality of selectable views of the specific data type; and a processor controlling operation of the scanner, said processor configured with instructions for: sending data comprising the digital image and the specified one view to the user computer for delivery to the corresponding information management software application executing on the computer, wherein receiving the request and sending said data is based on completion of scanning the document after the actuation of the first input device; and generating updated predetermined information formatted according to the specified one view and having a first portion of the handwritten changes incorporated therein as data values and having a remainder portion of the handwritten changes appended to the first portion as an image of a handwritten annotation.