Abstract: A document processing system is provided in which a first document processing related device, having a set of document processing related settings or settings, is disposed remotely of a second document processing related device on a network. A browser is used to get an electronic page for the first document processing related device and information regarding a location of the second document processing on the network is written in the electronic page with the browser. The electronic page with the written information is posted to the first document processing related device and a server provides the electronic page with a subset of the set of document processing related settings or settings. The browser then submits the electronic page with the subset of the set of document processing related settings to the second document processing related device for programming the second document processing related device with the subset of the set of document processing related settings.

Abstract: A printing subsystem for use in a network printing system, having a database communicating with a client browser, is provided. The database includes a plurality of data sets and the client browser includes a program with a set of instructions for displaying at least one of the plurality of data sets on a user interface display screen. The printing subsystem is disposed remotely of and communicates with both of the database and the client browser. The printing subsystem includes a marking engine and a copy of the program, the program copy receiving the at least one of the plurality of data sets for placing the same in a displayable format. An interface communicates with the program copy for converting the at least one of the plurality of data sets from the displayable format to a printable format, and a print buffer is employed to store the at least one of the plurality of data sets in the printable format in anticipation of producing a print therefrom.

Abstract: There is provided a document processing system including at least one document reproduction apparatus and managing on-demand output of a document job. The document job is characterized by a set of job attributes with each job attribute relating to a manner in which the document job is to be processed by the document processing system. The document processing system, which further includes a document server for managing conversion of the document job into the on-demand output, includes: a plurality of queues mapped to a plurality of document processing subsystems, each of the plurality of queues including a set of queue attributes characterizing the extent to which each document processing subsystem mapped to one or more of the plurality of queues is capable of processing a job portion delivered to the one or more queues. The document processing system further includes a queue utility communicating with the plurality of queues.

Abstract: A client subsystem is provided for use with a network printing system including a client communicating with one or more of a plurality of print-related devices by way of a network connection. An electronic document is developed at the client and placed into a printable format with a print driver. The electronic document in the printable format includes a set of attributes respectively corresponding with a set of attribute values, the set of attribute values controlling a manner in which the electronic document is to be processed at a selected one of the plurality of print-related devices. The client subsystem includes a document routing system, communicating with the print driver and a spooler, for facilitating transmission of the electronic document in the printable format from the print driver to the spooler.

Abstract: Disclosed is a multimedia database for use in distributed network environments. A query processing module transforms user queries into search transformations that can be used for indexing; an attentional selection module records salient information represented in images by a hierarchy of feature maps, saliency maps and combined saliency maps; a declarative memory comprises active modules that update the representations acquired over time for the same images, as well as across images, to cluster, categorize and organize information extracted from different images by the attentional selection module; and an indexing mechanism utilizes the search transformations from the query processing module to search the declarative memory for an answer to a user query.

Abstract: There is provided a method for a producing prints from a print job with a plurality of electronic pages divided into a first print job segment having a first number of electronic pages and a second print job segment having a second number of electronic pages. The method includes the steps of: a) storing the first print job segment in the electronic precollation memory, wherein the first print job segment is about equal to the electronic page capacity of the electronic precollation memory; b) printing N copies of each electronic page of the first print job segment stored in the electronic precollation memory; c) storing the second print job segment in the electronic precollation memory; and d) printing N copies of each electronic page of the second print job segment stored in the electronic precollation memory.

Abstract: A method of interrupting a job currently in the process of being printed from a print queue of a multifunctional printing system with an interrupt job having its origin in one of a first service or a second service is provided. The job currently in the process of being printed includes a page boundary, a set boundary and a job boundary. Additionally, the first service includes a first input device disposed locally with respect to the multifunctional printing system and communicates with a first memory section having one or more jobs developed with the first input device, while the second service includes a second input device disposed remotely of the multifunctional printing system and communicates with a second memory section having one or more jobs developed with the second input device. The method includes selecting a job from one of a first memory section and the second memory section. The job is designated as an interrupt job and transmitted to the print queue.

