JP2006074439A - Image processor - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To raise convenience in printing a form document and the reuse of a form itself. <P>SOLUTION: When a form image is synthesized with an inputted image and printed, the form image is encoded, embedded in a form synthetic image, and printed. The form synthetic image with the form image encoded and embedded therein is read, so as to restore the embedded form image, print it, and register it. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  In the present invention, when a form image is combined with an input image and printed, the form image is encoded and embedded in the form composite image for printing, and the form composite image in which the form image is embedded as code data is read. The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus that restores, prints, and registers an embedded form image.

  Conventionally, in a printing system that prints standard documents such as application forms and forms, a form document is registered in the printing device in advance, and the registered form document is later specified for the printing device. A method is widely used in which images and data to be added to a document are supplied, and the supplied images and data are combined and printed on a designated form document.

  In particular, the following techniques have been devised from the viewpoint of convenience and reusability of printed form documents and form documents registered in a printing apparatus.

  First, from the viewpoint of reusability of printed form documents, a technique has been devised in which reusability of printed form documents is enhanced by embedding predetermined information in the form document for printing.

  For example, in Patent Document 1, by encoding and embedding the range information of an entry example into a form document in which an entry example is described and printing it, the form document in which the entry example is described is read and embedded later. A technique has been introduced in which a blank form document can be obtained by filling out the filled-in part from the range information.

  When this technology is applied to the use case of “distribution of application”, the applicant can arbitrarily print a blank form document later if they receive the application with this example. It is possible to obtain an effect that it is not necessary to prepare both an application form with an example entry and a blank application form.

Also, from the viewpoint of reusability of form documents registered in the printing apparatus, Patent Document 2 stores form information input from the host apparatus in a nonvolatile storage means, and character information and nonvolatile information input from the host apparatus. A technique has been devised in which a form document is printed based on form information registered in a storage means. According to this method, the form information registered in the non-volatile memory in a certain printing apparatus is used in another mounted printing apparatus by mounting the non-volatile memory in another printing apparatus. be able to.
JP-A-10-228516 JP-A-6-320823

  However, in the method of Patent Document 1 described above, information necessary for printing a blank application form (in the above example, the range information of the entry example) is only recorded in the application form itself distributed from the distribution source. So, to get a blank application form, you had to read and print the application form each time.

  In addition, in the method of Patent Document 2 described above, in order to use the same form information in a plurality of printing apparatuses, non-volatile memories in which form information is registered must be prepared, copied, and distributed. In other words, there was room for improvement in terms of cost and convenience.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the present invention encodes a form image and embeds it in a composite image when printing the form image on the input image, and the form image is encoded. Providing an image processing device that can improve the convenience at the time of printing a form document and the reusability of the form itself by reading the embedded form composite image and restoring and printing and registering the embedded form image With the goal.

  In order to achieve the above object, an image processing apparatus of the present invention inputs a form image and stores it in a storage means, and print instruction supply for supplying a print instruction including a post-install image and form designation information. Means, a form composition means for composing the retrofitted image and the form image specified by the form designation information, a code data generation means for encoding the form image to generate code data, and the code data generation means A code data embedding unit that embeds the code data generated in the form synthesizing image generated by the form synthesizing unit; and a printing unit that prints the form synthesized image in which the code data is embedded. To do.

  In the image processing apparatus, a reading unit that reads an image, a detecting unit that detects code data from an image read by the reading unit, and a form that generates a form image by decoding the code data detected by the detecting unit Image forming means, and the form image generated by the form image generating means is printed by the printing means.

  In the image processing apparatus, a reading unit that reads an image, a detecting unit that detects code data from an image read by the reading unit, and a form that generates a form image by decoding the code data detected by the detecting unit An image generation unit, and the form registration unit registers the form image generated by the form image generation unit by the form registration unit.

  The image processing apparatus may further include a selecting unit for selecting printing of either the image read by the reading unit or the form image generated by the form image generating unit. And

  The image processing apparatus may further include a selection unit for selecting whether the form image generated by the form image generation unit is printed by the printing unit or the form registration unit is registered. Features.

