5. A scanner for generating an electronic representation of a hardcopy document, said scanner comprising: a scanner bed; a user interface for inputting material to be added to a scanned document comprising an electronic touch-sensitive screen for displaying an image of said scanned document and accepting said user input material relative to said displayed image to be added to said scanned document; and a processor for receiving an electronic representation of a hardcopy document from said scanner bed and said material to be added to a scanned document from said user interface; and wherein said processor adds said material from said user interface to said electronic representation of the hardcopy document to produce an annotated electronic document.
10. The scanner of claim 5 , further comprising a menu displayed on said user interface from which a user selects pre-established messages or graphics to be added to said scanned document.