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US 6,208,436 B1Granted
Use of a header page to provide scan control information for a scan
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Company
InventorRandy Mark Cunningham
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Abstract
A document is optically scanned. A header page of the document is scanned and scan control information is extracted from the header page. The remaining pages of the document are then scanned into an image file. Upon completion of the scan, the image file is sent to a destination specified by the scan control information.
Claims15
A scanner comprising:
- recognition hardware for scanning and extracting scan control information from a header page of a scan document, wherein the scan control information includes a page count which indicates a number of pages in the document;
- and,
- optical scanning hardware for scanning remaining pages of the document into an image file;
- wherein the recognition hardware also is for recognizing a trailer page when the scan control information specifies that a trailer page is present, the scanner, upon detecting the trailer page, checking to see if a number of pages scanned for the document corresponds with the page count and if the number of pages scanned for the document does not correspond with the page count, the scanner sending an error message to the destination computing system.
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A method for scanning a document comprising:
- (a) scanning in a header page of the document and extracting scan control information from the header page, wherein the scan control information includes a page count that indicates a number of pages in the document;
- (b) scanning remaining pages of the document into an image file, including the following substep:
- (b.1) when the scan control information specifies that a trailer page is present, performing the following substeps:
- (b.1.1) upon detecting the trailer page, checking to see if a number of pages scanned for the document corresponds with the page count, and
- (b.1.2) when in substep (b.1.1) the number of pages scanned for the document does not correspond with the page count, generating an error message;
- and,
- (c) processing the image file in accordance with instructions embodied in the scan control information.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.