KR20090016214A - System for forming data format of electronic book, and apparatus for converting format applied to the same - Google Patents

Abstract

A system for forming data format of electronic book and an apparatus for converting format applied to the same are provided to form a data format of an electronic book according to an electronic book terminal by performing a format conversion device for supporting multi functions. A document supply server(100) provides source data based on a document. An electronic book server includes an electronic book performed with the source data. An electronic terminal is contacted in the electronic book server, and is implemented by receiving the electronic book. A format conversion device(200) forms a data format of the electronic book corresponding to an electronic book terminal based on the source data, extracts property data from news data, classifies the property data according to the electronic book terminal for displaying an electronic newspaper based on the property data. The format conversion device not only converts the property data into at least one or more intermediate data but also forms the data format of the electronic newspaper by packaging the intermediate data.

Description

SYSTEM FOR FORMING DATA FORMAT OF ELECTRONIC BOOK, AND APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING FORMAT APPLIED TO THE SAME}

The present invention relates to a technology for the implementation of an e-book, by implementing a dedicated e-book solution corresponding to the operating environment of the e-book terminal, the various reading methods for the e-book in the terminal, document content search, for the document content The present invention relates to a system for forming a data format constituting an e-book for supporting functions including session extension and scraping of contents of a document, and a format conversion apparatus applied thereto.

In recent years, the number of people using the Internet has increased exponentially with the establishment of information infrastructure and communication environment improvement, and it will continue to increase in the future.

In line with this trend, various commercial transactions are made possible through the Internet, and information can be provided. In addition to this network environment, various multimedia technologies are possible, and general books sold as paper books are also used as e-books. Is being distributed through.

An electronic book (e-Book) refers to a file published in digital form without the use of paper media for the content of knowledge and information. Such an e-book can be used to read tram books. It can be viewed through a PC equipped with a program or a dedicated portable terminal, and such a device is sometimes called an e-book. In other words, it can refer to all software and hardware media including contents in a broad sense.

Here, an e-book (hereinafter referred to as an “e-newspaper”) that is implemented as a newspaper among e-books implemented with various contents such as books, weekly papers, advertisements, and newspapers is generally an electronic newspaper providing server (for example, a newspaper company server). The reading is performed in the e-book terminal while maintaining the form of the PDF file provided from.

As such, since the reading solution for the terminal is not supported for the reading of the electronic newspaper in the e-book terminal, the PDF file of the e-newspaper provided from the newspaper server is still displayed on the e-book terminal. This could not support various reading methods such as displaying on the terminal screen or reading in text form, and also could not support various newspaper viewing functions such as searching for the article, expanding by article, and scraping the article.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above problems, the object of the present invention is to implement an e-book-specific solution corresponding to the operating environment of the e-book terminal, various reading methods for the e-book in the terminal, document content The present invention provides a system for forming a data format constituting an e-book for supporting functions including retrieval, session expansion for a corresponding document content, and scrapping of the corresponding document content, and a format conversion apparatus applied thereto.

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system for forming a data format of an e-book, including: a document supply server providing document-based source data and image data, text data, and text data from the source data. Extracting at least one feature data of coordinate information and session area information corresponding to the at least one of the at least one feature, classifying the feature data into at least one intermediate data for each e-book terminal displaying an e-book formed based on the feature data, and And a format conversion device for packaging the at least one intermediate data to form a data format of the e-book.

Preferably, the data format is formed through header information for determining the source data and dithering processing corresponding to the display size of the e-book terminal by extracting the image data included in the source data in a rendering process. Image intermediate data, text intermediate data formed by executing XML formatting on the text data, text size adjustment due to font size adjustment of the text intermediate data, or based on text arrangement due to layout combination of the image intermediate data and the text intermediate data Based on the intermediate data of the coordinate information, the intermediate data of the session area information and the text intermediate data for displaying the document content on a screen of the e-book terminal based on the session area information. text It characterized in that it comprises a text search data for executing a color.

Preferably, the image intermediate data supports image size adjustment in response to selection change of the display size in the e-book terminal, and is set as a format for graphic support in any one of gray scale mode and color mode. It is characterized by.

Preferably, the format conversion apparatus includes a file loader for loading the source data, a header parser for controlling the execution of format conversion by determining header information of the loaded source data, An image manager for extracting the image data from the source data through an execution command of a header parser to form the image intermediate data, and extracting the text data through an execution command of the header parser A text XML formatter for formatting an XML data, a coordinate processing manager for forming intermediate data of the text data and the session area information, and processing coordinate information for each intermediate data, and the at least one intermediate For packaging data to form the data format of the e-book It characterized in that it comprises a packaging processor.

Preferably, the text search data is characterized in that the data is formed through the interworking of the text XML formatter and the coordinate processing manager.

