Patent ID: 8736878

Claim:
A method comprising: displaying on a display of an image processing device a machine-readable code, wherein information encoded in the machine-readable code is usable by a mobile computing device to establish a communication session between the mobile computing device and the image processing device; receiving, at the image processing device from the mobile computing device, a communication establishing the communication session; in response to the receiving the communication establishing the communication session, sending, from the image processing device to the mobile computing device, a communication indicating the image processing device is ready to perform scanning of a physical document; receiving, at the image processing device from the mobile computing device, a scan command during the communication session; scanning, at the image processing device, the physical document in response to the scan command; and sending, from the image processing device to the mobile computing device, an electronic document representing the scanned physical document during the communication session, wherein the receiving the communication establishing the communication session, the sending the communication indicating the image processing device is ready to perform scanning of the physical document, the receiving the scan command, the scanning the physical document, and the sending the electronic document are performed over a period of time without requiring any user input operation for the entirety of the duration of the period from the receiving the communication establishing the communication session to the sending the electronic document.