Bitmap processing of digital documents
AssigneeBroadridge Output Solutions, Inc.
InventorsFrank Delfer, Marc J. Fagan, Charles Preston
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Abstract
A bitmap processing system for creating digital documents on a digital printing press by a fulfiller includes a fulfiller operated raster image processor that receives customer application Page Description Language (PDL) job files containing information for creating the digital documents and generates bitmaps in accordance with the files and a fulfiller operated editor that modifies the bitmaps so that the resulting documents process more efficiently in production steps downstream of a printing process.
Claims10
A bitmap processing system for creating digital documents, comprising:
- a fulfiller operated raster image processor that:
- receives customer application Page Description Language (PDL) job files containing information for creating the digital documents;
- generates bitmaps in accordance with the customer application PDL job files;
- and
- extracts and outputs customer application PDL job files and factory-ready metadata files using an application-specific extraction script on the bitmaps for more efficient processing including finishing and mailing.
A method, comprising:
- receiving, by at least one processor, customer application Page Description Language (PDL) job files containing information for creating the digital documents;
- generating, by the at least one processor, bitmaps in accordance with the PDL job files;
- extracting, by the at least one processor, customer application PDL job files and factory-ready metadata files using an application-specific extraction script on the bitmaps for more efficient processing including finishing and mailing;
- and
- outputting, by the at least one processor, the customer application PDL job files and the factory-ready metadata files with the bitmaps of the file.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.