1. a method of selectively acquiring one or more images from a hardcopy document comprising: demarking boundaries on one or more hardcopy pages using a writing instrument to differentiate a selected image portion from a non-selected image portion; scanning the one or more demarked hardcopy pages with an image acquisition device; acquiring one or more images from the selected image portion; and processing the acquired one or more images from the selected image portion to differentiate them from the non-selected image portion.