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.
Interactive Paper as a Reading Medium in Digital Libraries,
Moira C. Norrie, Beat Signer and Nadir Weibel,
Proceedings of ECDL 2008, 12th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries,
Aarhus, Denmark, September 2008 (acceptance rate: 29%)
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2006
Print-n-Link: Weaving the Paper Web,
Moira C. Norrie, Beat Signer and Nadir Weibel,
Proceedings of DocEng 2006, ACM Symposium on Document Engineering,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 2006 (acceptance rate: 33%)