| 摘要 |
A method and apparatus that generates digital equivalents of physical/paper documents while using non-intrusive, invisible identifiers on each such physical document subjected to the digitization process to optimize future, recurrent digital document generation processes is described. The present invention prints a durable, invisible identifier onto a document the first time it is subjected to a scanning process. The usage of such non-intrusive, invisible identifiers on a document preserves its business and aesthetic integrity while enabling the document to be identified for and by other processes. The digital version of the document and the identifier are stored in a digital archive for further processing. When a set of documents including those already identified are subjected to a subsequent digitization process, the present invention reads the invisible identifier and skips the pre-identified documents from the scanning process, while scanning only those that are new.
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