Automatic document handling system
US5490217A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 5, 1993 |
| Grant date | Feb 6, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 5, 2013 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/93
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A system and method for the filing, retrieving, verifying, translating, exchanging and updating documents by scanning said documents into and storing said documents on a programmed computer system, which system generates or assigns to each document handled a two-dimensionable machine readable image code which contains content and identifying information about the document, as well as information about the document format, and processing instructions. In addition the machine readable image code may contain information concerning textural and/or pictorial content of the document, bio-metric information and the like.
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