  The image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a form registration unit that inputs form data and stores the form data in a storage unit, a print instruction supply unit that supplies a print instruction including post-attachment data and form designation information, and the post-attachment data. A form composition unit that develops and synthesizes the form data designated by the form designation information into a bitmap image, a code data generation unit that encodes the form data to generate code data, and the code data generation unit A code data embedding unit that embeds the code data generated in the form synthesizing image generated by the form synthesizing unit; and a printing unit that prints the form synthesized image in which the code data is embedded. To do.

  According to the present invention, when a form is combined and printed in the copy function or the print function, the form image or form data is encoded and embedded in the output paper for printing. Also, the paper is read and embedded. The form image and form data can be restored and printed, and the form can be registered on the scanned device, increasing the convenience and utility value of the form document and improving the workflow efficiency in various operations using the form document. There is an effect that the cost can be reduced and the cost can be reduced.

(First embodiment)
Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

[Hardware configuration of image processing apparatus]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an outline of a hardware configuration of an image processing apparatus to which the present invention is applied.

  As shown in the figure, the image processing apparatus 1 includes a controller unit 10 that performs overall control, a panel 20 that receives and displays instructions from a user, a scanner unit 30 that reads a document image, and a printer unit 40 that performs printing.

  The controller unit 10 includes a panel interface (panel I / F) 101, a development unit 102, a form registration memory 111, an image memory 103, a printer interface (printer I / F) 104, a scanner interface, and a CPU bus 110 of the CPU 107. An interface (scanner I / F) 105, an external device / interface (external device I / F) 106, a ROM 108, and a RAM 109 are connected.

  The panel I / F 101 is connected to the panel 20 and notifies the CPU 107 of user instructions input from the panel 20, and displays screen information and setting information stored in the ROM 108 and RAM 109 on the panel 20.

  The expansion unit 102 analyzes the data input from the external device 2 and expands it into a bitmap image.

  The form registration memory 111 is a non-volatile memory for storing the form image read by the scanner unit 30 and the form data input from the external device 2.

  The image memory 103 is a memory for storing an image read by the scanner unit 30 and an image developed by the developing unit 102.

  The printer I / F 104 is connected to the printer unit 40 and outputs an image stored in the image memory 103 to the printer unit 40.

  The scanner I / F 105 is connected to the scanner unit 30 and transfers an image read by the scanner unit 30 to the image memory 103.

  The external device I / F 106 transmits / receives data to / from the external device 2.

  The CPU 107 controls each unit of the controller unit 10 according to a control program stored in the ROM 108.

  The ROM 108 is a memory that stores a control program and screen information to be displayed on the panel 20.

  A RAM 109 is a memory that stores various setting information input from the panel 20 and is used as a work area of the CPU 107.

  As described above, the image processing apparatus 1 can perform processing that combines functions such as document reading, image printing, image transmission / reception, and image storage with the controller unit 10 at the center.

[Function blocks for form registration and form composition printing]
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating functional blocks in the image processing apparatus 1 when a form image is registered, or a designated form image and a post-install image are combined and printed.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a form image, a retrofit image, and a form composite image that has been subjected to form composite printing.

  Hereinafter, processing of each functional unit at the time of form registration and form composite printing will be described with reference to these drawings.

  The image input unit 201 inputs a form image 301 and a post-installation image 302 read by the scanner unit 30.

  The form registration unit 202 stores the form image 301 input from the image input unit 201 in the form registration memory 111.

  The form composition unit 204 reads out the designated form image 301 from the form registration memory 111 and composes the post-installation image 302 input from the image input unit 201 to generate a form composition image.

  The form encoding unit 205 reads the specified form image 301 from the form registration memory 111 and encodes it to generate code data 304.

  The image composition unit 206 embeds the code data 304 input from the form encoding unit 205 in the form composite image input from the form composition unit 204 and outputs the result to the printing unit 207.

  The printing unit 207 outputs the image input from the image composition unit 206 to the printer unit 40, and prints the form composite image 303 in which the encoded form image is embedded.

[Function block when restoring form image]
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing functional blocks when the image processing apparatus 1 restores a form image from a read image and prints or registers the form.

  The image input unit 201 inputs the image 303 read by the scanner unit 30.

  The data detection unit 401 detects the encoded data 304 from the image 303 input from the image input unit 201.

  The form decryption unit 402 decrypts the encoded data 304 detected by the data detection unit 401 and generates a form image 301.