Abstract: A neural network based improving the performance of an omni-font classifier by using recognized characters for additional training is presented. The invention applies the outputs of the hidden layer nodes of the neural net as the feature vector. Characters that are recognized with high confidence are used to dynamically train a secondary classifier. After the secondary classifier is trained, it is combined with the original main classifier. The invention can re-adjust the partition or boundary of feature space, based on on-line learning, by utilizing the secondary classifier data to form an alternative partition location. The new partition can be referred to when a character conflict exists during character recognition.

Abstract: A method for automatically configuring a printer in a network is provided. In practice, an unconfigured printer is communicatively coupled to the network and begins transmitting an advertising protocol. In turn, an entry, varying as a function of the advertising protocol is entered into a table. In response to reading the entry, an auto install program creates a set of print related objects and stores them for use with a print service manager. By reference to the objects, the print service manager communicates information to a broker for indicating to a set of network users that print operations can be performed with the previously unconfigured printer.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method for use in a printing system for producing copies or prints in which billing is developed for a customer of the printing system for the produced copies or prints on a basis of a set of accounting information accumulated and stored in an accounting subsystem. The printing system includes an input/output station communicating with the accounting subsystem by way of a network, and the method facilitates the generation of a set of billing/pricing information for transmission to a selected location upon the occurrence of a selected event related to the printing system.

Abstract: A method of locating handwritten words in handwritten text images under a variety of transformations including changes in document orientation, skew, noise, and changes in handwriting style of a single author which avoids a detailed search of the image for locating every word by pre-computing relevant information in a hash table and indexing the table for word localization. Both the hash table construction and indexing can be done as fast operations taking time quadratic in the number of basis points. Generally, the method involves four stages: (1) Pre-processing where features for word localization are extracted; (2) Image hash table construction; (3) Indexing where query word features are used to look up hash table for candidate locations; and (4) Verification, where the query word is projected and registered with the underlying word at the candidate locations. The method has applications in digital libraries, handwriting tokenization, document management and OCR systems.

Abstract: A printing system in which multiple images are positioned on multiple special electronic pages is provided. The printing system includes an interpreter which reads a stream written in a page description language (PDL). Upon reading a first portion of the PDL stream, a position indicator is established to indicate where a first one of the multiple images is to be positioned on a first one of the multiple special electronic pages. In response to reading a second portion of the PDL stream, the position indicator is used to automatically indicate where a second one of the multiple images is to be positioned on a second one of the multiple special electronic pages.

Abstract: A printing system disposed in a local or wide area network in which one of a plurality of queries is transmitted from a client to a server for obtaining a set of information including both a file with static information and a subset of dynamic information is provided. The subset of dynamic information varies as a function of one or more print related characteristics of a document processing system with which the server communicates. The printing system includes a parsing subsystem, communicating with the client for receiving the one of the plurality of queries, the parsing subsystem facilitating the obtaining of the set of information by copying a portion of the file, in response to reading a first instruction, and communicating the copied portion at the server for storage thereat.

Abstract: An improvement for a printing system with a first document job server communicating with a second document job server is provided. As contemplated, a document job is provided to the first document job server and a document processing system communicates with the second document job server. The improvement comprises a job queue communicating with the first document job server for storing the document job, and a first module communicating with the job queue of the first document job sever for retrieving a copy of the document job from the job queue in response to a determination, by the first module, that the document job resides in the job queue. The improvement further includes a second module communicating with both the first module and the document processing system, the second module creating a print ready version, from the copy of the document job, for submission to the document processing system.

Abstract: A printing system with a digital reproduction system communicating with a remote document processing station by way of a print server is provided. The printing system includes a first queue of first jobs to be executed with the digital reproduction system maintained at the print server and a second queue of second jobs to be executed with the digital reproduction system maintained at the digital reproduction system. The printing system further includes a queue process communicating with both the first and second queues for forming a composite queue to reflect an order in which the first and second jobs of the first queue and the second queues are to be executed with the digital reproduction system.

Abstract: A printing system, for merging a scanned image with a merge image to produce a composite image, is provided. The printing system includes a memory for storing the merge image, in the form of a first set of image data, and a decompression device for decompressing the first set of image data. The printing system further includes a scanner, for reading a hard-copy page to generate a second set of image data, and a annotate/merge device, the annotate/merge device electronically merging the decompressed first set of image data with the second set of image data to produce the composite image.