METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SECURING CONFIDENTIAL CONTENT OF A DOCUMENT USING AN AUGMENTED REALITY APPLICATION
The present disclosure discloses methods and systems for securing confidential content of a document while printing, accessing, sharing and/or while reproducing the document. To this end, the method allows a user to select confidential content, generates a pre-defined code such as bar code corresponding to the confidential content, adds one or more symbols including bar code, logo in place of the confidential content and submits the document for printing. The document is printed such that the printed document includes non-confidential content, an IR security mark, bar code, and logo. Later at the time of accessing the secured printed document, the confidential content is retrieved and merged with the non-confidential content to output a complete document for further action such as view, print. The methods and systems disclose the implementation using an augmented reality application for securing the confidential content and/or for providing access to the confidential content.
1 . A method for securing and accessing confidential content of an original document, the method comprising:
receiving the original document;
receiving an indication of the confidential content in the original document;
amending the original document by masking the confidential content in the original document and adding a code to the original document at a location of the masked confidential content; and
outputting the amended document.
2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
adding a logo around the location.
3 . The method of claim 2 , further comprising:
receiving the outputted document;
detecting the logo in the outputted document;
accessing the code; and
identifying and retrieving the confidential content corresponding to the code.
4 . The method of claim 3 , further comprising:
matching the logo before retrieving the confidential content.
5 . The method of claim 3 , further comprising:
recreating the original document by merging the retrieved confidential content into the outputted document.
6 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
storing the confidential content over a cloud location.
7 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
generating the code.
8 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
adding an IR security mark to the amended document.
9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein outputting the amended document comprises:
one or more of printing the amended document or displaying the amended document.
10 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving the original document and the outputted document by an image capturing module.
11 . A computer system for executing an augmented reality (AR) application, the AR application securing and accessing confidential content of an original document, the computer system comprising:
a hardware processor;
a non-volatile storage medium storing instructions that when executed by the hardware processor perform operations comprising:
receiving the original document;
receiving an indication of the confidential content in the original document;
amending the original document by masking the confidential content in the original document and adding a code to the original document at a location of the masked confidential content; and
outputting the amended document.
12 . The computer system of claim 11 , further comprising:
adding a logo around the location.
13 . The computer system of claim 12 , further comprising:
receiving the outputted document;
detecting the logo in the outputted document;
accessing the code; and
identifying and retrieving the confidential content corresponding to the code.
14 . The computer system of claim 13 , further comprising:
matching the logo before retrieving the confidential content.
15 . The computer system of claim 13 , further comprising:
recreating the original document by merging the retrieved confidential content into the outputted document.
16 . The computer system of claim 11 , further comprising:
adding an IR security mark to the amended document.
17 . The computer system of claim 11 , wherein outputting the amended document comprises:
one or more of printing the amended document or displaying the amended document.
18 . The computer system of claim 11 , wherein the hardware processor comprises:
one or more of a mobile device or a multi-function device.
19 . A computer program product for executing an augmented reality (AR) application, the AR application securing and accessing confidential content of an original document, the computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computing device to cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:
receiving the original document;
receiving an indication of the confidential content in the original document;
amending the original document by masking the confidential content in the original document, adding a code to the original document at a location of the masked confidential content, and adding a logo around the location; and
outputting the amended document.
20 . The computer program product of claim 19 , wherein the operations further comprise:
receiving the outputted document;
detecting the logo in the outputted document;
accessing the code; and
identifying and retrieving the confidential content corresponding to the code.