Appeal No. 97-0171
Application No. 08/187,290
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to an apparatus for processing information
contained in an original document. The document contains two separate portions. The first
portion contains information and the second portion contains a graphical symbol which is
data encoded to represent the information contained in the first portion of the document.
The apparatus contains an editing system which allows the original decoded information to
be modified and a graphical symbol representing the modified information is printed with
the modified information. An understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading
of exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced below.
1. Apparatus for processing information, from an original document
containing document information on a first portion of the original document
and a graphic symbol on a second portion of the original document
physically separated from the first document portion, the graphical symbol
encoding data representing the original document information, said
apparatus comprising, in combination:
a scanner/decoder for scanning the symbol to produce symbol data;
a translator for translating the symbol data to document information data;
means for converting the document information data into humanly intelligible
information different in form from the document information;
an editing system connected to receive the document information data from
the translator and produce edited document information data;
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