JP2006146734A - Document processing system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to check the content of a document to be carried out with visualized output by printing etc. based on the document ID by a portable terminal device 2 in a mobile environment using the portable terminal device 2. <P>SOLUTION: A transmission side device 1A inputs a document from a document draft DA, imparts a document ID, generates a document thumbnail image and transmits an e-mail EM which contains a document ID and a thumbnail image to the portable terminal device 2. The portable terminal device 2 displays the thumbnail image of the e-mail EM on a screen 22 and makes a user check the content and responding to a user instruction, transmits an output instruction including the document ID to the output side device 1B. The output side device 1B requires a document relevant to the document ID to a transmission side device 1A through a network N, prints the document acquired from the transmission side device 1A, and outputs the document draft DB. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a document processing technique for identifying a document using a mobile terminal device having a wireless communication function and a screen display function, such as a mobile phone and a PDA, and printing and displaying the document and displaying the document for visualization. In particular, the present invention relates to a technique that enables a document to be visualized and output to be confirmed by a thumbnail image on a portable terminal device.

In recent years, with the evolution and popularization of mobile devices (portable terminal devices) such as mobile phones, PDAs, and notebook PCs, the development of network networks, and the practical use of near field communication such as infrared communication, IEEE802.11, and Bluetooth There is an increasing need to obtain documents even in a mobile environment and print out the documents as necessary.
Document processing devices with multiple functions, such as network communication functions, printers, and scanners, are starting to be installed not only in offices but also in stores and public spaces. Documents can be printed out in such a mobile environment. Several mechanisms have been proposed.

  As a typical system, a document is uploaded to a server on the network, code information corresponding to the document is acquired by the mobile device using the network, and the short distance wireless communication means is used from the mobile device. In some cases, code information is transferred to a printing apparatus, and the printing apparatus acquires a document corresponding to the code information from a server and outputs the document. The code information is assumed to be a document-specific reservation number or URL information for storing the document.

  In addition, a portable information terminal having a wireless transmission / reception unit, a plurality of printing apparatuses having a wireless transmission / reception unit and a storage unit and connected to a wired network, a client terminal connected to the wired network, and a connection to the wired network When a user wants to print a document from a client terminal in a wireless printing system having a management server terminal, the print data is temporarily stored in the management server terminal, and the user is notified that the print data has been stored. Thereafter, an invention has been proposed in which a document is printed from an arbitrary printing apparatus at an arbitrary time using a portable information terminal (see Patent Document 1).

  In addition, the mobile phone accesses the document server 1 by the first wireless means, browses the document on the display, and acquires printer identification information by the second wireless means. Then, when the mobile phone designates a document to be printed among the viewed documents and transmits it to the document server together with the printer identification information, the document server converts the designated document into data that can be printed by the printer, and the mobile phone. Give to. Then, an invention has been proposed in which document data provided by a mobile phone is sent to a printer by second wireless means, and a document is printed by the printer (see Patent Document 2).

  Also, a process management unit that assigns a receiver ID and a caller ID to print data received from the terminal device to the print service server, a data holding unit that stores print data and identification data, and a data storage that searches for print data As a system configuration including a search unit and a terminal device for designating identification data to the printer, when the identification data is input, the print service server displays print data corresponding to the identification data notified from the data storage search unit. There has been proposed an invention for searching and transferring print data corresponding to a printer that has notified the identification data (see Patent Document 3).

In addition, the mobile terminal accesses the server system, the mobile terminal acquires the print output information from the server system, stores the print output information, and is connected to the image forming apparatus. An invention has been proposed in which print output information is transmitted, and a document image is formed and output based on the print output information by an image forming apparatus (see Patent Document 4).
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2002-342057 JP 2003-114773 A Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2002-032205 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2003-084925

  Even if it is desired to use the most popular mobile phone as the mobile terminal device (mobile device), even if the document cannot be handled directly due to restrictions on the mobile device, the mobile phone uses these document-specific identifiers (ID information). By embedding it in an electronic format that can be handled and transferring it using a short-distance wireless communication means such as an infrared communication function of a mobile phone or Bluetooth, it is possible to easily transfer a document ID to a printing device and print out the document. Conceivable.

