Patent ID: 7944573

Claim:
A method for a computer system for transmitting a facsimile or scanned image to an electronic destination address, comprises: receiving the facsimile or scanned image, wherein the facsimile or scanned image comprises a digitized representation of an instruction page and a digitized representation of a document, wherein the digitized representation of the instruction page includes an optical representation of the electronic destination address, and wherein the digitized representation of the document is encoded in a first format; determining the electronic destination address from the optical representation of the electronic destination address, wherein the electronic destination address need not be known to the computer system before receiving the facsimile or scanned image; converting the digitized representation of the document encoded in the first format to a digitized representation of the document encoded in a second format, wherein a watermark is added to the digitized representation of the document; determining additional service provider data in response to the facsimile or the scanned image; and transmitting the additional service provider data and the digitized representation of the document encoded in the second format to the electronic destination address.