Advantageously, said image manager dithers said image intermediate data into a 16-gray image.

Preferably, when the source data is a PDF file, the coordinate processing manager extracts coordinate information about each text and coordinate information about each session area from the PDF file.

In addition, a format converting apparatus into a data format forming an e-book according to a second aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, a file loader for receiving and loading document-based source data, the header of the loaded source data A header parser for determining information and controlling execution of format conversion, an image manager for extracting the image data from the source data to form the image intermediate data through an execution command of the header parser, and an execution command of the header parser A text XML formatter for extracting the text data from the text data and formatting the text data with the XML data, and forming intermediate data of the text data and the session area information, and a coordinate processing manager for processing coordinate information on each intermediate data. And packaging the at least one intermediate data. W is characterized in that it comprises a packaging processor for forming a data format of the electronic book.

Preferably, the file loader is connected to the document supply server providing the source data through HTTP or Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).

Preferably, the format conversion apparatus is provided in at least one of an e-book server for providing the e-book and an e-book terminal for receiving and executing the e-book.

Therefore, the present invention implements a dedicated e-book solution corresponding to the operating environment of the e-book terminal, various reading methods for the e-book, document content search, session expansion for the document content and scrap of the document content in the terminal By implementing a data format forming system for forming an e-book for supporting functions including a format conversion device and a format conversion apparatus applied thereto, the data format of an e-book such as an e-newspaper for each e-book terminal supporting various reading functions is implemented. Not only can it be formed, but also the development of functions added to an e-book terminal for executing a characteristic e-book such as an e-newspaper can be further activated. There is an advantage that can be viewed.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail a preferred embodiment of a system for forming a data format of an e-book according to the present invention in detail.

1 is a block diagram of a system for forming a data format constituting an e-book according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, a system for forming a data format constituting an e-book includes a document supply server 100 for providing document-based source data, an e-book server having an e-book implemented based on the source data, An e-book terminal connected to the e-book server to receive and execute a corresponding e-book, and a format conversion device 200 for forming a data format of the e-book corresponding to each e-book based on the source data. do.

Here, the format conversion apparatus 200 is preferably provided in at least one of the e-book server and the e-book terminal.

The document-based source data is news data for implementing an electronic newspaper among various e-books.

The format conversion apparatus 200 extracts at least one feature data from image data, text data, coordinate information corresponding to the text data, and session area information from the news data, and displays an electronic newspaper based on the feature data. In addition to classifying the characteristic data for each e-book terminal and converting the characteristic data into at least one intermediate data, the data format of the electronic newspaper is formed by packaging and compressing the at least one intermediate data.

To this end, the format conversion apparatus 200 determines a file loader 210 for loading news data provided through an HTTP or Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) connection, and header information of the loaded news data. An image manager 230 for forming image intermediate data by extracting image data from news data through a header parser 220 for controlling execution of format conversion and an execution command of the header parser 220 ( Image Manager), the text XML formatter 240 for extracting the text data through the execution command of the header parser 220 and formatting the XML into the text intermediate data, and the intermediate data of the text data and the session area information. And a coordinate processing manager 250 for processing coordinate information of each intermediate data and the at least one intermediate data to package the e-book. A packaging processor 250 for forming the data format of the.

In addition, the text search data is a combination of text intermediate data formatted in XML through the interworking of the text XML formatter 240 and the coordinate processing manager 250 and coordinate information about the intermediate data of the text intermediate data and the session area information. Data that is formed. The text search data is additionally configured for text-based news search together with the original article search.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a format of a data format for the e-book file illustrated in FIG. 1. As shown in FIG. 2, the data format of the e-book file is configured to correspond to the display size of the e-book terminal by extracting header information for determining news data and image data included in the news data by rendering processing. Image intermediate data formed through dithering, text intermediate data formed by executing XML formatting for text data, font size adjustment of text intermediate data, or text due to layout combination of image intermediate data and text intermediate data Text search based on the intermediate data and text intermediate data of the session area information to display the document contents on the screen of the e-book terminal by dividing the document contents by session based on the intermediate data of the coordinate information formed based on the arrangement and the session area information. Text search to run And a data.

Here, the image intermediate data is preferably dithered into a 16-gray image through the image manager 230 to reduce the data size, and supports image size adjustment in response to the selection change of the display size in the e-book terminal, Preferably, the format is set to a format for graphic support in either the scale or color mode.

The header information may include format identifier, format version information, outgoing newspaper company information, newspaper publication date, and conversion file producer information.

When the news data is a PDF file, since the text intermediate data and the intermediate data of the coordinate information do not include the coordinate information of each text in the original text of the PDF, a combination of font size and each layout is included in the data format for the e-book. It is preferable to extract the coordinate information of the final rendered state through, and the coordinate information extracted through this process is configured in the XML form with the corresponding text.

