System and method of billing for printing service costs by...

Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – For cost/price

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C705S007350, C358S001150, C358S001900, C358S003020, C358S003090

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08051016

ABSTRACT:
A method of billing for printing service costs is presented. The method entails examining the content of a page and applying a cost function to approximate the cost of printing the page. Examining the content of the page may include detecting at least one object in the page and determining an approximate area of coverage of the detected object within the at least one object in the page. The cost function can approximate the cost of printing the page using the detected object and the determined approximate area of coverage of the detected object.

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