Techniques and systems are described for real time streamable page generation from a digital document. A page generator module generates individually streamable pages from a digital document in which metadata is written at a beginning of the streamable pages that is usable to control rendering of the page. Therefore, upon receipt of the streamable page by a rendering engine of a receiver device (e.g., a printer), the metadata is usable to render the objects included in the streamable page as received. The streamable pages are renderable by a receiver device as individual pages and/or portions of the pages are received.

An electronic device is provided. The electronic includes a memory storing a digital catalog. The electronic device also includes at least one processor coupled to the memory. The at least one processor is configured to determine whether a printer is associated with the digital catalog. The at least one processor is also configured to receive a request for an item or part number in the digital catalog. The at least one processor is further configured to transmit a barcode associated with the requested item or part number to the printer. In addition, the at least one processor is configured to transmit a print request to the printer to print the barcode.

The information display system includes a printing apparatus and a display terminal. The display terminal's control unit includes a visual recognition determination unit, an image-data extraction unit, a link status determination unit, a link destination information acquisition unit, and a display control unit. The link status determination unit determines whether a page of printed matter visually recognized by a user through lenses contains a representation associated with link destination information. If the link status determination unit determines the presence of the representation associated with the link destination information, the link destination information acquisition unit acquires the link destination information based on the image data extracted by the image-data extraction unit. The display control unit performs control operations to display on the lenses the link destination information acquired by the link destination information acquisition unit so that the user can visually recognize the link destination information.

An information processing apparatus to connect with a printer and a display, includes: a processor to control the printer to print one or more images that are obtained to output one or more printed images, in response to a print request received from a first user; and control the display to display the one or more images that have been printed with the printer, the images being displayed to one or more users other than the first user.

An image printing apparatus includes a control section configured to receive original image data, analyze the original image data to acquire address information included in the original image data, and generate a two-dimensional code corresponding to the acquired address information. A printer is then controlled to print the generated two-dimensional code and the original image data.

An image processing apparatus performs: acquiring instruction data including notification data and location information indicative of a location of next instruction data; controlling at least one of a display and an image processor to perform an operation instructed by the instruction data acquired most recently; when controlling the at least one of the display and the image processor, connecting a first communication interface with a mobile terminal within a particular distance range from the image processing apparatus, in accordance with a near-field wireless communication protocol; when controlling, transmitting the notification data extracted from the instruction data acquired most recently, to the mobile terminal through the first communication interface, the notification data being data for specifying an operation to be performed by the mobile terminal; and acquiring the next instruction data based on the location information extracted from the instruction data acquired most recently.

An object of the present invention is to produce a display in accordance with the type of additional information extracted from captured image data. The present invention is an image processing method including: a selection step of selecting a type of first processing-target information that is embedded in a printing-target image; an embedment step of embedding the first information and second information indicating a type selected at the selection step in the printing-target image; a printing control step of causing a printing apparatus to print the printing-target image in which the first information and the second information are embedded; an acquisition step of acquiring captured image data obtained by capturing printed matter; an extraction step of extracting the first information and the second information based on captured image data; and a processing step of processing the first processing-target information extracted at the extraction step by different processing methods in accordance with the second information.

Content management for virtual tours including exposing, within a virtual tour, a hotspot, the hotspot having an associated a hyperlink to a third-party content management provider and access code for accessing content from third-party content management provider; receiving an invocation of the hotspot; invoking the hyperlink associated with the hotspot; invoking the access code for accessing content from third-party content management provider; receiving, from the third-party content management provider, content; and displaying the received content within the virtual tour.

A method, system and computer program product for facilitating access to a resource represented in an image at a later time. A screen capture of an image displayed on a computing device is implemented. Metadata, including the resource location, resource navigation and positional metadata, regarding the source data of the screen capture image is generated. The generated metadata is then embedded into the screen capture image. The screen capture image with the embedded metadata is then transmitted to a different user. By embedding the metadata into the screen capture image, the user receiving the screen capture image will be able to reproduce the state of the source environment when the image was captured using the embedded metadata thereby opening the resource represented in the image.

A method, system and computer program product for facilitating access to a resource represented in an image at a later time. A screen capture of an image displayed on a computing device is implemented. Metadata, including the resource location, resource navigation and positional metadata, regarding the source data of the screen capture image is generated. The generated metadata is then embedded into the screen capture image. The screen capture image with the embedded metadata is then transmitted to a different user. By embedding the metadata into the screen capture image, the user receiving the screen capture image will be able to reproduce the state of the source environment when the image was captured using the embedded metadata thereby opening the resource represented in the image.