As described above, a case in which a multifunction peripheral having a scanner, a printer function, and the like has a mechanism for transmitting document-specific ID information to a mobile device such as a mobile phone. For example, a document is read by a scanner, a document ID is generated and assigned to the document, only the generated document ID is transmitted to the mobile device, and the mobile device inputs the document ID to the multifunction device as necessary. Thus, a mechanism for printing out a document can be assumed.
In addition, by embedding the document ID in an electronic format that can be interpreted by the mobile phone and transmitting it to the mobile phone by e-mail, it is possible to allow the user who owns the mobile phone to receive the document ID from anywhere. .

  With such a mechanism, even if the document is in a format that cannot be handled by a mobile phone, or even if the document file size is too large to be handled by e-mail, for example, a printing device on the go It is possible to print and take out a document.

  However, in the above mechanism, there is a problem that the user does not know what kind of document can be pulled out because there is no document ID and no information regarding the content of the document transmitted to the mobile phone. In particular, when a plurality of document IDs are transmitted, or when the mobile phone has a plurality of document IDs, there is a problem that the document to be extracted is not known.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-described conventional circumstances, and in a mobile environment using a portable terminal device, it is possible to easily confirm the content of a document visualized and output by printing or the like based on a document identifier on the portable terminal device. The purpose is to be able to.

  The present invention transmits a document identifier to a portable terminal device having a wireless communication function, and outputs the document identifier from the portable terminal device to the document processing device by wireless communication, infrared communication, cable connection communication, etc. In addition to being implemented as a document processing system that visualizes and outputs a document identified by a document identifier from a device by printing or screen display, the document processing device, portable terminal device, and document processing device that constitute the document processing system are configured by a computer And a document processing method implemented by a document processing system.

  In a document processing system that is a typical aspect of the present invention, in a document processing apparatus, a document input unit scans an original, reads from a database, accesses a Web site, and acquires a creation operation from a user. Then, the document is input by, for example, and the identifier transmitting means transmits a thumbnail image indicating the content of the document to the portable terminal device together with the document identifier for specifying the document.

Here, if the input document has an identifier or a thumbnail image generated in advance, these identifiers and thumbnail images can be used. However, a document identifier is assigned to the input document. The document processing apparatus may be provided with an identifier assigning means for generating a thumbnail image and a thumbnail generating means for generating a thumbnail image from the input document. In this way, the present invention can be applied to a document that has not been previously standardized. Can be processed using the identifier or thumbnail image as a key.
The thumbnail image may be transmitted by an indirect method via a server, for example, by transmitting the identifier of the thumbnail image together with the identifier to the portable terminal device, and the portable terminal device using the identifier of the thumbnail image as the identifier of the thumbnail image. A mode in which a thumbnail image is acquired from the server based on the server may be used.
In addition, transmission to the mobile terminal device may be performed by direct wireless communication with the mobile terminal device, but generally wirelessly communicates with the mobile terminal device via a wired network such as a public network and a base station.

In the portable terminal device, when the wireless reception unit receives the document identifier and the thumbnail image, the display unit displays the thumbnail image on the screen according to, for example, a user operation, and the output instruction output unit responds to the user operation. An output instruction with a document identifier is output to the document processing apparatus.
This output instruction can be output by various methods. For example, when there is a document processing apparatus near the user, short-range wireless communication such as infrared communication or Bluetooth, or wired communication in which both are connected by a cable. The user can use a familiar document processing apparatus as a document output side apparatus.

In the document processing apparatus, when the output instruction input unit receives the output instruction from the portable terminal device, the document output unit prints the document specified by the document identifier according to the output instruction as a document. It is visualized and output by a method such as displaying or projecting a document by a projector.
Therefore, the user of the mobile terminal device can confirm the document to be visualized and output based on the document identifier with the thumbnail image in advance.

  Here, the document processing apparatus may be configured as an integrated apparatus, or may be configured to be separated into, for example, a transmission-side apparatus installed in an office and an output-side apparatus installed in a destination place, for example. . That is, the transmission side device includes a document transmission unit that transmits the document specified by the document identifier to the output side device in addition to the document input unit and the identifier transmission unit. The output side device includes the output instruction input unit and the document output unit. In addition to the means, the document receiving means for receiving the document from the transmission side device in response to the request including the document identifier is provided, and the output side device sends the document to the transmission side device in accordance with the output instruction input from the portable terminal device. In response to the request, the transmission-side apparatus may transmit the corresponding document to the output-side apparatus in response to the request, and the document instructed to be output from the output-side apparatus may be visualized and output.

