Patent ID: 8023161

Claim:
A method for providing page description language (“PDL”) encapsulated image data from an imaging device that includes a scanner, the method comprising: scanning an image using the scanner to produce scanned image data as part of a scan job; obtaining document formatting inputs for the scan job from a user interface, the document formatting inputs being configurable at the user interface, and wherein the document formatting inputs comprise copy function options and scan function options usable with the scan job, the copy function options controlling the page orientation, page margins, and page size of the scan job; encapsulating the scanned image data in a page description language using the document formatting inputs for document formatting, wherein: the encapsulating occurs at the imaging device, the page description language comprises page properties and one or more drawing elements, the one or more drawing elements comprise drawing element attributes, the drawing element attributes are determined by the scan function options, the scanned image data is encapsulated initially according to page properties determined by the scanner, the page properties are modified in accordance with the copy function options, and the document formatting inputs control how the scanned image data is framed into a document defined by the page description language; and transmitting the page description language to a computing device from the imaging device, wherein the page description language that is transmitted indicates the page size, the page margins, and the page orientation of the scanned image data.