Systems and methods for managing documents containing one or more hyper texts and related information

A method, comprising:

• receiving an index page along with a document for scanning, the index page comprises one or more text phrases to be hyperlinked and additional information related to each text phrase, the additional information comprises a hyperlink corresponding to a text phrase, a page number of the text phrase and an ordinal number of occurrence of the text phrase on the page number;
• scanning the index page to create a scanned index page;
• performing an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on the scanned index page to extract the one or more text phrases and the additional information related to each text phrase;
• scanning the document to create a scanned version of the document;
• performing OCR on the document to extract content of the document;
• comparing the extracted additional information related to each text phrase with the content of the document, wherein comparing comprises searching for,
• (i) a page number,
• (ii) a text phrase on the page number, and
• (iii) an ordinal number of the text phrase in the extracted content of the document;
• for each text phrase of the index page, embedding the corresponding hyperlink to the searched text phrase in the extracted content of the document;
• creating a digital version of the document including the embedded hyperlink corresponding to each text phrase;
• and
• sending the digital version of the document to a computing device of a user, where the digital version of the document includes the hyperlink corresponding to each text phrase.

A system for maintaining one or more hyperlinks while printing a document, the system comprises:

• a receiving module for:
• receiving the document containing one or more hyper texts from a computing device of a user, wherein each hyper text is associated with a corresponding hyperlink, the one or more hyper texts are formatted differently than remaining content of the document;
• a hyperlink manager configured for:
• parsing the document to identify and extract the one or more hyper texts;
• identifying and extracting information related to the one or more hyper texts, the information comprises a hyper text, a hyperlink corresponding to the hyper text, a page number of the hyper text and an ordinal number of occurrence of the hyper text on the page number;
• creating an index page including the one or more hyper texts and the information related to the one or more hyper texts;
• and
• a printing module configured for printing the index page along with printing the document, the printed document includes the one or more hyper texts in the original format, the index page comprising the one or more hyper texts and the information related to the one or more hyper texts and the index page enables the user to refer to the information related to the one or more hyper texts.

A system, comprising:

• a platen configured for:
• receiving an index page along with a document for scanning, the index page comprises one or more text phrases to be hyperlinked and additional information related to each text phrase, the additional information comprises a hyperlink corresponding to a text phrase, a page number of the text phrase and an ordinal number of occurrence of the text phrase on the page number;
• a scanning module configured for:
• scanning the index page to create a scanned index page;
• and
• scanning the document to create a scanned document;
• an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) module configured for:
• performing an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on the scanned index page to extract the one or more text phrases and the additional information related to each text phrase;
• performing OCR on the document to extract content of the document;
• and
• a hyperlink manager configured for:
• comparing the extracted additional information related to each text phrase with the content of the document, wherein comparing comprises:
• searching for,
• (i) a page number,
• (ii) a text phrase on the page number, and
• (iii) an ordinal number of the text phrase in the extracted content of the document;
• for each text phrase of the index page, embedding the corresponding hyperlink to the searched text phrase in the extracted content of the document;
• creating a digital version of the document including the embedded hyperlink corresponding to each text phrase;
• and
• sending the digital version of the document to a computing device of a user, where the digital version of the document includes the hyperlink corresponding to each text phrase.