Patent Document ID: 7649643
Application ID: 11190705

Base Claim:
1. A method of generating a finished document with a printing system comprising: generating an electronic document; identifying a plurality of insertion positions in the electronic document for placement of scanned images of hardcopy documents; sending the electronic document with the identified insertion positions to a printing system that is coupled to a scanner; detecting identification of insertion positions in the electronic document from a header of the electronic document; holding the electronic document from being processed by the printing system in response to the detection of the insertion position identifications; selecting through a user interface of the printing system the electronic document for further processing by the printing system; displaying an indication for hardcopy scanning and the insertion position in the electronic document for a scanned image in response to the electronic document selection; scanning a hardcopy document with the scanner of the printing system to generate an image of the hardcopy document; inserting the image of the hardcopy document in the electronic document at the displayed insertion position; continuing to display an indication for hardcopy scanning and another insertion position in the electronic document for a scanned image, to scan a hardcopy document with the scanner to generate an image of the hardcopy document, and to insert the image of the scanned hardcopy document into the electronic document at the displayed insertion position until all of the insertion positions have been displayed and hardcopy document images have been inserted into the electronic document at all of the identified insertion positions; releasing the electronic document for processing by the printing system in response to hardcopy document images being inserted into the electronic document at all of the identified insertion positions; and printing with the printing system the electronic document with all of the hardcopy document images inserted into the electronic document at all of the identified insertion positions.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 further comprising: detecting correspondence between a user identification entered through the user interface and the electronic document selected through the user interface before the indications of hardcopy scanning and the insertion positions are displayed.