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AssigneeKonica Minolta Systems Laboratory, Inc.
InventorsPaul Cattrone, Hiroshi Tomite, Vlvek Pathak
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A document is printed on a recoding medium together with a high resolution 2d barcode that encodes desired information about the document, and a low resolution 2d barcode that encode resolution data that specifies the spatial resolution of the high resolution barcode. The low resolution barcode has a sufficiently low spatial resolution so that it can be adequately read by a majority of scanners at their low resolution settings. Thus, if the printed document is scanned at a low scan resolution, the low resolution barcode can be adequately read to extract the resolution data in order to determined whether the scan resolution is adequate for reading the high resolution barcode. If necessary, the printed document can be re-scanned at a higher scan resolution so that the high resolution barcode can be adequately read. Alternatively, the resolution data may specify the print resolution at which the document is printed.
A method for printing a document, comprising:
A method for processing a printed document, the printed document containing first barcode encoding information about the document and second barcode encoding resolution data that specifies a spatial resolution of the first barcode, the second barcode having a spatial resolution lower than the spatial resolution of the first barcode, the method comprising:
A method for printing a document, comprising:
A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having a computer readable code embodied therein for controlling a data processing system, the computer readable program code configured to cause the data processing system to execute a process for printing a document comprising the steps of:
A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having a computer readable code embodied therein for controlling a data processing system, the computer readable program code configured to cause the data processing system to execute a process for processing a scanned document, the scanned document containing first barcode encoding information about the document and second barcode encoding resolution data that specifies a spatial resolution of the first barcode, the second barcode having a spatial resolution lower than the spatial resolution of the first barcode, the process comprising the steps of:
A recording medium on which a document and barcode are printed, the barcode encoding resolution data that specifies a print resolution at which the document and the barcode are printed.
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