Such coordinate information is very useful information for implementing an application service such as dictionary linkage by selecting a word through a word display function or user input setting when searching text in an electronic newspaper of an e-book terminal.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in more detail with respect to the operation of the system for forming a data format of the e-book according to the present invention.

3 is a diagram illustrating an operation process of a system for forming a data format constituting the e-book shown in FIG. 1. As shown in FIG. 3, the format conversion apparatus 200 may classify image data, such as a bitmap or JPEG, or a PDF file text through classification by data characteristics for news data provided from the document supply server 100 in HTTP or SOAP. In addition, session area information and text data are extracted.

Then, 16-gray dithering is performed on the image data to be optimized for the screen of the e-book terminal, and text coordinate information is extracted from the PDF file to determine the position of the word when the specific word is selected by the terminal user. In addition, the process of converting to intermediate data including performing XML formatting on texts included in session area information and text data is performed.

The intermediate data (including image, coordinates, XML, etc.) formed in this way is packaged and compressed to implement a data format that forms an e-book.

Although the above has been described with reference to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, those skilled in the art will be variously modified and changed within the scope of the invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention described in the claims below. I can understand that you can.

In addition, the present invention is to form a data format for implementing an e-book dedicated solution that meets the operating environment of the e-book terminal, so that the e-book of this data format to be viewed in various ways in the e-book terminal, commercially available Or it is an invention with industrial applicability, since not only the possibility of a business is sufficient but also the degree which can be implemented in reality clearly.

1 is a block diagram of a system for forming a data format constituting an e-book according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the format of a data format for the e-book file shown in FIG. 1; and

3 is a diagram illustrating an operation process of a system for forming a data format constituting the e-book shown in FIG. 1.

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100: document supply server 200: format conversion device

210: File Loader 220: Header Parser

230: Image Manager 240: Text XML Formatter

250: coordinate processing manager 260: packaging processor

Claims (10)

A document supply server for providing document-based source data; And Extracting at least one feature data of image data, text data, coordinate information corresponding to the text data, and session area information from the source data, and displaying the feature for each e-book terminal displaying an e-book formed based on the feature data. And classifying data into at least one intermediate data and packaging the at least one intermediate data to form a data format of the e-book. system. The method of claim 1, wherein the data format Header information for determining the source data; Image intermediate data formed through a dithering process for extracting the image data included in the source data by a rendering process and corresponding to the display size of the e-book device; Text intermediate data formed by executing XML formatting on the text data; Intermediate data of the coordinate information formed by adjusting a font size of the text intermediate data or based on text arrangement due to a layout combination of the image intermediate data and the text intermediate data; Intermediate data of the session area information for classifying document contents for each session based on the session area information for display on the screen of the e-book device; And And text search data for executing a text search based on the text intermediate data. The method of claim 2, wherein the image intermediate data is In response to the selection change of the display size of the e-book terminal, the image size is controlled, and the e-book is set to a format for graphic support in any one of gray scale mode and color mode. Formation system of data format. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the format conversion device is A file loader for loading the source data; A header parser for controlling execution of format conversion by determining header information of the loaded source data; An image manager configured to extract the image data from the source data through an execution command of the header parser to form the image intermediate data; A text XML formatter for extracting the text data through the execution command of the header parser and formatting the text data into the XML data; A coordinate processing manager for forming intermediate data of the text data and the session area information and processing coordinate information for each intermediate data; And And a packaging processor for packaging the at least one intermediate data to form a data format of the e-book. The method of claim 4, wherein the text search data is And a data format formed through the interworking of the text XML formatter and the coordinate processing manager. The method of claim 4, wherein the image manager And dithering the intermediate image data into a 16-gray image. The method of claim 4, wherein the coordinate processing manager And if the source data is a PDF file, extracting coordinate information for each text and coordinate information for each session area from the PDF file. A file loader for receiving and loading document-based source data; A header parser for controlling execution of a format conversion by determining header information of the loaded source data; An image manager for extracting the image data from the source data through an execution command of the header parser to form the image intermediate data; A text XML formatter for extracting the text data through the execution command of the header parser and formatting the text data into the XML intermediate data; A coordinate processing manager for forming intermediate data of the text data and the session area information and processing coordinate information for each intermediate data; And And a packaging processor for packaging the at least one intermediate data to form a data format of the e-book. The method of claim 8, wherein the file loader And a document supply server for providing the source data and a data conversion device to a data format constituting an e-book, characterized in that it is connected through HTTP or Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). 9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the format conversion device is At least one of an e-book server for providing the e-book and an e-book terminal for receiving and executing the e-book.

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