Method, system and computer program for the generation of an electronic document from scanned image data

A computer readable medium comprising a computer program for screen-aided generation of an electronic document from rasterized image data and which creates print data for a printer, said computer program performing the steps of:

• filing the rasterized page image data in an electronic storage medium of a computer;
• storing a first group of n page rasterized image data stored page-by-page in said storage and storing a second group of m overlay rasterized image data in a relationship of 1:
• n or m:1 associated such that one page of said first group is associated with at least one overlay of said second group or one overlay of said second group is associated with at least one page of said first group, and wherein n and m are respective whole numbers greater than two;
• displaying in a first display screen region of a basic processing window symbols of the first group for each page in an ordered structure;
• simultaneously displaying in a second display screen region of the same basic processing window but separate from the first region image data of at least one page of the first group selected in the first display screen region in detail;
• in the first display screen region selecting with a selection device one of the symbols corresponding to one of the pages displayed in the first display screen region and displaying a supplemental thumb nail display window of less detail for that selected symbol, said selection being independent of and in addition to the selected page being shown in detail in the second display screen region;
• for each displayed symbol representing a corresponding page, also in said first display screen region showing with an overlay symbol if an overlay is to be associated and combined with the page represented by the displayed symbol;
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• said computer program further comprising an editor computer program which generates said electronic document as said print data, said editor computer program combining said rasterized image data with said overlay rasterized image data.

A print system for screen-aided generation of an electronic document from rasterized image data, comprising:

• an application computer with a display, said application computer creating print data for a printer;
• an electronic storage associated with the computer;
• said rasterized page image data being filed in said electronic storage;
• said application computer having a computer program providing a first group of n page rasterized image data stored page-by-page and a second group of m overlay rasterized image data in a relationship of 1:n or m:1 associated such that one page of said first group is associated with at least one overlay of said second group or one overlay of said second group is associated with at least one page of said first group, and wherein n and m are respective whole numbers greater than two;
• said computer program causing in a first display screen region of a basic processing window of said display a display of symbols of the first group for each page in an ordered structure, and in a second display screen region simultaneously displaying in the same basic processing window but separate from the first region of the display causing a display of image data of at least one page of the first group selected in the first display screen region in detail;
• in the first display screen region selecting with a selection device one of the symbols corresponding to one of the pages displayed in the first display screen region and displaying a supplemental thumb nail display window of less detail for that selected symbol, said selection being independent of and in addition to the selected page being shown in detail in the second display screen region;
• for each displayed symbol representing a corresponding page, also in said first display screen region showing with an overlay symbol if an overlay is to be associated and combined with the page represented by the displayed symbol;
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• said application computer program further comprising an editor computer program which generates said electronic document as said print data by combining said page rasterized image data with said overlay rasterized image data.