Scanning document to identify raster-image processing (rip)-reusable elements
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorRichard L Hilton
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Abstract
Scanning of a document that is to undergo raster-image processing (RIP) and then be printed is initiated to identify RIP-reusable elements within the document. The scanning of the document to identify the RIP-reusable elements is aborted prior to the scanning of the document having been completed. Responsive to determining that the scanning should be restarted based on a parameter, the scanning of the document to identify the RIP-reusable elements is restarted.
Claims15
A method comprising:
- initiating, by a processor, scanning of a document that is to undergo raster-image processing (RIP) and then be printed, to identify RIP-reusable elements within the document;
- aborting, by the processor, the scanning of the document to identify the RIP-reusable elements, prior to the scanning of the document having been completed;
- and
- responsive to determining that the scanning should be restarted based on a parameter, restarting, by the processor, the scanning of the document to identify the RIP-reusable elements.
A non-transitory computer-readable data storage medium storing program code executable by a processor to perform processing comprising:
- initiating scanning of a document that is to undergoing raster-image processing (RIP) and then be printed, to identify RIP-reusable elements within the document;
- while the document is being scanned, determining, by the processor, whether the scanning of the document should be aborted, by comparing a number of pages of the document that have already been scanned and that contain no RIP-reusable elements against a threshold;
- and
- in response to determining that scanning of the document should be aborted, aborting the scanning of the document,
- wherein the threshold corresponds to a maximum number of pages of a given number of pages that have been scanned that are permitted to contain no RIP-reusable elements without aborting the scanning of the document.
A computing system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to:
- after scanning of a document that is to undergo raster-image processing (RIP) and then be printed to identify RIP-reusable elements within the document has been aborted, initiate scanning of the document to detect a change in content within the document greater than a threshold;
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- restart scanning of the document to identify the RIP-reusable elements at a page of the document at which the change in content greater than the threshold has been detected.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.