AUTOMATIC MODIFICATION OF WEB PAGES
Systems and methods for quickly and easily getting information about, or included in, a paper document into a public or private digital page. One embodiment of an example system includes a scanner that generates scan information from at least a portion of a paper document and a processing system that receives the generated scan information from the scanner, accesses a database of digital documents, searches the database based on the received scan information, locates a digital document corresponding to the paper document, and sends either the digital content or a hyperlink to the digital content to a predetermined web page.
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20 . A method in a computing system for automatically modify a distinguished document, comprising:
receiving a text string recognized in an image captured from a rendered document;
identifying a document containing the received text string; and
modifying the distinguished document to include a link to the identified document.
21 . The method of claim 20 wherein the distinguished document is a web page.
22 . The method of claim 20 wherein the capture is performed by a distinguished user, the method further comprising identifying the distinguished document as corresponding to the distinguished user.
23 . The method of claim 20 , further comprising modifying the distinguished document to include a contiguous portion of text in the identified document that contains the received text during.
24 . The method of claim 20 wherein the link that the distinguished document is modified to include comprises a URL.
25 . The method of claim 20 , further comprising analyzing the captured image to recognize the received text string.
26 . The method of claim 25 , further comprising capturing the image from the rendered document.
27 . A computer-readable medium having contents capable of causing a computing system to perform a method for automatically modifying a distinguished document, the method comprising:
receiving an image captured from a rendered document;
on the basis of the received image, identifying a document corresponding to the rendered document from which the image was captured; and
modifying the distinguished document to include a link to the identified document.
28 . The computer-readable medium of claim 27 wherein the distinguished document is a web page.
29 . The computer-readable medium of claim 27 wherein the capture is performed by a distinguished user, the method further comprising identifying the distinguished document as corresponding to the distinguished user.
30 . The computer-readable medium of claim 27 , the method further comprising modifying the distinguished document to include a contiguous portion of text in the identified document that is shown in the received image.
31 . The computer-readable medium of claim 27 wherein the link that the distinguished document is modified to include comprises a URL.
32 . The computer-readable medium of claim 27 , the method further comprising capturing the image from the rendered document.
33 . A computing system for automatically modifying a distinguished document, comprising:
a receiver that receives an image captured from a rendered document;
an identification subsystem that, on the basis of the received image, identifies a document corresponding to the rendered document from which the image was captured; and
a distinguished document modification subsystem that modifies the distinguished document to include a link to the identified document.
34 . The computing system of claim 33 wherein the distinguished document is a web page.
35 . The computing system of claim 33 wherein the capture is performed by a distinguished user, further comprising a distinguished document identification subsystem that identifies the distinguished document as corresponding to the distinguished user.
36 . The computing system of claim 33 wherein the distinguished document modification subsystem further modifies the distinguished document to include a contiguous portion of text in the identified document that is shown in the received image.
37 . The computing system of claim 33 wherein the link that the distinguished document modification subsystem modifies the distinguished document to include comprises a URL.
38 . The computing system of claim 33 , further comprises an image sensor that captures the image from the rendered document.