  The form image 301 generated by the form decoding unit 402 is output to the printer unit 40 by the printing unit 207 and printed, or stored in the form registration memory 111 by the form registration unit 202.

  Next, in the copy function, the image processing apparatus according to the present invention performs a form synthesis printing process in which a post-installed image read by a scanner is combined with a form image selected by a user, and prints the form composite printed paper. An embodiment applied to a form restoration printing process for restoring and printing a form image will be described.

[Form registration process (during copy function)]
First, a form registration process for registering a form image in an apparatus that performs form composite printing in advance will be described.

  FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a process flow in the image processing apparatus 1 during the form registration process. FIG. 6 shows an example of an operation screen displayed on the panel 20 during the form registration process. This will be described below with reference to these drawings.

  When the form registration process is started, the form registration unit 202 displays a screen 601 on the panel 20 and waits for an instruction to start scanning a form image to be registered (step S501).

  When the OK key is pressed on the screen 601, the form image set on the document table is scanned by the scanner unit 30, and the scanned form image is stored in the form registration memory 111 (step S502).

  Subsequently, in order to give a name for specifying this to the stored form image, the screen 602 is displayed, and the input of the form name is waited (step S503).

  When the form name is input on the screen 602 and the OK key is pressed, the input form name is stored in the form registration memory 111 in association with the form image stored in step S502 (step S504), and a series of processing is performed. Finish.

[Form composite printing process (during copy function)]
Next, a form synthesis printing process is performed in which a form image registered in the form registration memory 111 is selected, a form is synthesized with a retrofit image, and the selected form image is encoded and embedded in the form synthesis image for printing. explain.

  FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the flow of processing in the image processing apparatus 1 during form synthesis printing. FIG. 8 shows an example of an operation screen displayed on the panel 20 during the form composite printing process. This will be described below with reference to these drawings.

  When the form composition printing process is started, the form composition unit 204 displays a screen 801 representing a list of form images stored in the form registration memory 111, and a form image to be composed is selected from the form image list. (Step S701).

  When the form image is selected and the OK key is pressed, a screen 802 is displayed, and it is waited for whether the form image is encoded and embedded to be printed (step S702).

  When “Yes” or “No” is selected on the screen 802, the screen 803 is displayed, and it waits for an instruction to start scanning of a retrofit image (step S703).

  When the OK key is pressed on the screen 803, the after image set on the document table is scanned by the scanner unit 30, and the scanned after image is stored in the image memory 103 (step S704).

  Subsequently, the form image selected in step S701 is taken out from the form registration memory 111, synthesized with the post-installation image stored in the image memory 103, and stored again in the image memory 103 (step S705).

  Next, it is determined whether or not “Yes” has been selected on the selection screen (screen 802) as to whether or not “print with embedded form image” (step S706).

  If “Yes” is selected, the processing of the form encoding unit 205 is activated, and the form encoding unit 205 extracts the form image selected in step S701 from the form registration memory 111 and encodes it (step S1). S707).

  Subsequently, the processing of the image composition unit 206 is activated, and the image composition unit 206 forms the form image encoded by the form encoding unit 205 and the form generated by the form composition unit 204 and stored in the image memory 103. The synthesized image is synthesized and stored in the image memory 103 again (step S708).

  When the image synthesized by the image synthesizing unit 206 has been stored in the image memory 103, the processing of the printing unit 207 is started, and the printing unit 207 outputs the image stored in the image memory 103 to the printer unit 40. And print.

  If “No” is selected on the screen 802 in step S706, the process proceeds to step S709, and only the form composite image stored in the image memory 103 is printed without performing the form image encoding process. Do.

  With the above processing, when “print with embedded form image” is selected in the form synthesis printing process of the copy function, the selected form image and the retrofitted image are simply synthesized and printed. Instead, the selected form image itself is encoded and embedded in the form composite image for printing.

[Form restoration printing process]
Next, a description will be given of a form restoration printing process in which a document in which a form image is encoded and embedded is read by the above-described form synthesis printing process, and the form image is restored and printed.

  FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the flow of processing in the image processing apparatus 1 during form restoration printing processing. FIG. 10 shows an example of an operation screen displayed on the panel 20 in this processing. This will be described below with reference to these drawings.