  Further, in the present invention, transmission to the mobile terminal device is preferably performed in an e-mail format, so that necessary information can be transmitted from the document processing device to the mobile terminal device using an already established system or protocol. Can be sent.

  According to the present invention, in a mobile environment using a mobile terminal device, the content of a document visualized and output by printing or the like based on a document identifier can be easily confirmed by a mobile terminal device using a thumbnail image. Can obtain the desired document.

The present invention will be specifically described based on embodiments.
1 to 3 show different embodiments of the document processing system according to the present invention.
The example shown in FIG. 1 is a system configuration in which the document processing apparatus 1 is an integrated apparatus configuration. The document processing apparatus 1 has a scanner function for optically reading a document original DA, a network communication function such as an electronic mail EM, an infrared communication, This is a multi-function peripheral having a short-range wireless communication function such as Bluetooth, a printer function for printing a document and outputting a document original DB.
In addition, a mobile terminal device (a mobile phone in the following example) 2 including a mobile phone, a PDA, and the like includes a wireless communication function for performing communication such as an e-mail EM, an operation means 21 such as an operation button for receiving user operation input, and a thumbnail image. The display means 22 which displays the screen which displays etc. is provided.

  In the example shown in FIG. 1, the document processing apparatus 1 reads and inputs a document from a document original DA, assigns a document identifier (ID) to the document, generates a thumbnail image of the document, and generates a document ID. And e-mail EM including the thumbnail image are transmitted to the mobile terminal device 2. Then, when an output instruction including a document ID is input from the mobile terminal device 2 through short-range wireless communication, the document processing apparatus 1 prints a document corresponding to the document ID and outputs a document original DB.

The example shown in FIG. 2 has a system configuration in which the document processing apparatus 1 is separated into a transmission-side apparatus 1A and an output-side apparatus 1B connected by a network N. The transmission-side apparatus 1A includes a scanner that optically reads a document document DA. The output side apparatus 1B has a short-range wireless communication function, a printer function for printing a document and outputting a document original DB, and the like.
In addition, these can be comprised with the multifunctional machine which has the same function.

  In the example shown in FIG. 2, the transmitting apparatus 1A reads and inputs a document from the document original DA, gives a document identifier (ID) to the document, generates a thumbnail image of the document, and generates a document ID. And e-mail EM including the thumbnail image are transmitted to the mobile terminal device 2. Then, when the output instruction including the document ID is input from the portable terminal device 2 by the short-range wireless communication, the output side device 1B requests the document corresponding to the document ID from the transmission side device 1A through the network N. In response to this, the document received from the transmission side apparatus 1A through the network N is printed and the document original DB is output.

In the example shown in FIG. 3, the document processing apparatus 1 is separated into a transmission-side apparatus 1A and an output-side apparatus 1B that are connected via a network N as in the above example, and a server S that mediates transmission of thumbnail images is connected to the network. This is a system configuration provided in Turk N.
In the example shown in FIG. 3, the transmitting apparatus 1A reads and inputs a document from the document original DA, assigns a document identifier (ID) to the document, generates a thumbnail image of the document, and generates the thumbnail. The image is registered in the server S, and an electronic mail EM including a document ID and a thumbnail image identifier (URL) is transmitted to the mobile terminal device 2.

In this example, the mobile terminal device 2 can acquire the corresponding thumbnail image from the server S through the network N based on the thumbnail image URL received together with the document ID, and can display the thumbnail image on the screen 22.
Then, when the output instruction including the document ID is input from the portable terminal device 2 by the short-range wireless communication, the output side device 1B requests the document corresponding to the document ID from the transmission side device 1A through the network N. In response to this, the document received from the transmission side apparatus 1A through the network N is printed and the document original DB is output.
The document input to the server S by the transmitting apparatus 1A is transmitted and registered through the network N, and the output apparatus 1B requests the server S for the document corresponding to the document ID and prints it out. Good.

FIG. 4 shows a functional configuration of the document processing apparatus 1 constituting the system shown in FIG.
The document processing apparatus 1 includes a document input unit 11, an ID assigning unit 12, a document holding unit 13, a thumbnail generation unit 14, an e-mail creation unit 15, an e-mail transmission unit 16, an output instruction input unit 17, and a document output unit 18. ing.
FIG. 4 shows thumbnail registration means 10 for transmitting and registering the generated thumbnail image to the server S. This means 10 is used when the document processing apparatus is applied to the system of FIG.

