Patent ID: 8797603

Claim:
A method of managing document version information associated with a document, the method comprising: storing in a digital document management database a digital document file representing a document; storing in the digital document management database document version information linked to the digital document file; printing the document as a paper document using the digital document file, wherein the step of printing the paper document further comprises generating a document version image for the document being printed, the document version image comprising a barcode, encoding the document version image with at least some of the stored document version information associated with the document being printed, and printing the encoded document version image on the paper document; using an electronic image capture device, scanning the document version image printed on the paper document; decoding at least some of the document version information from the scanned document version image; and in a version comparison step, using a computerized document management processor functionally coupled to the digital document management database, comparing at least some of the document version information decoded from the scanned document version image to the stored document version information associated with the document.