Document separator pages
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsJohn Barrus, Kurt Piersol, Steve Savitzky
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Abstract
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for using document separator sheets is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises scanning a plurality of sheets having a plurality of documents to be added to one or more collections, identifying the start of each of the plurality of documents based on a separator page preceding each of the plurality of documents, and adding the plurality of documents to the one or more collections.
Claims35
A method comprising:
- scanning a plurality of sheets having a plurality of documents to be added to one or more collections;
- identifying the start of each of the plurality of documents based on a separator page preceding each of the plurality of documents;
- and
- adding the plurality of documents to the one or more collections.
An article of manufacture having one or more recordable media with instructions thereon which, when executed by a system, cause the system to perform a method comprising:
- scanning a plurality of sheets having a plurality of documents to be added to one or more collections;
- identifying the start of each of the plurality of documents based on a separator page preceding each of the plurality of documents;
- and
- adding the plurality of documents to the one or more collections.
An apparatus comprising:
- means for scanning a plurality of sheets having a plurality of documents to be added to one or more collections;
- means for identifying the start of each of the plurality of documents based on a separator page preceding each of the plurality of documents;
- and
- means for adding the plurality of documents to the one or more collections.
A method comprising:
- identifying a start and an end of a subcollection through the use of collection separator sheets;
- and
- adding the subcollection and the plurality of documents to the collection.
An article of manufacture having one or more recordable media with instructions thereon which, when executed by a system, cause the system to perform a method comprising:
- identifying a start and an end of a subcollection through the use of collection separator sheets;
- and
- adding the subcollection to the collection.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.