JP2005309533A - Document editing device, document vision method, and program therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information processor having a printing function suitable for an individual purpose such as for elaboration, for exhibition to another person, or for grasping the whole configuration, in addition to printing of a document for a fair copy. <P>SOLUTION: This document editing device 1 has: a condition acquisition means 120 for acquiring a condition for identifying a specific portion of an electronic document 110; a portion extraction means 130 for extracting the corresponding portion from the electronic document 110 according to the condition inputted by the condition acquisition means 120; and a print processing means 140 for processing the electronic document such that the portion is identified on the basis of the portion extracted by the portion extraction means 130, and outputting it as print data. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a document editing apparatus having a printing function for facilitating editing of a document when editing the document.

  A current editor or word processor (both of them are hereinafter simply referred to as “a word processor”) has a printing function for outputting the edited document on paper. One of the features of this printing function is that it outputs exactly the same things that can be seen on the display. This is based on the idea of “WYSIWYG” that what is visible on the display is printed and what is obtained by printing is also displayed on the display.

  Originally, the display and paper are different media. As for the difference between paper and display, paper has advantages such as “excellent listability”, “friendly to eyes”, “read while sleeping”, “can write”, “pass to people”, etc. Yes. On the other hand, the display has an advantage that it is easy to search and edit characters.

  As a technique for providing a printing function that draws out the mutual advantages, for example, Patent Document 1 discloses a distribution list prepared in advance when a document is printed in a plurality of distribution destinations and a required number of copies are printed. Print each distribution destination attached to each document. This saves the trouble of filling in after printing and eliminates the mistake in specifying the number of copies to print because only the number of copies in the list is printed.

  In Patent Document 2, characters such as “secret” and “private secret” are printed in a designated color at the time of printing, thereby eliminating the need for a seal after printing. Furthermore, Patent Document 3 makes it easy to identify the changed portion by coloring the changed portion of the document and printing it. Patent Document 4 proposes to change the font size when printing. This makes it possible to print a large font so that it is easy to read without changing the original document when printing a file or mail received by another person.

JP-A-8-241309 JP-A-9-86015 JP-A-9-101957 JP 2000-311075 A

  However, the conventional printing function has the following problems. Although the printing function assumes printing of a document as a final finished product, in practice, a document for a clean copy is often printed only once after the document is completed. In many cases, a large number of documents are printed at the previous stage for reviewing or showing to others. In other words, the conventional printing function does not assume printing for the purpose of document review or editing, and thus has the following problems. First, the length of a sentence cannot be intuitively grasped in a printed document. Second, it is difficult to find a specific word to be noticed in a printed document. Third, it is difficult to find important words. Fourth, when calibrating on paper, there is not enough space for writing.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-described conventional problems, and is intended not only for the printing of a document for a clean copy, but also for the individual purpose of grasping the entire configuration to show to others for the sake of selection. An object is to provide an information processing apparatus having an appropriate printing function, an information processing program, and a printing method in the apparatus.
A further object of the present invention is to provide an information processing apparatus that can give a specific identification to a printed document or change the attributes of the document without affecting the original document. To do.
Furthermore, an object of the present invention is to provide an information processing apparatus having printing performance specialized for media so as to maximize the advantages of each media of paper and display.

  An information processing apparatus having a document editing function according to the present invention is input by a document data holding unit that holds document data, a condition input unit that inputs a condition for identifying a specific part of the document, and a condition input unit. Based on the specific part extracting means for extracting the specific part from the document data according to the specified conditions, the document data is processed so that the specific part is identified based on the specific part extracted by the specific part extracting means, and this is used as print data Print processing means for outputting. As a result, it is possible to print a document according to the purpose of review or editing.

  Here, the document data is not limited to text, and may include data such as figures and tables. The specific part of the document is preferably text, but is not necessarily limited to this, and may include figures, tables, and the like. Furthermore, the identification includes, for example, highlight, bold, italic, coloring, underline, shading, etc. for a specific part, and is displayed or emphasized so that it is conspicuous when compared with other document parts. Such a display is included.

