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US 2006/0069630 A1Published application
Coding apparatus and method
OwnerColin McCavittinventor
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for permitting the scanning of database information from a data-containing document. The data-containing document may be a bill, invoice or fillable form, and contains both database information and bar code symbology containing the database information. A user needing to input the database information, instead of doing so manually, may do so by scanning the bar code symbology.
Claims12
A scannable data-containing document comprising, in combination:
- data-containing document;
- database information displayed on said data-containing document;
- and
- bar code symbology on said data-containing document;
- wherein said bar code symbology contains said database information.
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A method for permitting the automated inputting of database information comprising the steps of:
- providing a data-containing document;
- one of providing and receiving database information on said data-containing document;
- providing bar code symbology on said data-containing document;
- wherein said bar code symbology contains said database information;
- and
- scanning said bar code symbology to extract said database information.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.