Patent ID: 8687212

Claim:
A method for protecting content printed on a fax confirmation sheet which contains an image of a first page of a faxed document, the method comprising: receiving a digital image of a fax document; identifying content in a first page of said digital image to be displayed on a fax confirmation page; modifying, selectively, one or more characters of said identified content, within a given text size with other visible markings, such that said one or more characters with said substituted visible markings is no longer visibly legible by blurring said identified content using a Gaussian blur function with a value of sigma, where sigma is selected based on said given text size for each row of text; obtaining a template of said fax confirmation page for said fax document; combining said modified content with said retrieved fax confirmation page template, said combination comprising said fax confirmation page, said modified content being combined with said fax confirmation page template in a manner which preserves a spatial relationship of content as it appears on said first page; and providing said fax confirmation page to an output device.