{"id":217459,"date":"2025-07-09T10:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/a-system-for-embedding-invisible-digital-information-in-printed-documents"},"modified":"2025-07-09T10:14:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:14:14","slug":"a-system-for-embedding-invisible-digital-information-in-printed-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/a-system-for-embedding-invisible-digital-information-in-printed-documents","title":{"rendered":"A system for embedding invisible digital information in printed documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VskRydR5cIA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Adobe Research have presented Imprinto, a system for embedding invisible digital information in printed documents using infrared ink and a special camera. This technology introduces a new generation of hybrid interfaces between paper and augmented reality.<\/p>\n<p>The tool, recently presented at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (<a href=\"https:\/\/chi2025.acm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">CHI 2025<\/a>) held in Yokohama, Japan, has been developed with the aim of enabling advanced interaction with physical documents, without altering their visual appearance. The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3706598.3713286\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImprinto uses an infrared ink that is invisible to the human eye but detectable by means of a near-infrared camera, such as those that can be integrated into <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/mobile+devices\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">mobile devices<\/a> by simply modifying the photographic sensor,\u201d explains one of the driving forces behind the project, Ra\u00fal Garc\u00eda Mart\u00edn, from UC3M\u2019s Department of Electronic Technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Adobe Research have presented Imprinto, a system for embedding invisible digital information in printed documents using infrared ink and a special camera. This technology introduces a new generation of hybrid interfaces between paper and augmented reality. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}