The document input means 11 is a means for inputting a document. In the system shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the document input means 11 is composed of a scanner means and optically reads a document original DA and inputs a document (electronic data). .
The document input means 11 includes various methods for capturing document data, such as a mechanism for reading and inputting a document (electronic data) from a database, and a mechanism for acquiring and inputting a document (electronic data) by accessing a website on a network. Further, when the document processing apparatus 1 (transmission side apparatus 1A) is configured by a personal computer as in the system shown in FIG. 3, the personal computer generates a document by user operation input and uses it as internal data. 1A document editing function can be used.

The ID assigning means 12 is a means for assigning a unique document ID (identifier) to the document input by the document input means 11, and each input document is specified by the document ID.
The document holding unit 13 is a storage unit that stores each input document together with a document ID, and holds the document for output processing to be described later.
The thumbnail generation unit 14 is a unit that generates a thumbnail image that can be displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal device 2 from the input document. For example, the thumbnail generation unit 14 generates a thumbnail image by reducing the input document electronic image data by vertical and horizontal equal magnification. .

The e-mail creating means 15 is a means for transmitting the input document ID and thumbnail image of the document to the mobile terminal device 2. In this example, the e-mail creating means 15 adds the document ID and thumbnail to the e-mail with the mobile terminal device 2 as the recipient address. Send including the image.
More specifically, as shown in FIG. 8, the document ID is described in the body 40 of the email EM, and the thumbnail image is included in the attached file 41 attached to the email body 40. By adopting the electronic mail format in this way, it is possible to transmit the document ID and the thumbnail image using an electronic mail system that is widely used for data communication with the mobile terminal device.

  Here, the document ID (for example, abcd) is enclosed in a delimiter (?), Such as “? Abcd? (ID)”, or an identification symbol (ID ) And the like, and it is preferable that the portable terminal device 2 that has received the description can easily extract the document ID (abcd) by distinguishing it from other descriptions.

In addition, it is assumed that even when an e-mail is transmitted due to inconsistencies in the standard of the e-mail system, the body part 43 is deleted and only the header part 42 is received by the other party. In order to cope with such a situation, it is preferable to describe the document ID in the header part 42.
In this case, it is preferable to describe the document ID in the sender address field or the title field. Further, the document ID is received by enclosing it with a delimiter or adding an identification symbol (ID) as described above. It is preferable that the portable terminal device 2 can easily extract the document ID from other descriptions.

Further, the document ID may be described or embedded in the thumbnail image and transmitted. When the document ID is embedded in the thumbnail image, for example, the luminance and density of the pixels constituting the thumbnail image are determined by the document ID code. A known method such as changing may be used.
When the thumbnail image ID is transmitted as in the system of FIG. 3, the thumbnail image ID may be described in the e-mail main body 40 as described above, thereby making the attached file 41 unnecessary. it can.

The e-mail transmission means 16 transmits the e-mail addressed to the portable terminal device 2 configured as described above to the portable terminal device 2 via a public line or the like.
The output instruction input unit 17 is a short-range wireless communication unit such as an infrared communication device, and receives an output instruction from the portable terminal device 2.
The document output means 18 is a means for visualizing and outputting the document on the screen or the like. In this example, the document is printed and the document original DB is discharged.

  Here, in this example, the thumbnail registration means 10, the e-mail creation means 15, and the e-mail transmission means included in the document processing means 1 are executed by executing the program according to the present invention on computer hardware such as a multifunction machine or a personal computer. 16, functional units 10 to 19 such as an output instruction input unit 17 and a document output unit 18 are configured.

FIG. 5 shows a functional configuration of the mobile terminal device 2 constituting the system shown in FIGS. 1 to 3.
The portable terminal device 2 includes an operation unit 21, a display unit 22, a wireless communication unit 23, an output instruction output unit 24, and a near field communication unit 25.
5 shows thumbnail acquisition means 20 for acquiring the thumbnail image generated in the server S, the means 20 is used when the mobile terminal device 2 is applied to the system of FIG.

The wireless communication unit 23 is a unit that wirelessly receives an electronic mail from the document processing apparatus 1 (the transmission side apparatus 1A) via the base station.
A thumbnail image is extracted from the received electronic mail by the display means 22 and displayed on the screen, and a document ID is extracted by the output instruction means 24 and included in the output instruction.

