Joined front end and back end document processing
AssigneeInfoPrint Solutions Company LLC
InventorsScott D. Mastie, Joan L. Mitchell
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Abstract
Systems, methods and program products for joining front-end processing with back-end processing of printed documents. In particular, the invention calls for collecting print data usable for printing a document (i.e., by persistently saving data used to print a document), imaging the document after use, and processing the document using the print data and image data together.
Claims13
A method of processing a document comprising:
- collecting electronic print data usable for printing the document;
- imaging the document after the document is used to create image data;
- and
- processing the document, by:
- retrieving the print data;
- comparing the print data to the image data;
- authenticating the document if there is a match between the print data and the image data;
- and
- flagging the document as being altered if there is not a match between the print data and the image data.
A system for document processing comprising:
- a back-end document processing system to process a document after the document is used including:
- a first access module to access electronic print data generated by a front-end document generating system that generated the print data based on document generation data;
- an imager for imaging the document after the document has been used;
- and
- a processing application to compare the print data to the image data, authenticate the document if there is a match between the print data and the image data and flag the document as being altered if there is not a match between the print data and the image data.
A computer program product comprising a computer readable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein for processing a document, the program product comprising:
- program code to generate image data from imaging of the document after the document is used;
- program code to access electronic print data generated by a front-end document generating system that generates print data usable for printing the document based on document generation data;
- and
- program code to process the document by:
- retrieving the print data;
- comparing the print data to the image data;
- and
- authenticating the document if there is a match between the print data and the image data;
- and
- flagging the document as being altered if there is not a match between the print data and the image data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.