Methods and Systems for Automatically Detecting the Source of the Content of a Scanned Document

Methods, systems and computer-readable storage media for scanning a document to detect a source of the document. The document can be scanned to obtain content from the document. An automatic search of an electronic network can be then performed to determine if there is an exact match or a partial match between the content of the document and the results of search automatic search. If an exact match or a partial match is generated as a result of automatically searching the electronic network, a user can be presented with various selection options via a GUI for retrieving, viewing and printing search results of the automatic search.