The output instruction output means 24 generates an output instruction including a document ID in response to a user instruction from the operation means. When the output instruction is generated, the short-range communication means 25 generates a document processing apparatus ( To the output instruction input means 17).
When applied to the system of FIG. 3, the thumbnail acquisition unit 20 extracts a thumbnail URL from the received e-mail, transmits a request including the thumbnail URL to the server S by the wireless communication unit 23, and the corresponding thumbnail. The image is acquired, and the display means 22 displays the thumbnail image on the screen.

With the document processing device 1 and the portable terminal device 2 having the above functions, the system shown in FIG. 1 operates as follows.
First, in the document processing apparatus 1, the document input unit 11 reads and inputs a document from the document manuscript DA, the ID assigning unit 12 assigns a document ID to the document, and the document is associated with the document ID. Hold by the holding means 13. Also, the thumbnail generation unit 14 generates a thumbnail image from the document, the email creation unit 15 creates an email EM including the thumbnail image and the document ID, and the email transmission unit 16 creates the email EM. Is transmitted to the mobile terminal device 2.

In the mobile terminal device 2, the wireless communication unit 23 receives the electronic mail EM, and the display unit 22 displays the thumbnail image extracted from the electronic mail on the screen of the mobile terminal device 2. As a result, the portable terminal device 2 can confirm a document that can be output as a document.
Then, when the user instructs the short-range communication means 25 to the document processing apparatus 1 to output the document from the operation means 21, the output instruction output means 24 creates an output instruction including the document ID extracted from the received electronic mail EM, The short-range communication means 25 transmits the output instruction to the document processing apparatus 1 by short-range wireless communication.

Then, in the document processing apparatus 1, the output instruction from the mobile communication terminal apparatus 2 is received by the output instruction input unit 17, and the corresponding document is stored in the document based on the document ID included in the output instruction received by the document output unit 17. Obtained from the means 13, prints the document and discharges the document original DB.
Therefore, the user of the mobile terminal device 2 can obtain a desired document as the document DB after confirming the contents with the thumbnail images.

6 and 7 show functional configurations of the transmission side apparatus 1A and the output side apparatus 1B that constitute the system shown in FIG. 2 or FIG.
The transmission-side device 1A and the output-side device 1B share the functions provided in the document processing device 1, and in addition to this, the transmission-side device 1A is a document that includes a document ID from the output-side device 1B. A document request receiving unit 51 that receives a request through the network N, and a document transmission unit 52 that acquires a document with the document ID from the document holding unit 13 in response to the request and transmits the document to the output side apparatus 1B through the network N. The output side apparatus 1B creates a document request including the document ID of the output instruction received from the portable terminal apparatus 2 by the output instruction input means 17, and transmits the document request to the transmission side apparatus 1A through the network N. To the transmission means 53 and the transmission side apparatus 1A And receive documents over the network N, and a document receiving unit 54 to be output to the document output means 18.

That is, the transmission side apparatus 1A includes a thumbnail registration unit 10, a document input unit 11, an ID assignment unit 12, a document holding unit 13, a thumbnail generation unit 14, an e-mail creation unit 15, an e-mail transmission unit 16, and a document request reception unit. 51, a document transmission means 52 is provided.
Further, the output side apparatus 1B includes an output instruction input unit 17, a document output unit 18, a document request transmission unit 53, and a document reception unit 54.

The system operates in the following manner in FIG. 2 by the transmission side device 1A and the output side device 1B and the portable terminal device 2 having the above functions.
First, in the sending apparatus 1A, the document input means 11 reads and inputs a document from the document manuscript DA, the ID assigning means 12 assigns a document ID to the document, and the document and the document ID are associated with each other. Hold by the holding means 13. Also, the thumbnail generation unit 14 generates a thumbnail image from the document, the email creation unit 15 creates an email EM including the thumbnail image and the document ID, and the email transmission unit 16 creates the email EM. Is transmitted to the mobile terminal device 2.

In the mobile terminal device 2, the wireless communication unit 23 receives the electronic mail EM, and the display unit 22 displays the thumbnail image extracted from the electronic mail on the screen of the mobile terminal device 2. As a result, the user of the portable terminal device 2 can confirm a document that can be output as a document.
Then, when the user instructs the short distance communication unit 25 to the output side apparatus 1B to output the document from the operation unit 21, the output instruction output unit 24 creates an output instruction including the document ID extracted from the received electronic mail EM, The short-range communication means 25 transmits the output instruction to the output side device 1B by short-range wireless communication.

