Abstract: Embodiments herein add tab information to a tab template. The tab template is then printed and inserted between pages of a printed document by the user. Then this tab template-containing document can be scanned in a single pass to identify the location of the tab template within the pages of the tab template-containing document. Thus, when the scanned document is processed through a printing device, a tabbed page is inserted at the location of the tab template in printed copies of the tab template-containing document.

Abstract: A copier includes an input scanner for recording images from an input sheet moving in an input process direction, yielding image data, and a print engine for printing an image based on the image data on an output sheet moving in an output process direction. The input sheet is fed through the input scanner with an image for a tab near a lead edge thereof. An output sheet having a tab relative to the print engine is fed so the tab is on a trail edge thereof. An image formed by the output sheet is displaced toward the trail edge of the output sheet by a predetermined length.