A system, method and program product for presenting and selecting an
active region of a physical document page. A transparent
electro-luminescent tablet or touch sensitive plate positioned over the
physical document page is coupled and identified to the workstation. The
workstation stores information defining an active region for the physical
document page and a hyperlink to a web page. The workstation directs the
tablet or plate to display the active region over the physical document
page. A user touches a point within the active region. In response, the
tablet or plate conveys the touch point to the workstation which displays
on a computer screen the hyperlink. The active region can be identified
by an outline that encompasses the active region and can encompass
another such active region, so that touching a point within the inner
active region elicits display of hyperlinks or documents related to both
active regions.