  The specific part may include at least one of a punctuation mark, a paragraph start, a comma, or a period as a sentence break. Since punctuation marks, commas, and periods are identified and displayed, the length of phrases, sentences, paragraphs, etc. can be intuitively grasped on paper. It is also possible to devise such as changing the color between the punctuation mark and the reading mark, or changing the color between the comma and the period.

  The specific portion may include a specific character string. In order to identify a specific character string on paper, a character string corresponding to the character string input by the condition input means is searched. For example, it is possible to display punctuation marks conspicuously by inputting conditions such as punctuation marks (,) and punctuation marks (.) As character strings. This makes it possible to understand sentence breaks at a glance, and is useful for shortening sentences that have too long punctuation intervals.

  Alternatively, “document” is conditionally input as a character string, a character string corresponding to this is searched, and when there is a matching character string, it is highlighted and printed. Searching for a specific character string, for example, easily confirms on paper where you defined the term "document" and in what context you use it. be able to. More specifically, it is useful to confirm the situation that the term is not used before defining the term “document”. Finding a specific word on paper is hard, but it's easy on a computer. By highlighting specific words at the time of printing, a medium having both advantages can be obtained.

  Furthermore, the character string searched for is not limited to a single character string. A plurality of character strings may be highlighted at the same time, or may be color-coded for each character string. For example, it can be used when checking whether or not these terms are used correctly in a document in which similar words “document” and “document” are used properly.

  The specific part includes a definition part and a reference part of a specific word, and the print processing means can process the document data so that the definition part and the reference part are identified in different forms. In a document, a word may be used as a definition part by the expression “...” And may be used as a reference part elsewhere. The extraction of the word definition part and the reference part preferably uses natural language processing techniques. Alternatively, if it is embedded as a tag, it may be used. For identification, for example, the definition portion can be color-coded such as red and the reference portion is blue, and a display that is easier to see can be provided.

  The specific portion may include at least one specific part of speech, verb, or object. For example, it is convenient in situations where the usage of a verb is checked by highlighting the verb. In addition, by highlighting the subject, it is easy to check whether there is a sentence without the subject or what the subject of the verb is.

  The specific portion may include a character having a specific character type. For example, it is possible to highlight the kanji and intuitively grasp the kanji content rate in the entire sentence. This is because in general, when the number of Chinese characters increases, a hard impression may be given to a document.

  The specific portion may include a character composed of a specific font. By making the character string of a specific font (font type, size, whether italic or not, bold, etc.) print conspicuously, you will notice unintentional mixing of fonts or notice that you forgot to use italic It becomes possible

  The specific part may include a character string or a sentence including a spelling error or a grammatical error. Some current word processors have an additional function for checking spelling errors and grammatical errors. However, to correct spelling errors and grammatical errors correctly, it is necessary to read before and after. There is also a desire to perform such work on paper, and this can be dealt with.

  The specific part may include a character string of a specific style. Mixing styles can be prevented. For example, it is possible to check a mixture of “I” tone text and “I” tone text.

  Preferably, the information processing apparatus further includes a term dictionary storing a plurality of words, and the specific part extraction unit determines whether the extracted specific part matches a word included in the term dictionary, and prints The processing means processes the document data according to the determination result. Various forms can be considered as the term dictionary. By creating a database of technical terms, technical terms in the document can be highlighted. In addition, by creating a database of words that are important to the user, the words in the document can be highlighted.

  Furthermore, an information processing apparatus having a document editing function according to the present invention includes a document data holding unit that holds document data, a condition input unit that inputs printing conditions, and an original document according to the conditions input by the condition input unit. And print processing means for processing the document data so as to increase the line spacing of the text without changing the data, and outputting the processed data as print data. By enabling printing that increases the line spacing, the space for writing and editing is increased, which is particularly convenient for people to check. In this case, since the original document data is not altered, it is unnecessary for the user to restore the original document data, and complexity can be avoided.

