1. A computer-implemented method for providing a mixed media environment for interacting with documents of a first media type and a second media type, the method comprising: acquiring a representation of a portion of a printed document comprising geographical location information by receiving a captured image of the portion of the printed document via a capture device; indexing the acquired representation of the portion of the printed document for identification of a corresponding mixed media reality document, wherein the corresponding mixed media reality document comprising a matching electronic representation of the printed document, wherein indexing the acquired representation includes specifying an x-y location of at least one of a character, a word and an image from the acquired representation within the printed document; parsing the representation of the portion of the printed document to identify a first geographic location from the geographical location information; identifying a second geographic location of the capture device; and performing an action specified by the mixed media reality document based on the first and second geographic locations, wherein specifying the x-y location of the acquired representation includes one selected from the group of: specifying x-y locations of characters of a printed document, specifying x-y locations of words of the printed document, specifying x-y locations of an image or a portion of an image in a printed document, performing an OCR operation and specifying x-y locations of characters or words, and performing feature extraction and specifying x-y locations of characters or words.
1. A computer-implemented method for providing a mixed media environment for interacting with documents of a first media type and a second media type, the method comprising: acquiring a representation of a portion of a printed document comprising geographical location information by receiving a captured image of the portion of the printed document via a capture device; indexing the acquired representation of the portion of the printed document for identification of a corresponding mixed media reality document, wherein the corresponding mixed media reality document comprising a matching electronic representation of the printed document, wherein indexing the acquired representation includes specifying an x-y location of at least one of a character, a word and an image from the acquired representation within the printed document; parsing the representation of the portion of the printed document to identify a first geographic location from the geographical location information; identifying a second geographic location of the capture device; and performing an action specified by the mixed media reality document based on the first and second geographic locations, wherein specifying the x-y location of the acquired representation includes one selected from the group of: specifying x-y locations of characters of a printed document, specifying x-y locations of words of the printed document, specifying x-y locations of an image or a portion of an image in a printed document, performing an OCR operation and specifying x-y locations of characters or words, and performing feature extraction and specifying x-y locations of characters or words. 10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising storing the acquired representation and results of the indexing with the mixed media reality document.