  When the form restoration printing process is started, a screen 1001 is displayed on the panel 20, and a standby for an instruction to start scanning a document is waited (step S901).

  When the OK key is pressed on the screen 1001, the document set on the document table is scanned by the scanner unit 30, and the scanned document image is stored in the image memory 103 (step S902).

  Subsequently, the data detection unit 401 detects whether the scanned document image includes a form image as code data (step S903).

  When a form image is included as code data in the original image, a screen 1002 is displayed on the panel 20, and the original image is printed as it is (normal copy processing) or the form is restored and printed (form restoration) Printing process), and waits for any process to be selected (step S904).

  When “print form” is selected on the screen 1002, the process of the form decryption unit 402 is activated, and the form decryption unit 402 decodes the code data detected by the data detection unit 401 to display the form image. Restore. Further, the restored form image is overwritten and stored in the area of the image memory 103 where the document image is stored (step S905).

  When the restored form image is stored in the image memory 103, the processing of the printing unit 207 is started, and the printing unit 207 transfers the image (in this case, the form image) stored in the image memory 103 to the printer unit. Output and print (step S906).

  If the encoded data of the form image is not detected by the data detection unit 401 in step S903, the process proceeds to step S906, and the image stored in the image memory 103 (in this case, the scanned document image) is used as it is. The data is output to the printer unit 40 and printed.

  If “copy original” is selected on the screen 1002 in step S904, the process similarly proceeds to step S906, and the image stored in the image memory 103 is directly output to the printer unit 40 and printed.

  With the above processing, when a document in which a form image is encoded and embedded is read and printed, not only the read document image is printed as it is, but also the encoded and embedded form image is used. Can be printed.

  In other words, if you read an application with an entry example (retrofitting data) in which a blank application form (form image) is embedded as code data, you can copy the application with the entry example as it is, You can also decrypt and print a blank application.

  Furthermore, the image processing apparatus according to the present embodiment can not only print the form image obtained by decoding the code data but also register and reuse the form by combining with the above-described form registration process.

  Next, a process for registering a form image obtained by the restoration will be described.

[Form restoration registration process]
11 and 12 are flowcharts showing the flow of processing in the image processing apparatus 1 when printing or registering a form image obtained by decoding code data embedded in a read image. FIG. 13 shows an example of an operation screen displayed on the panel 20 in this processing. This will be described below with reference to these drawings.

  Since the process from scanning the document and storing the scanned document image in the image memory 103 (steps S1101 to S1102) is the same as steps S901 to S902 in FIG. 9, the description thereof is omitted.

  When the scanned document image is completely stored in the image memory 103 in step S1102, the data detection unit 401 detects whether the scanned document image includes a form image as code data (step S1103). .

  If the code data is not detected, the process ends at this point.

  When the code data is detected, the screen 1301 is displayed on the panel 20, and the form image obtained by decoding the code data is printed (form printing process) or the form is registered (form registration process). It waits for any process to be selected (step S1104).

  Since processing (steps S1105 to S1306) when “print form” on the screen 1301 is selected is the same as steps S1105 to S1106 in FIG. 9, the description thereof is omitted.

  When “Register form” is selected on the screen 1301, the process proceeds to step S1201 in FIG.

  In step S1201, the code data detected by the data detection unit 401 is decoded by the form decoding unit 402 to restore the form image. Further, the restored form image is stored in the form registration memory 111.

  Subsequently, a screen 602 for inputting a form name is displayed on the panel 20 as in the case of processing for registering a form by scanning a normal form image (FIG. 5). Wait (step S1202).

  When a form name is entered on the panel 20 and the OK key is pressed, the entered form name is stored in the form registration memory 111 in association with the form image stored in step S1201 (step S1203), and a series of processing is performed. Finish.

  Through the above processing, when a document in which a form image is encoded and embedded is read, the encoded and embedded form image can be printed or registered in the form registration memory 111 and reused. It can be.

  In other words, when this is applied to the example of the application form with the entry example described above, the blank application form can be registered in the image processing apparatus as a form image, so the original application form is read each time to obtain a blank application form. If you prepare an image that describes the necessary items as a retrofit image, you can use the form composite printing function to create a blank application form (form image). You can also use it by compositing and printing an image (retrofitting image) that describes the necessary items.