  Furthermore, an information processing apparatus having a document editing function according to the present invention includes a document data holding unit that holds document data, a condition input unit that inputs printing conditions, and an original that is in accordance with the conditions input by the condition input unit. And print processing means for processing the document data so that the margin of the text can be changed without changing the document data, and outputting the processed data as print data. Increasing the margin such as the document margin increases the writing space, which is effective for checking during editing and editing.

  Furthermore, an information processing apparatus having a document editing function according to the present invention includes a document data holding unit that holds document data, a condition input unit that inputs printing conditions, and the document data according to the conditions input by the condition input unit. A sentence dividing means for dividing the included sentence, a number assigning means for assigning a number to the constituent parts of each sentence divided by the sentence dividing means, and a constituent part of each sentence based on the number assigned by the number assigning means It has print processing means for processing document data so as to be numbered and outputting it as print data.

  Thereby, numbers can be inserted into sentences and paragraphs on printed paper. For this reason, it becomes easy to point a specific part among several people, or to truncate a sentence. In conventional document editing, sentences and paragraphs can be numbered, but these all process an original document. The present invention provides a function of assigning numbers without processing original document data. Adding numbers to the original document makes it difficult to read the document. In addition, there is a possibility that an error (duplicate or omitted) may occur in the number assignment. Therefore, there may be a function for designating whether or not to assign a number to a paragraph at the time of printing.

  The sentence dividing means may use characters as a unit of division. Numbers are assigned to all characters, and the numbers are also written side by side with the text. As a result, it is possible to easily grasp how much is deleted by deleting a part such as when the sentence is truncated. This is effective in creating a sentence with a predetermined number of characters.

  The sentence dividing means may use a sentence as a unit of division or a paragraph as a unit of division.

  Furthermore, an information processing apparatus having a document editing function according to the present invention includes a document data holding unit that holds document data, a display unit that displays a print preview screen when printing document data, and a character on the preview screen. And drawing means for drawing drawing data such as graphics, and print processing means for processing the document data so that the display of the print preview screen is printed and outputting the processed document data as print data. As a result, before printing a large amount of documents, it is possible to identify necessary items, sentences, drawings, and the like to be alerted. Marking on each paper after printing a large amount of documents is cumbersome, but this can be avoided.

  An information processing program having a document editing function according to the present invention is input by a document data holding unit that holds document data, a condition input unit that inputs a condition for identifying a specific part of the document, and a condition input unit. Specific part extraction means for extracting a specific part from document data according to the specified conditions, and processing the document data so that the specific part is identified based on the specific part extracted by the specific part extraction means, and outputting this as print data Printing processing means.

  Furthermore, the printing method in the information processing apparatus having the document editing function according to the present invention includes a step of holding document data, a step of inputting a condition for identifying a specific part of the document, and a condition input by the condition input unit And extracting the specific part from the document data, processing the document data so that the specific part is identified based on the extracted specific part, and outputting the print data as print data.

  According to the information processing apparatus of the present invention, it is possible to print a document suitable for review and editing without changing the edited original document data in accordance with the conditions from the user.

  The document editing apparatus according to the present invention is preferably implemented in an electronic apparatus such as a personal computer. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a document editing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. The document editing apparatus 1 includes an input device 10 that inputs data via a keyboard, a mouse, and the like, a display control unit 20 that performs display control of the display 22, an output device 30 that controls printing of the printer 32, edited document data, It includes a data memory 40 that stores arithmetic processing results and the like, a program memory 50, a central processing unit 60, and a bus 70 that connects each unit.

  Data memory 40 preferably includes a mass storage device such as a hard disk and a main memory. The program memory 50 stores various program data, and includes, for example, a document editing program 52 for executing a word processor function, a print processing program 54 for printing the edited document data, and the like. The central processing unit 60 controls each unit according to the program in the program memory 50 and executes a desired function.

  The document editing apparatus 1 according to the present embodiment makes the purpose of printing (cutting down the number of characters, checking the usage of words, and showing it to a person by making things that are invisible or difficult to notice on paper stand out during printing. Etc.) is presented. Specifically, the following printing is performed. The effect will also be described.

(1) On paper, print with punctuation marks prominently. For example, processing such as highlighting, coloring, and underlining is performed. Thereby, the length of sentences, paragraphs, etc. on paper can be grasped intuitively.

