Print-n-Link

Print-n-Link 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.

Related Publications

2009

Nadir Weibel, A Publishing Infrastructure for Interactive Paper Documents: Supporting Interactions across the Paper-Digital Divide, Dissertation, ETH No. 18514, Zurich, Switzerland, 2009
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2008

Moira C. Norrie, Beat Signer and Nadir Weibel, Interactive Paper as a Reading Medium in Digital Libraries, Proceedings of ECDL 2008, 12th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Aarhus, Denmark, September 2008
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Beat Signer, Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and Cross-Media Information Spaces, ISBN 978-3-8370-2713-6, Hardcover, 276 Pages, May 2008 (first published 2006 as Diss ETH No. 16218)
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2006

Beat Signer, Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and Cross-Media Information Spaces, Dissertation, ETH No. 16218, Zurich, Switzerland, 2006
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Moira C. Norrie, Beat Signer and Nadir Weibel, Print-n-Link: Weaving the Paper Web, In Proceedings of DocEng 2006, ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 2006
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