Then, in the output side apparatus 1B, the output instruction input means 17 receives the output instruction from the portable communication terminal apparatus 2, and the document request is transmitted by the document ID included in the output instruction received by the document request transmission means 53. Send to.
In the transmission side apparatus 1A, the document request receiving unit 51 receives the document request, acquires a corresponding document from the document holding unit 13 based on the document ID included in the document request received by the document transmitting unit 52, and the document holding unit 13 Is transmitted to the output side apparatus 1B.

In the output side apparatus 1B, the document receiving unit 54 receives the document from the transmission side apparatus 1A, prints the document received by the document output unit 17, and discharges the document original DB.
Therefore, the user of the mobile terminal device 2 can obtain a desired document as the document DB after confirming the contents with the thumbnail images.

The system operates in the following manner in FIG. 3 by the transmission side device 1A and the output side device 1B and the portable terminal device 2 having the functions as described above.
First, in the sending apparatus 1A, the document input means 11 reads and inputs a document from the document manuscript DA, the ID assigning means 12 assigns a document ID to the document, and the document and the document ID are associated with each other. Hold by the holding means 13. Further, the thumbnail generation unit 14 generates a thumbnail image from the document, and the thumbnail registration unit 10 registers the thumbnail image in the server S through the network N, and acquires the URL of the registered thumbnail image. In the sending apparatus 1A, the e-mail creating unit 15 creates an e-mail EM including the URL of the thumbnail image and the document ID, and the e-mail sending unit 16 sends the e-mail EM to the portable terminal device 2. .

In the portable terminal device 2, the wireless communication unit 23 receives the email EM, the thumbnail acquisition unit 20 acquires the corresponding thumbnail image from the server S based on the thumbnail image URL extracted from the email, and the display unit 22 The acquired thumbnail image is displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal device 2. As a result, the user of the portable terminal device 2 can confirm a document that can be output as a document.
Then, when the user instructs the short distance communication unit 25 to the output side apparatus 1B to output the document from the operation unit 21, the output instruction output unit 24 creates an output instruction including the document ID extracted from the received electronic mail EM, The short-range communication means 25 transmits the output instruction to the output side device 1B by short-range wireless communication.

Then, in the output side apparatus 1B, the output instruction input means 17 receives the output instruction from the portable communication terminal apparatus 2, and the document request is transmitted by the document ID included in the output instruction received by the document request transmission means 53. Send to.
In the transmission side apparatus 1A, the document request receiving unit 51 receives the document request, acquires a corresponding document from the document holding unit 13 based on the document ID included in the document request received by the document transmitting unit 52, and the document holding unit 13 Is transmitted to the output side apparatus 1B.

In the output side apparatus 1B, the document receiving unit 54 receives the document from the transmission side apparatus 1A, prints the document received by the document output unit 17, and discharges the document original DB.
Therefore, the user of the mobile terminal device 2 can obtain a desired document as the document DB after confirming the contents with the thumbnail images. For example, when the transmitting device 1A is installed in the office and the output device 1B is installed at the user's destination, the user having the mobile terminal device 2 confirms the contents of the document input in the office. You can get on the go above.

1 is a configuration diagram of a document processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a document processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a document processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a document processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a block diagram of the portable terminal device which concerns on one Example of this invention. It is a block diagram of the transmission side apparatus which concerns on one Example of this invention. It is a block diagram of the output side apparatus which concerns on one Example of this invention. It is a block diagram of the electronic mail which concerns on one Example of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

1: Document processing device, 1A: Transmission side device,
1B: output side device, 2: portable terminal device,
10: Thumbnail registration means, 11: Document input means,
12: ID assigning means, 13: Document holding means,
14: Thumbnail generation means, 15: E-mail creation means,
16: E-mail transmission means, 17: Output instruction input means,
18: Document output means, 20: Thumbnail acquisition means,
21: operation means, 22: display means,
23: wireless communication means, 24: output instruction output means,
25: Near field communication means, 41: Attached file,
42: Header part 43: Text part
51: Document request receiving means,
52: Document transmission means, 53: Document request transmission means,
54: Document receiving means, DA, DB: Document EM: E-mail, S: Server,

Claims (11)