(2) A specific word (for example, one that plays an important role in the document) is printed conspicuously. You can easily find out on a paper where a specific word is defined and in what context.

(3) A definition part and a reference part of a specific word are specified, and the definition part and the reference part are color-coded and printed. When cut and paste editing is performed, the reference part may be written before the definition part. This is convenient when performing such a check. For example, natural language processing technology is used to specify the definition part and the reference part.

(4) A word with a specific part of speech (for example, subject, predicate, object, etc.) is printed conspicuously. This is useful when you want to check the usage of verbs on paper or when you want to check sentences without a subject.

(5) Use the term dictionary and print the technical terms and terms in the committee so that they stand out. The position where a specific technical term is used can be easily recognized.

(6) A character string of a specific font (font type, size, whether italic, bold, etc.) is printed conspicuously. As a result, it becomes possible to notice that an unintended font is mixed or to forget to use italics.

(7) Print with the spot detected by the spell check or grammar check conspicuous. As a result, it is possible to respond to a request to perform the revision on paper.

(8) Print with double spaces between lines. Or print with a space to the right of the document. When requesting a person to push, it becomes possible to write in an empty space.

(9) Insert a number into a sentence or paragraph and print it, as in the Bible. This makes it easy to specify a specific location among a plurality of people.

(10) The total number of characters is printed together with the character string. Thereby, when truncating the number of characters, it becomes possible to easily grasp what can be trimmed and how many characters can be trimmed.

  Paper has the advantage that it is easy to carry and has a high level of listing. However, when reading a document on paper (especially if it is a sentence you wrote, and you have read it many times), just because you know the content, your concentration may be interrupted. I sometimes do. And they often overlook mistakes that others can easily notice. By making a specific part of a document stand out, it is natural to pay attention to that part, and by changing the conspicuous part for each printing, a secondary effect is expected that prevents concentration from being interrupted. doing.

  Furthermore, the above printing itself can basically be performed by a current word processor. For example, when a specific word is highlighted and printed, first a character string search is performed by a word processor, coloring is performed, and the color is printed on paper. However, this embodiment has the following advantages over such functions.

  Processing such as search, coloring, and printing can be simplified. There is no need to change the original document. In other words, there is no need to restore the document data. Furthermore, it is possible to customize only the state printed on paper without changing the original document.

  Further, highlight printing of the document described above is not necessarily limited to a text document. Even in tables and figures, it is possible to print a specific part conspicuously, and it has the same significance.

  Next, the operation of the document editing apparatus of this embodiment will be described. FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of the document editing apparatus 1. These functions are essentially executed by the document editing program 52 and the print processing program 54. In FIG. 2, the editing processing unit 100 is in charge of management such as editing and saving for the electronic document 110. This corresponds to a word processor function or a draw tool installed in a personal computer. The electronic document 110 (document data) is preferably stored in the data memory 40, and is read from the data memory 40 when editing by the editing processing means 100 is performed or when it is printed.

  The condition acquisition unit 120 receives a condition for what words, words, and character strings are printed conspicuously on paper. Preferably, in the apparatus shown in FIG. 1, a print condition setting dialog 200 as shown in FIG. 3 is displayed on the display 22, and the user inputs conditions using the dialog 200.

Examples of conditions include the following. These are examples, and it is possible to appropriately set conditions that the user wants to identify or emphasize during printing.
(1) Specific word, character string (2) Phrase / sentence, paragraph delimiter (punctuation, punctuation, comma, period, indentation, etc.)
(3) Definition part and reference part of specific word (4) Word of specific part of speech (noun, verb, etc.)
(5) Characters of specific character types (Kanji, Katakana, etc.), specific fonts (Mincho and Gothic)

  The print condition setting dialog 200 can be roughly divided into three types of condition settings: highlight 210 for character strings, highlight 220 for punctuation marks, and highlight 230 for specific parts of speech. These conditions are enabled by checking the check box on the left, and a plurality of conditions can be combined.