(Second Embodiment)
In the first embodiment, the example in which the image processing apparatus of the present invention is applied to the form composition printing process in the copy function has been described. However, in this embodiment, printing is performed by inputting data from an external apparatus and performing form printing. A case where the function is applied to the form composite printing process will be described.

[Function blocks for form registration and form composition printing]
FIG. 14 is a diagram showing functional blocks when the form data input from the external device 2 is registered in the image processing apparatus 1 of the present embodiment, or when the designated form data and post-attachment data are combined and printed. It is. The function of each functional unit at the time of form registration and form composite printing will be described with reference to FIG.

  The data input unit 1401 outputs data input from the external device 2 to the data analysis unit 1402.

  The data analysis unit 1402, the form registration unit 1403, and the form composition unit 1404 are functional units included in the development unit 102. The data analysis unit 1402 analyzes the data input from the data input unit 1401, and depends on the analysis result. The input data is output to the form registration unit 1403 or the form composition unit 1404.

  The form registration unit 1403 stores the form data input from the data analysis unit 1402 in the form registration memory 111.

  The form composition unit 1404 takes out the designated form data from the form registration memory 111, combines it with the post-installed data input from the data analysis unit 1402, develops it into a bitmap image, and generates a form composition image. Further, the form encoding unit 1405 is notified of information on the designated form data.

  The form encoding unit 1405 reads the designated form data from the form registration memory 111 and encodes it to generate encoded data 304.

  The image composition unit 1406 embeds the code data input from the form encoding unit 1405 in the form composite image input from the form composition unit 1404 and outputs the result to the printing unit 1407.

  The printing unit 1407 outputs the image input from the image combining unit 1406 to the printer unit 40, and prints the form combined image in which the encoded form data is embedded.

  FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating an example of data transmitted from the external device 2 during form registration or form printing.

  The form registration data 1501 includes a “form registration command” for instructing form registration, a “form name” indicating the name of the form data to be registered, and “form data” to be registered.

  Form printing data 1502 includes a “form printing command” for instructing form printing, a “form name” for designating form data to be synthesized, and a “form for instructing whether to encode and embed the form data in a form composite image” It is composed of “embedding instruction (Yes / No)” and “retrofitting data” added to the form data.

  These data are described in a page description language (PDL data). When the “form data” is expanded into a bitmap image by the expansion unit 102, for example, an image shown in the form image 301 of FIG. 3 is generated. When “retrofitting data” is developed into a bitmap image, for example, an image shown in a postscript image 302 in FIG. 3 is generated.

[Form registration process and form composition print process (when printing function)]
FIGS. 16 and 17 are flowcharts showing the flow of processing until the data shown in FIG. 15 is actually input from the external device 2 and form registration or form composite printing is performed in the image processing apparatus 1 of the present embodiment. is there.

  Details will be described below with reference to these flowcharts.

  First, when data is input from the external device 2, the data input unit 1401 outputs the input data to the data analysis unit 1402, and the data input by the data analysis unit 1402 includes the “form registration command”. Whether it is 1501 or form print data 1502 including “form print command” is analyzed (step S1601).

  When the input data is form registration data 1501, the data analysis unit 1402 outputs “form name” and “form data” included in the input data to the form registration unit 1403, and the form registration unit 1403 These input data are stored in the form registration memory 111 (step S1602), and the process is terminated.

  If the input data is the form print data 1502 in step S1601, the data analysis unit 1402 sends the “form name”, “form embedding instruction”, and “postscript data” included in the input data to the form composition unit 1404. The process proceeds to the form printing process shown in FIG.

  In the form printing process, first, the form composition unit 1404 determines whether or not form data matching the input “form name” exists in the form registration memory 111 (step S1603). If there is no matching form data, the process ends at this point.

  If there is matching form data, this form data is read out and further developed together with the input “retrofitting data”, a form composite image is generated and stored in the image memory 103 (step S1604).

  Subsequently, it is determined whether the input “form embedding instruction” is “Yes” or “No” (step S1605). If it is “Yes”, the form encoding unit 1405 is notified of the “form name”. To instruct encoding of form data.

  The form encoding unit 1405 extracts form data specified by the “form name” notified from the form combining unit 1404 from the form registration memory 111 and encodes it (step S1606).

