Scan privacy tool and methods
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorsNeil-Paul BERMUNDO, Philip Ver DABON
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Abstract
A multi-functional printing (MFP) includes a scan privacy tool to allow edits and changes to a scanned document image to remove or hide private information within a document. The scan privacy tool is enabled for jobs on the MFP device and launches when a job is run. The document is scanned and a scanned document image displayed on a display and edit interface of the scan privacy tool. Changes are made to the image using tools available through the scan privacy tool. The changes are applied to the scanned document image. The modified image is saved and transmitted to an engine in the MFP device to complete the job.
Claims21
1-20. (canceled)
A system comprising:
- a scanning component to generate an image file of a document;
- a scan privacy tool including
- an imaging interface to store the scanned image file from the scanning component in a memory location within the scan privacy tool;
- a display and edit interface to receive the scanned image file from the imaging interface, wherein the display and edit interface is configured
- to identify a portion of the scanned image file having text,
- to select a tool to modify the text in the identified portion within the scanned image file, and
- to modify the portion of the scanned image file using the selected tool, wherein the modified portion is made private by the tool so that the text is not viewable;
- a scan privacy tool library to support the tool to modify the scanned image file as displayed by the display and edit interface and to store the privatized portion on the scan privacy tool;
- and
- a printing device to receive the modified image file from the display and edit interface in order to process the image file including the privatized portion, wherein the text corresponding to the privatized portion is not printable or viewable within the image file.
A scan privacy tool for use to modify a document, the tool comprising:
- an imaging interface to receive an image file of the document and to store the image file in a memory;
- a display and edit interface to receive and to display the image file;
- and
- a scan privacy tool library having a plurality of tools to modify a portion of the image file having text,
- the display and edit interface to receive an instruction to use the at least one tool to modify the image file to make the portion private, the display and edit interface configured
- to select a tool from the plurality of tools, and
- to modify the portion of the scanned image file using the selected tool, wherein the portion is made private by the tool so that the text is not viewable,
- wherein the modified portion is stored by the scan privacy tool library as a modification pattern in the memory.
A method for modifying an image file of a document, the method comprising:
- receiving an image file at a scan privacy tool;
- identifying a portion having text within the image file using a display and edit interface;
- selecting a tool supported by a scan privacy tool library of the scan privacy tool;
- modifying the portion of the image file using the tool of the scan privacy tool to privatize the portion using the tool;
- saving the privatized portion of the image file as a modification pattern paired to the unmodified portion of the image file in a memory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.