JP2007179453A5

JP2007179453A5 -

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Publication number: JP2007179453A5
Application number: JP2005379598A
Authority: JP
Filing date: 2005-12-28
Publication date: 2009-05-21
Anticipated expiration: 2025-12-28

Claims

Attribute information acquisition means for acquiring application attribute information indicating an application that prints the document data instructed to print from the attribute information of the print information including the document data instructed to be printed ;
Based on the obtained application attribute information in the attribute information acquiring means, the printing source application and determines application determining means for determining whether or not a predetermined application,
A print log collection apparatus comprising: a determination unit that determines a data format of a print log to be collected for the print information on the condition of a determination result by the application determination unit .

Text acquisition means for acquiring text information of a document instructed to be printed from the print information ;
Further comprising: transmission means for transmitting the text information acquired by the text acquisition means to the print management apparatus as a print log;
When the determination unit determines text information as a data format of a print log on the condition of a determination result by the application determination unit, the transmission unit transmits the text information as a print log to the print management apparatus. The print log collection device according to claim 1.

Image acquisition means for acquiring image information of a document instructed to be printed from the print information ;
A first condition determination unit that determines whether the amount of information of the image information acquired by the image acquisition unit satisfies a first condition ;
When the application determining unit determines that the printing source application is a predetermined application, and the first condition determining unit determines that the information amount of the image information satisfies the first condition, the determining unit 3. The print log collecting apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the print log data format determines to use both text information and image information as a data format of the print log.

A character recognition unit that acquires text information by recognizing a character from the image information when the information amount of the image information is determined not to satisfy the first condition by the first condition determination unit;
A second condition determination unit that determines whether the amount of text information acquired by the character recognition unit satisfies a second condition;
The application determination unit determines that the printing source application is a predetermined application, the first condition determination unit determines that the information amount of the image information does not satisfy a first condition, and the second condition If the condition determination means determines that the amount of information of the text information satisfies the second condition, the determination means determines to use the text information obtained by the character recognition means as the data format of the print log print log collecting apparatus according to claim 3, characterized in that the.

The application determination unit determines that the printing source application is a predetermined application, the first condition determination unit determines that the information amount of the image information does not satisfy a first condition, and the second condition When it is determined by the condition determining means that the information amount of the text information does not satisfy the second condition, the determining means acquires the text information acquired by the text acquiring means as the data format of the print log and the image acquisition 5. The print log collecting apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein both of the image information acquired by the means are determined to be used .

A print log collection method in a print log collection device,
An attribute information acquisition step in which attribute information acquisition means of the print log collection device acquires application attribute information indicating the printing source application of the document data instructed to print from the attribute information of print information including the document data instructed to print When,
An application determination unit that determines whether or not the printing source application is a predetermined application based on the application attribute information acquired in the attribute information acquisition step;
A determination step in which a determination unit of the print log collection device determines a data format of a print log to be collected for the print information on the condition of the determination result in the application determination step;
A print log collecting method comprising:

A program executed by the print log collection device,
The print log collecting device;
Attribute information acquisition means for acquiring application attribute information indicating an application that prints the document data instructed to print from the attribute information of the print information including the document data instructed to be printed;
Application determination means for determining whether or not the printing source application is a predetermined application based on the application attribute information acquired by the attribute information acquisition means;
A determination unit that determines a data format of a print log to be collected for the print information on the condition of a determination result by the application determination unit;
A program characterized by functioning as