Document processing for transmitting a document identifier to a portable terminal device having a wireless communication function and outputting the document identifier from the portable terminal device to the document processing device, thereby outputting the document specified by the document identifier from the document processing device A system,
The document processing apparatus includes:
A document input means for inputting a document;
Identifier transmitting means for transmitting a thumbnail image indicating the document contents together with the document identifier to the mobile terminal device;
An output instruction input means for receiving an output instruction with a document identifier;
A document output means for visualizing and outputting the document specified by the document identifier in response to the output instruction;
With
The portable terminal device
Wireless receiving means for receiving the document identifier and the thumbnail image;
Display means for displaying the received thumbnail image on the screen;
Output instruction output means for outputting an output instruction with a document identifier in response to an operation input from a user,
A document processing system that enables a document to be visualized and output to be confirmed with a thumbnail image on a portable terminal device. The document processing system of claim 1,
The document processing device is configured to be separated into a transmission side device and an output side device,
In addition to the document input unit and the identifier transmission unit, the transmission side device includes a document transmission unit that transmits a document corresponding to the document identifier to the output side device.
In addition to the output instruction input unit and the document output unit, the output side device includes a document reception unit that receives a document requested by a document identifier from the transmission side device. The document processing system according to claim 1 or 2,
The identifier transmitting means transmits a document identifier and a thumbnail image to a portable terminal device by e-mail. The document processing system according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
The document processing apparatus further includes an identifier assigning unit that assigns a document identifier to the document input from the document input unit. The document processing system according to any one of claims 1 to 4,
The document processing system further includes a thumbnail generation unit that generates a thumbnail image from a document input from the document input unit. Wireless receiving means for receiving a document identifier and a thumbnail image; display means for displaying the received thumbnail image on a screen; output instruction output means for outputting an output instruction with a document identifier in response to an operation input from a user; A document processing apparatus that constitutes a document processing system that makes it possible to confirm a document to be visualized and output with a thumbnail image on the mobile terminal apparatus,
A document input means for inputting a document;
Identifier transmitting means for transmitting a thumbnail image indicating the document contents together with the document identifier to the mobile terminal device;
An output instruction input means for receiving an output instruction with a document identifier;
A document output means for visualizing and outputting the document specified by the document identifier in response to the output instruction;
A document processing apparatus comprising: The document processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein
The document processing device is configured to be separated into a transmission side device and an output side device,
In addition to the document input unit and the identifier transmission unit, the transmission side device includes a document transmission unit that transmits a document with a document identifier to the output side device.
In addition to the output instruction input unit and the document output unit, the output side device includes a document reception unit that receives a document with a document identifier from a transmission side device. Document input means for inputting a document, identifier transmission means for transmitting a thumbnail image indicating the document contents together with the document identifier to the portable terminal device, output instruction input means for receiving an output instruction accompanied by the document identifier, and in response to the output instruction A portable terminal device constituting a document processing system that makes it possible to confirm a document to be visualized and output by a thumbnail image, together with a document output device that visualizes and outputs a document specified by a document identifier. ,
Wireless receiving means for receiving a document identifier and a thumbnail image;
Display means for displaying the received thumbnail image on the screen;
An output instruction output means for outputting an output instruction accompanied with a document identifier in response to an operation input from a user. Wireless receiving means for receiving a document identifier and a thumbnail image; display means for displaying the received thumbnail image on a screen; output instruction output means for outputting an output instruction with a document identifier in response to an operation input from a user; , And a portable terminal device comprising a computer and a document processing device that makes it possible to confirm a document to be visualized and output with a thumbnail image on the portable terminal device,
On the computer,
Identifier transmitting means for transmitting a thumbnail image indicating the document contents together with the document identifier to the mobile terminal device;
An output instruction input means for receiving an output instruction with a document identifier;
A document output means for visualizing and outputting the document specified by the document identifier in response to the output instruction;
The document processing program characterized by comprising. The document processing device transmits a thumbnail image indicating the document content together with the document identifier to the mobile terminal device,
The mobile terminal device wirelessly receives the document identifier and the thumbnail image, displays the thumbnail image on the screen, and further outputs an output instruction with the document identifier in response to an operation input from the user,
When a document processing apparatus receives an output instruction accompanied by a document identifier, the document processing method visualizes and outputs the document specified by the document identifier. The document processing method according to claim 10.
A document processing method, comprising: generating a document identifier for an input document; generating a thumbnail image from the document; and transmitting the document identifier and the thumbnail image to a mobile terminal device.

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