  Subsequently, the processing of the image composition unit 1406 is activated, and the image composition unit 1406 forms the form data encoded by the form encoding unit 1405 and the form generated by the form composition unit 1404 and stored in the image memory 103. The synthesized image is synthesized and stored in the image memory 103 again (step S1607).

  When the image synthesized by the image synthesizing unit 1406 has been stored in the image memory 103, the processing of the printing unit 1407 is started, and the printing unit 1407 outputs the image stored in the image memory 103 to the printer unit 40. And print.

  With the above processing, in the form synthesis printing process of the print function, not only the selected form data and the retrofitting data are synthesized and printed, but also the selected form data itself is encoded to form a synthesized image. Embedded and printed.

  Further, the document printed with the form data embedded in this manner is read by the image processing apparatus of the present invention to restore the encoded form data, as in the first embodiment. You can print or register forms.

  In other words, the same advantages as in the copy function can be obtained when performing form composite printing in the print function, and the print function often uses the same form data in a plurality of printing devices. Since it is only necessary to distribute the form in which the form data is embedded, a great merit can be obtained in terms of cost compared to the method of recording and distributing in a conventional nonvolatile memory.

It is a block diagram which shows the hardware constitutions of the image processing apparatus of this invention. It is a functional block diagram at the time of encoding and printing a form image. It is a figure which shows the example of a form image, a retrofit image, and a form synthetic | combination image. It is a functional block diagram at the time of decoding and printing a form image. It is a flowchart at the time of form registration processing. It is a figure which shows the example of the operation screen at the time of form registration process. It is a flowchart at the time of form synthetic | combination printing processing. It is a figure which shows the example of the operation screen at the time of form synthetic | combination printing processing. It is a flowchart at the time of form restoration printing processing. It is a figure which shows the example of the operation screen at the time of form restoration printing processing. It is a 1st flowchart at the time of form restoration registration processing. It is a 2nd flowchart at the time of form restoration registration processing. It is a figure which shows the example of the operation screen of a form restoration registration process character. It is a functional block diagram at the time of encoding and printing form data. It is a figure which shows the structure of the data transmitted from an external apparatus. It is a 1st flowchart which shows the process until it inputs data from an external device, forms registration, and form composite printing. It is a 2nd flowchart which shows the process until it inputs data from an external apparatus, forms registration and form composition printing.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Image processing apparatus 2 External apparatus 10 Controller part 20 Panel 30 Scanner part 40 Printer part 101 Panel I / F part 102 Expanding part 103 Image memory 104 Printer I / F part 105 Scanner I / F part 106 External apparatus I / F part 107 CPU
108 ROM
109 RAM
111 Form registration memory

Claims (6)

A form registration means for inputting a form image and storing it in a storage means;
A print instruction supply means for supplying a print instruction including a retrofit image and form designation information;
Form combining means for combining the post-attach image and the form image designated by the form designation information;
Code data generating means for generating code data by encoding the form image;
Code data embedding means for embedding the code data generated by the code data generating means in the form composite image generated by the form combining means;
An image processing apparatus, comprising: a printing unit configured to print a form composite image in which the code data is embedded. Reading means for reading the image;
Detecting means for detecting code data from the image read by the reading means;
Form image generation means for decoding the code data detected by the detection means to generate a form image,
The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the form image generated by the form image generation unit is printed by the printing unit. Reading means for reading the image;
Detecting means for detecting code data from the image read by the reading means;
Form image generation means for decoding the code data detected by the detection means to generate a form image,
2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the form registration unit registers the form image generated by the form image generation unit by the form registration unit.   3. The image according to claim 2, further comprising selection means for selecting printing of either the image read by the reading means or the form image generated by the form image generation means. Processing equipment.   4. The apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising a selection unit for selecting whether the form image generated by the form image generation unit is printed by the printing unit or the form registration is performed by the form registration unit. Image processing device. A form registration means for inputting form data and storing it in the storage means;
A print instruction supply means for supplying a print instruction including the retrofit data and the form designation information;
Form compositing means for expanding and compositing the post data and form data designated by the form designation information into a bitmap image;
Code data generating means for generating code data by encoding the form data;
Code data embedding means for embedding the code data generated by the code data generating means in the form composite image generated by the form combining means;
An image processing apparatus, comprising: a printing unit configured to print a form composite image in which the code data is embedded.

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