The present invention discloses a system and method to telephonically
access information related with items printed on a physical document,
simply by touching with a finger items marked on the physical document or
on any other physical surface. The system includes a touch foil placed
over (or under) the document, for reading the coordinates of selected
marked items, a telephone set for receiving the coordinates of the items
selected by the user and for dialing to an interactive voice response
(IVR) service used for accessing and retrieving selected hyperlinked
documents from the web through a documents proxy server, for converting
retrieved documents to synthesized speech, and for providing to the user
through the telephone network, the selected documents that have been
converted into speech.