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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 13, 1999
Jianchang Mao, San Jose, CA (US);
Carlton Wayne Niblack, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for indexing and searching content in a hardcopy document utilizes a searching assistant computing device ( ) with an index table ( ) stored in memory ( ). The index table ( ) is created in memory by scanning a 2-D barcode from a hardcopy document or alternatively by downloading indexing information from a web page via the Internet ( ). A search engine ( ) in the searching assistant ( ) searches the index table ( ) to locate a data element found in the content of the hardcopy document. The indexing information corresponding to the data element is displayed to a user as part of the search results to indicate the location of the data element in the hardcopy document.