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US 2018/0278792 A1Published application
System and method for storing scanned documents
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorLouis ORMOND
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Abstract
A system and method for simplified scanning of tangible documents commences with scanning them into electronic documents on an MFP. The MFP controller generates a scan command indicia and commences a scan when it is selected by a user. A processor in the controller generates an electronic document file from the scan operation associatively with a scan folder file and generates scan folder file indicia on a display and electronic document indicia corresponding to each electronic document file in the scan folder. A user selects a document and specifies instructions for processing the document which is completed by the processor.
Claims20
A multifunction peripheral comprising:
- a scan engine configured to scan tangible documents into electronic documents;
- an intelligent controller including a processor and memory;
- and
- a user interface including a display and a user input,
- wherein the processor is configured for generating a scan command indicia corresponding to a scan command on the display,
- wherein the processor is further configured to commence a scan operation by the scan engine in accordance with a user scan request corresponding a user selection corresponding to the scan command indicia received via the user input,
- wherein the processor is further configured to save an electronic document file from the scan operation associatively with a scan folder file,
- wherein the processor is further configured to generate a folder indicia on the display corresponding scan folder file,
- wherein the processor is further configured to generate, on the display, electronic document indicia corresponding to each electronic document file saved with the scan folder,
- wherein the processor is further configured to receive, via the user input, a user document selection corresponding to an electronic document associated with a displayed document indicia,
- wherein the processor is further configured to receive document processing instructions corresponding to an electronic document file specified by the user document selection, and
- wherein the processor is further configured to process the electronic document file specified by the document processing instructions on the specified electronic document file.
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A method comprising:
- scanning, on a multifunction peripheral, a plurality of tangible documents into a corresponding plurality of electronic documents in accordance with receipt of a user selected scan operation;
- saving the electronic documents associatively with a scan folder file;
- generating a folder indicia, on a display, corresponding to the scan folder file;
- generating, on the display, electronic document indicia corresponding to each electronic document file saved with the scan folder;
- receiving a user document selection corresponding to an electronic document associated with a displayed document indicia;
- receiving document processing instructions corresponding to an electronic document file specified by the user document selection;
- and
- processing the electronic document file specified by the document processing instructions on the specified electronic document file.
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A multifunction peripheral comprising:
- a scan engine configured to scan tangible documents into electronic documents;
- an intelligent controller including a processor and memory;
- and
- a touchscreen display,
- wherein the processor is configured for generating a scan command icon corresponding to a scan command on the touchscreen display,
- wherein the processor is further configured to commence a scan operation by the scan engine for each of a plurality of tangible documents in accordance with a user scan request corresponding to a user selection of the scan command icon,
- wherein the processor is further configured to save an electronic document file corresponding to each of the plurality of tangible documents associatively with a scan folder file,
- wherein the processor is further configured to generate a folder icon on the touchscreen display corresponding to scan folder file,
- wherein the processor is further configured to generate, on the touchscreen display, a plurality of document icons wherein each document icon corresponds to an electronic document file saved with the scan folder,
- wherein the processor is further configured to receive a user selection of a document icon on the touchscreen display,
- wherein the processor is further configured to receive document processing instructions for an electronic document file specified by a selected document icon, and
- wherein the processor is further configured to process a specified electronic document specified in accordance with the document processing instruction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.