Print-n-Link

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.

Related Publications

2019

Towards Cross-Media Information Spaces and Architectures, Beat Signer, Proceedings of RCIS 2019, 13th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, Brussels, Belgium, May 2019

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2017

Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and Cross-Media Information Spaces, Beat Signer, ISBN 978-3-8370-2713-6, Second Edition, August 2017 (first published 2005 as Diss ETH No. 16218)

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2009

A Publishing Infrastructure for Interactive Paper Documents: Supporting Interactions across the Paper-Digital Divide, Nadir Weibel, Diss ETH No. 18514, 2009 (co-supervision together with Prof. Moira C. Norrie).

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2008

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%)

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