  For example, when a specific character string is highlighted and printed, the user inputs the specific character string in the text box 212. In the example shown in the figure, two character strings can be input. Of course, two or more character strings may be input.

  Similarly, to highlight “punctuation marks” or “reading marks”, check the check box. In addition to this, it is also possible to prepare check boxes for parts indicating sentence breaks, such as “comma”, “period”, and “start of paragraph”.

  In the part-of-speech highlight 230, these conditions are validated by checking the check boxes corresponding to “noun”, “verb”, “adjective”, and “adverb”.

  Furthermore, a color designation button 240 for designating a color is displayed on the right side of the screen. When highlighting, by clicking the color designation button 240, a dialog for designating colors is displayed, where individual colors can be designated.

  In actual application design, the print condition setting dialog 200 may be displayed before or after the standard print dialog displayed when printing a document. Also good. Alternatively, a new “print condition setting” button may be added to the standard print dialog, and the print condition setting dialog 200 may be displayed by clicking there.

  The partial extraction means 130 extracts words from the electronic document 110 that meet the conditions specified by the condition acquisition means 120. The position of the extracted word is held in the memory. As the data structure, it is necessary to hold at least a set of sets of extracted word start positions and end positions. For example, FIG. 4 shows a data structure when the word “document” is designated by the condition acquisition means 120. When the partial extraction unit 130 searches for data corresponding to “document” in the electronic document 110, the partial extraction unit 130 stores the start position and the end position of the corresponding data. The end position may be a relative position from the start position. The position expression method may be the number of characters in the text, or the page number and XY coordinates in the page.

  The print processing unit 140 creates print data necessary for printing the electronic document 110 on paper. At that time, based on the position of the word extracted by the partial extraction unit 130, identification such that the extracted word is conspicuous, for example, data such as highlight, coloring, and underline is superimposed on the electronic document 110, and the print data Create In addition to the above method of displaying the extracted word, the word may be highlighted by changing the font attribute (bold, italic) of the word. In the print condition setting dialog 200 shown in FIG. 3, the highlight color can be instructed by the color designation button 240, but an input button that enables selection of these in accordance with the above identification and emphasis. May be displayed.

  FIG. 5 shows an operation flow of print processing in the present embodiment. When a user issues a print instruction in the document editing apparatus, a print condition setting dialog 200 is displayed on the display. The user inputs a word condition and an emphasis method for emphasis or identification through the print condition setting dialog 200. This input is acquired by the condition acquisition means 120 (step S101).

  Next, the partial extraction unit 130 receives the condition from the condition acquisition unit 120, searches the electronic document 110 according to the condition, searches for a word that matches the condition (step S102), and stores the position of the word in the position table. Store (step S103). The search is repeated one after another, and all positions that meet the conditions are extracted from the document.

  When the word extraction is completed, the extraction result is sent to the print processing unit 140, and the print processing unit 140 shapes the data for printing (step S104). Here, it should be noted that the original data of the electronic document 110 is not changed at all. The print data simply refers to the document data, and only gives the modification of the word to be emphasized and the method to be emphasized. In other words, the print processing unit 140 changes the printing form based on the original electronic document by the emphasis method designated by the user for the word at each position in the position table.

  Based on the print data thus shaped, a paper document 150 is generated by the printer (step S105).

  According to this embodiment, it is possible to print a document in a print style desired by the user without modifying the original document data. In other words, it is possible to easily perform printing according to the purpose of editing or revising the document. In the case of a conventional printing method, when emphasizing a specific word or the like, the document data must be processed, and the emphasis must be restored after the printing is finished. However, this can be avoided.

  In the above embodiment, an example in which one word of “document” is highlighted has been shown, but highlighting of a plurality of words can also be realized by the same method. In order to print a plurality of words with different expression methods, it is necessary to change the position table. That is, as shown in FIG. 6, in addition to the word position information, management information relating to the word display method may be held. For example, when searching for “document” and “document”, in addition to the corresponding positions, information indicating that “document” is displayed in red and “document” is displayed in green is stored.

