Print format version with overlaid machine-readable link
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsPrashant Asthana, Rajesh Bhatia, Bharani Nunna, Sekhar Sirigiri, Jeniki Pradeep Kumar
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Abstract
Examples disclosed herein relate to generating a print format version with an overlaid machine-readable link. As an example, a set of machine-readable links assigned to a user account from a remote repository is obtained. In response to a print command associated with the user account, one machine-readable link from amongst the set of the machine-readable links is selected and applied onto a portion of the digital document. Thereafter, a print format version of the digital document along with the machine-readable link is generated.
Claims15
A method comprising:
- by a print driver, obtaining from a remote repository of a linking service, a set of machine-readable links, with each of the machine-readable links being assigned in the linking service to a user account;
- intercepting, by the print driver, a print command within a print path of an operating system of a computing device, with the print command corresponding to the user account being issued in response to a request to print a digital document onto a print medium by the computing device;
- applying one of the obtained machine-readable links onto a portion of the digital document to be printed;
- generating a print format version of the digital document including the applied machine-readable link;
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- storing the generated print format version of the digital document including the applied machine-readable link to a network accessible location over a communication network.
A system comprising:
- a print driver, wherein the print driver is to,
- obtain a set of machine-readable links assigned to a user account from a remote repository;
- in response to detecting a print command for printing a digital document with the print command being associated with a user associated with the user account, select one machine-readable link from amongst the set of the machine-readable links;
- prior to executing the print command, overlay the selected machine-readable link onto a portion of the digital document to be printed;
- generate a print format version of the digital document including the overlaid machine-readable link;
- and
- store the generated print format version at a network accessible location over a communication network.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions executable by a processing resource to:
- obtain, by a print driver and from a remote repository of a linking service, a set of machine-readable links, with each of the machine-readable links being associated with a user account;
- monitor, by the print driver, a print path of an operating system for print commands from the user account;
- on detecting a print command for printing a digital document, embed a machine-readable link, from the set of machine-readable links obtained from the remote repository of the linking service, onto a portion of the digital document to be printed;
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- generate a print format version of the digital document with the embedded machine-readable link.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.