The Callpaper Concept: Turning Paper into Computer Terminals

  • Authors:
  • Stefan Jaeger;Masaki Nakagawa

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDAR '03 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Despite all the attempts of modern information technologyto supplant paper by sophisticated electronic devices,paper is still omnipresent in virtually any office environment.We have learned over the last decade that paper isan indispensable part of our daily work and that even thelatest computers are not able to mimic its functionality. Today,paper and computer are coexisting side by side withoutinteracting with each other, both having their specificadvantages. This paper presents a concept for bridging thegap between computer and paper by combining the advantagesof both electronic and paper world. The implementationdescribed in this paper augments standard paper withfeatures of modern information technology. Moreover, it allowsinterfacing computers using pen and paper.