Providing shortened url and information related contents corresponding to original url

An electronic apparatus comprising:

• an input interface to receive a document including location information;
• a communication interface to communicate with an external apparatus;
• and
• a processor to:
• obtain a text from the document,
• identify the location information from the obtained text,
• transmit an original uniform resource locator (URL) corresponding to the identified location information to an external apparatus via the communication interface,
• receive a shortened URL corresponding to the original URL from the external apparatus,
• generate an optical recognition code corresponding to the received shortened URL,
• obtain information related to a content provided from the original URL from the external apparatus based on the original URL,
• change the document based on the shortened URL, the optical recognition code, and the information related to the content provided from the original URL, and
• generate the changed document as PDL data.

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recording a program for performing a uniform resource locator (URL) information providing method, the recording medium comprising:

• instructions to obtain a text from a document including location information;
• instructions to identify the location information from the obtained text;
• instructions to transmit an original URL to an external apparatus based on the identified location information and receive a shortened URL corresponding to the original URL from the external apparatus;
• instructions to generate an optical recognition code corresponding to the received shortened URL;
• instructions to obtain information related to a content provided from the original URL based on the original URL;
• instructions to change the document based on the shortened URL, the optical recognition code, and the information related to the content provided from the original URL;
• and
• instructions to generate the changed document as PDL data.