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Prof. Dr. Beat Signer
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Department of Computer Science
Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels
(Belgium)
+32 2 629 1239, bsigner@vub.be
Office: PL9.3.60 (Pleinlaan 9)
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Print-n-Link was developed in the Global Information Systems (GlobIS) research group at ETH Zurich. It uses technologies for interactive paper to enhance the reading process by enabling users to access digital information and/or searches for cited documents from a printed version of a publication using a digital pen for interaction. Depending on the user setting and interaction gesture, the system may retrieve metadata about the selected reference and inform the user through an audio channel or directly display the referenced document on the user’s screen. A special virtual printer driver automatically generates links from paper to digital services during the printing process based on an analysis of PDF documents, enabling a one-step publishing of the interactive paper publication from any PDF source document. In this way, Print-n-Link dynamically builds a web that spans the paper and digital document spaces.
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Related Publications

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  • 2006

  • thumb Print-n-Link: Weaving the Paper Web, , and , Proceedings of DocEng 2006, ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 2006 (acceptance rate: 33%)
    Available:  document ACM digital library presentation
  • 2005