Communicating electronic mail

摘要

Proposed is the use of an email-stamp for representing an email address. By comprising information about one or more email addresses of a recipient, an email stamp may be processed in accordance with an optical recognition process so as to identify the email address of the recipient and enable an email to be automatically sent to the recipient.

主权项

1. A method for sending a document to an email address of a recipient, the method comprising:
processing an electronic representation of the document in accordance with an optical recognition process so as to detect the presence of an email stamp in the electronic representation of the document; determining the email address represented by the detected email stamp; providing the determined email address to an email communication unit so as to instruct the email communication unit where to send an email; in which the email stamp comprises an image associated electronically with a number of email addresses of the recipient.