摘要 |
<p><P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an enhanced system and method for selectively acquiring images from a hardcopy document. <P>SOLUTION: The method includes: a step 212 of demarking boundaries on one or more hardcopy pages using a writing instrument and scanning one or more hardcopy pages in which a non-selected image portion is differentiated from a selected image portion, from the selected image portion with an image acquisition device; a step 214 of acquiring one or more images form the selected image portion; and steps 218, 220 of processing the one or more images acquired from the selected image portion to differentiate the selected image portion from the non-selected image portion. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT</p> |