  Furthermore, in the electronic document 110, when the user inputs conditions regarding “document”, “document”, and “sentence” as specific words, a print example is shown in FIG. “Document” is highlighted in green, “Document” is highlighted in red, and “Document” is highlighted in yellow (however, in FIG. 7, these words are surrounded by a rectangle and hatched). Thereby, each word can be easily distinguished in the document, and the context in which each word is used can be easily confirmed.

  Moreover, coloring words on paper also produces the following side effects. When turning paper, figures and tables can act as a visual effect to remember or recall specific parts. It is a way of remembering, such as “There was a description of XX on the right side of the page”, “There was a description of XX on the diagram”, and a navigation method. We believe that colored paper documents can facilitate such memory and navigation.

  FIG. 8 is a functional block diagram illustrating an example in which a term dictionary is added to the document editing apparatus. The term dictionary 160 may be, for example, a database of specialized words, or a database of terms customized by the user.

  The partial extraction unit 130 cuts out all words from the electronic document 110 (morphological analysis may be used or all partial character strings may be extracted), and whether or not these words are described in the term dictionary 160. To check. If it is described, repeat the process of storing in the position table.

  Further, the partial extraction unit 130 may extract words that match the conditions acquired from the condition acquisition unit 120 from the electronic document 110 and check whether or not the extracted words are included in the term dictionary 160.

  The document editing apparatus may print a portion corresponding to a spelling error or grammatical error of the electronic document when printing. A spelling checker, grammar checker or style checker is provided in existing word processors. The partial extraction means 130 can also cooperate with this function to extract sentences, phrases, words, and the like that are likely to have spelling errors, and print them so that they are highlighted.

  FIG. 9 shows a functional block diagram when a numbering function is added to the document editing apparatus. The document editing apparatus shown in FIG. 9 can number sentences and sentences on paper. Instead of the partial extracting means 130 used in the above embodiment, a sentence dividing means 170 and a number assigning means 180 are provided.

  The condition acquisition unit 120 acquires a condition on how to assign a number to a sentence at the time of printing from the user. The type of condition is whether the numbering target is a character, sentence, paragraph, etc., and at what interval the number is to be numbered (for example, the number of characters is numbered every five characters, or every five lines) Number of the sentence), what kind of number (number font, font, etc.), and whether the number is sequential.

  The sentence dividing unit 170 divides the sentence of the electronic document 110 based on the condition acquired by the condition acquiring unit 120. The components of the divided sentences are stored in the memory as an array.

  Numbering means 180 numbers the divided components in order. At this time, the numbering method may be all sequential or may be combined with the number of sections or chapters. The number may be a number or an alphabetic character. It may also be enclosed in parentheses or connected with a symbol such as a hyphen.

  FIG. 10 shows an example of arrangement in the case of sequential numbering. As shown in the figure, the divided sentences are numbered correspondingly.

  The print processing unit 140 generates print data by reconstructing the numbered sentences based on the sentence component table, and causes the printer to print. FIG. 11 shows a print example when the total number of characters is printed together with the text based on the characters. Here, when many numbers are described, it becomes difficult to see, so the number of characters of 5 characters is displayed to avoid this. Further, a multiple of 10 is printed in a dark color, and a multiple of 5 is printed in a light color. As a result, the number of characters, the length of a sentence, the size of a paragraph, etc. can be easily grasped at a glance, and if it is found inappropriate, it can be immediately fed back to editing.

  Various devices can be considered for the format of printing. It is also possible to print symbols such as dots and asterisks instead of numbers. In addition, the cumulative number of characters may be described at the end of each line so as not to leave a space between lines.

  As a further application example of the document editing apparatus, the space between lines of text on paper is changed, and a margin such as a margin is changed. In this case, when the condition acquisition unit 120 acquires an instruction to increase the line spacing from the user, the print processing unit 140 generates and prints the diagnosis data according to the condition. The sentence dividing means 170 as shown in FIG. 11 is not necessarily required, but the space between lines of the sentences divided by the sentence dividing means 170 may be varied.

