Method of monitoring print data for text associated with a hyperlink

A method comprising:

• receiving optical scan data from an optical input device, wherein the optical scan data corresponds to a printed object including machine-readable steganographic indicia provided thereon and the printed object includes one or more electronically actuable hyperlinks, the machine-readable steganographic indicia conveying information corresponding to the one or more electronically actuable hyperlinks;
• analyzing the optical scan data to recover the machine-readable steganographic indicia;
• and
• providing information corresponding to the one or more electronically actuable hyperlinks included in the printed object.

A method of accessing a resource comprising:

• receiving data corresponding to a printed object, the printed object including both text and background, at least the background having information indicative of least one of a network address and a file storage address associated with the resource steganographically embedded therein;
• decoding the information from the data;
• and
• accessing the resource using the information.

A method of accessing a resource comprising steps of:

• receiving data from an application program, the data corresponding to an object to be printed, the data including text and background;
• steganographically embedding into a region of the background having substantially non-uniform pixel values certain information indicative of at least one of a network address and a file storage address associated with the resource;
• and
• printing the object using the data into which said information has been steganographically embedded.