System and method for determining recipient information from a document

A method, comprising:

• scanning a document;
• retrieving user addresses from a stored address book;
• performing optical character recognition (OCR) on at least a portion of the document;
• determining identifying indicia of a destination address for the document based at least in part on the OCR portion of the document;
• comparing determined identifying indicia to user addresses in the address book;
• generating additional address information from the address book in accordance with a comparison of the identifying indicia to the user addresses;
• displaying at least one of the identifying indicia to a user for selection;
• receiving, from the user, a selection of at least one of the identifying indicia as the destination address for the document;
• displaying additional address information;
• receiving, from the user, a selection of at least one additional address from the displayed additional address information;
• and
• sending the document to the selected destination address and the at least one additional address.

A system, comprising:

• a processor configured to
• receive, from a scanner, a digital image of a scanned document,
• determine, from the digital image, one or more recipient addresses printed on the scanned document,
• retrieve address book information from a stored address book,
• compare the one or more recipient addresses to retrieved address book information,
• generate additional addresses for one or more recipient addresses in accordance with a comparison of the one or more recipient addresses with the retrieved address book information,
• generate a user selectable list of one or more recipient addresses and corresponding additional addresses,
• display, via an associated user interface, the user selectable list to a user, and
• send the scanned document to recipient addresses selected by the user from the user selectable list.