  FIG. 12 shows, as a further application example of the document editing apparatus, on a preview screen when printing, it is possible to draw characters and figures on the screen and print them together. The print processing unit 140 displays a print preview screen on the display when printing. Such a function is provided in an existing word processor. In this embodiment, when the preview screen is displayed, the preview screen drawing means 190 draws an arbitrary character, figure or the like in an overlapping manner. For drawing, text and figures are input from a keyboard and a mouse. The figure may be handwritten or a figure pattern may be used.

  FIG. 13 shows an example of drawing on the preview screen. For example, “important” 250 is described on the preview screen, or a desired character string is enclosed by a frame. This is useful for showing a cautionary mark for readers who check a document. In addition, when printing a large number of copies, it is only necessary to write the information once in the preview screen, so that it is possible to save much time and waste. In FIG. 12, the condition acquisition unit 120 and the partial extraction unit 130 are shown, but these units are not necessarily required for drawing the preview screen.

  Next, FIG. 14 shows a document editing apparatus according to the second embodiment of the present invention. Components identical to those of the first embodiment are designated by the same reference numerals, and detailed description thereof is omitted here. The print processing unit 140 creates print data for printing the electronic document 110, and the paper document 150 is output. At this time, an ID (identification information) associated with the electronic document 110 and the paper document 150 is assigned to the paper document. For example, a bar code or a glyph code can be used as a method of giving the ID.

The user performs necessary writing while reading the printed paper document 150. Examples of writing are as follows.
(1) Write the correction result to the location to be corrected.
(2) Check lines, stars, etc. at the points to be corrected.
(3) Give a symbol to that effect to the place to be deleted.

  What is important in the above writing is that no restriction is imposed on the user as to what kind of writing should be performed. The user can write in his / her style according to his / her preference. All that matters to the system is the fact that it has been “written”.

  The paper document reading unit 310 reads the document 300 written by the user using a scanner or the like. The electronic document calling unit 320 extracts the part of the ID given at the time of printing from the paper document image read by the paper document reading unit 310, and takes out the corresponding document file based on the extracted part.

  The writing extraction unit 330 takes the difference between the electronic document 110 and the image of the paper document, and acquires position information written by the user on the paper document 150. What is important here is that it is not necessary to extract the entire written symbol (of course, it is not necessary to recognize the written symbol or character), and it is only necessary to extract only the information about where it was written. Although it does not deny the extraction of the writing result, the purpose can be achieved if the writing position can be acquired. The writing position does not need to be a position in the text (for example, which character or which character is between which characters), but is simply a position on paper at the time of printing (XY coordinates). If it is. For example, a write position table as shown in FIG. 15 is stored in the memory.

  The writing navigation means 340 obtains written positions one after another based on the written position table, and calculates which position of the electronic document 110 corresponds to the written position. Then, the document display screen on the display is scrolled to the calculated position.

  By implementing the above navigation functions, when reflecting the written part in the electronic document, the user searches for the corresponding part of the electronic document (following the eyes or using the character string search function) while looking at the paper. Can be reduced.

  The preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above. However, the present invention is not limited to the specific embodiments, and various modifications can be made within the scope of the gist of the present invention described in the claims. Deformation / change is possible.

  The information processing apparatus and information processing program according to the present invention can be used in an electronic apparatus such as a personal computer, and in particular, can be used together with software having an existing word processor function, an editor, or the like, or independently. Furthermore, the information processing apparatus should be interpreted broadly and includes an information processing system in which a plurality of electronic devices are combined. Furthermore, a program for information processing may be distributed as application software, or may be electronically distributed from a server or the like and installed in a computer or the like.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the document editing apparatus based on the Example of this invention. It is a functional block diagram of the document editing apparatus by a present Example. It is a figure which shows a printing condition setting dialog. It is the position table of the extracted word. It is an operation | movement flow which shows the printing operation | movement in the document editing apparatus concerning a present Example. A position table extended for multiple words. This is an example when a plurality of specific words are color-coded and printed. It is a functional block diagram when a term dictionary is added to the document editing device. It is a functional block diagram when a numbering function is added to the document editing apparatus. It is a table | surface of the component of a sentence. This is an example of printing the total number of characters. It is a functional block diagram when a drawing function of a preview screen is added to the document editing apparatus. It is an example of drawing on a preview screen. It is a functional block diagram of the document editing apparatus which concerns on 2nd Example of this invention. It is a table which shows a writing position.

