Patent Document ID: 8494281
Application ID: 11476981

Base Claim:
1. A computer implemented method for retrieving documents based on highlighted text from a scanned source, comprising: scanning a document comprising highlighted text; displaying a first graphical user interface (GUI) window comprising fields for entering details of said highlighted text; searching a plurality of documents available from a network utilizing said highlighted text and said details of said highlighted text as keywords to identify matched documents containing said keywords; displaying said matched documents and details associated with each of said matched documents within a second GUI window comprising check boxes to allow individual selection of at least one of said matched documents; displaying a third GUI window comprising four sections, wherein a first section displays document titles of said selected matched documents, a second section displays an email check box, a third section displays a fax check box and a fourth section displays a print check box to allow selection of at least one action to be performed with respect to each of said selected matched documents, wherein a first action is selected for a first document and a second action, different from said first action, is selected for a second document of said matched documents, wherein said entering details of said highlighted text further comprises entering text color, highlight color, additional text present, and sources to be searched.

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Claim 2:
2. The computer implemented method of claim 1 wherein said details of said highlighted text are utilized as a uniform resource locator pointer to locate matching documents on the internet.