Patent ID: 8286068

Claim:
A method of linking digital content with paper documents, the method comprising: monitoring a digital work area and automatically detecting the presence of a paper document laying directly or indirectly on the digital work area, the digital work area either capable of displaying, or arranged to have displayed thereon, an interactive graphical user interface (GUI) component generated by a computing device; in response to automatically detecting the presence of the paper document on the digital work area, automatically displaying the interactive graphical user interface component on the work area, wherein the graphical user interface component is displayed in proximity to the paper document according to a detected location of the paper document; generating and storing on the computing device a link that links the paper document to a digital document stored or accessible by the computing device; and detecting user interactions directed to the paper document with the graphical user interface component and in response using the stored link to perform operations, which are triggered by the user interactions, on the digital document, the using comprising, when a user interaction is detected, accessing the stored link to identify the digital document that corresponds to the paper document, and performing an operation on the identified digital document.