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1: Document editing device 10: Input device 20: Display control unit 22: Display 30: Output device 32: Printer 40: Data memory 50: Program memory 52: Document editing program 54: Print processing program 60: Central processing device 100 : Electronic document 110: editing processing means 120: condition acquisition means 130: partial extraction means 140: print processing means 150: paper document 160: term dictionary 170: sentence division means 180: number assignment means 190: preview screen drawing means 200: printing Condition setting dialog

Claims (19)

An information processing apparatus having a document editing function,
Document data holding means for holding document data;
A condition input means for inputting a condition for identifying a specific part of the document;
Specific part extraction means for extracting the specific part from the document data in accordance with the condition input by the condition input means;
Print processing means for processing the document data so that the specific part is identified based on the specific part extracted by the specific part extracting means, and outputting the processed data as print data;
An information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the specific part includes at least one of a punctuation mark, a paragraph start, a comma, or a period as a sentence break. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the specific portion includes a specific character string. The information according to claim 1, wherein the specific part includes a definition part and a reference part of a specific word, and the print processing unit processes the document data so that the definition part and the reference part are identified in different forms. Processing equipment. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the specific part includes at least one specific part of speech, verb, or object. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the specific portion includes a character having a specific character type. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the specific portion includes a character including a specific font. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the specific part includes a character string or a sentence including a spelling error or a grammatical error. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the specific portion includes a character string having a specific style. The information processing apparatus further includes a term dictionary that stores a plurality of words, and the specific part extracting unit determines whether the extracted specific part matches a word included in the term dictionary, and print processing unit The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the document data is processed according to the determination result. An information processing apparatus having a document editing function,
Document data holding means for holding document data;
Condition input means for inputting printing conditions;
Print processing means for processing the document data so as to increase the line spacing of the text without changing the original document data in accordance with the printing conditions input by the condition input means, and outputting this as print data;
An information processing apparatus. An information processing apparatus having a document editing function,
Document data holding means for holding document data;
Condition input means for inputting printing conditions;
Print processing means for processing the document data so that the margin of the text can be changed without changing the original document data in accordance with the print conditions input by the condition input means, and outputting the print data as print data;
An information processing apparatus. An information processing apparatus having a document editing function,
Document data holding means for holding document data;
Condition input means for inputting printing conditions;
Sentence dividing means for dividing the sentence included in the document data in accordance with the printing conditions input by the condition input means;
Numbering means for assigning numbers to the constituent parts of each sentence divided by the sentence dividing means;
Based on the number assigned by the number assigning means, print processing means for processing the document data so that the constituent parts of each sentence are numbered, and outputting this as print data;
An information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the sentence dividing unit uses a character as a unit of division. The information processing apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the sentence dividing unit uses a sentence as a unit of division. The information processing apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the sentence dividing unit uses a paragraph as a unit of division. An information processing apparatus having a document editing function,
Document data holding means for holding document data;
Display means for displaying a print preview screen when printing document data;
A drawing means for drawing drawing data such as characters and figures on the preview screen;
Print processing means for processing document data to be printed in a state in which the drawing data is drawn on the print preview screen, and outputting this as print data;
An information processing apparatus. An information processing program having a document editing function,
Document data holding means for holding document data;
A condition input means for inputting a condition for identifying a specific part of the document;
Specific part extraction means for extracting the specific part from the document data in accordance with the condition input by the condition input means;
Print processing means for processing the document data so that the specific part is identified based on the specific part extracted by the specific part extracting means, and outputting the processed data as print data;
An information processing program having A printing method in an information processing apparatus having a document editing function,
Holding document data; and
Entering conditions for identifying specific parts of the document;
Extracting a specific portion from the document data in accordance with the condition input by the condition input means;
Processing the document data so that the specific part is identified based on the extracted specific part, and outputting the print data as print data;
A printing method comprising:

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