JP2011186654A - Information processor, printing control method, printing control program, and recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a load in the case of sorting printed document data. <P>SOLUTION: An information processor 100 is provided with: a page identification part 361 for identifying the division of a page with respect to intermediate data generated as data for printing document data; a keyword detection part 311 for detecting a keyword from a character string expressed as the contents of the page for every page of the intermediate data; a page control part 358 for controlling each page of the intermediate data based on the detected keyword; and a printing control part 360 for controlling the printing of the intermediate data after each page is controlled by the page control part 358. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, a print control method, a print control program, and a recording medium.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, print processing apparatuses have various printing functions in order to respond to user print requests.

  For example, in the technique described in Patent Document 1, print data is generated in a page unit and print intermediate data is generated on a display device, and the intermediate data is displayed in a page unit on a display screen. When page editing such as page replacement or blank page insertion from the user is performed, the display device reflects the edited contents in the intermediate file. As a result, page replacement of print data and blank page insertion are realized.

  As another example, in the technique described in Patent Document 2, a command for performing print control is embedded in document data in advance, and the command is embedded when printing the document data. In addition, printing control such as designation of a printing device as a printing destination and chapter division designation is performed according to the command. As a result, it is possible to easily and appropriately print the print content intended by the user.

  However, in both Patent Literature 1 and Patent Literature 2, the print control to be executed depends on the user's operation. For example, in the technique described in Patent Document 1, the user needs to perform an operation in units of pages, and in Patent Document 2, it is necessary to embed a command for performing print control in advance.

  By the way, in the current business system, there are cases where hundreds of forms of one page are connected and managed as one print job information. When a user outputs such a print job from the system terminal, there is a situation in which a form included in the print job information is sorted as necessary. In such a situation, the techniques described in the cited document 1 and the cited document 2 have a problem that the user needs to manually sort the pages on the screen, which increases the operation burden on the user.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above, and an object thereof is to provide an information processing apparatus, a print control method, a print control program, and a recording medium that reduce a user's operation burden when performing print control. To do.

  In order to solve the above-described problems and achieve the object, an information processing apparatus according to the present invention is an identification unit that identifies a page break for print control data generated as data for printing document data. And, for each page of the print control data, a detection unit that detects a keyword from a character string represented as a text of the page, and controls each page of the print control data based on the detected keyword Control means for outputting, and output means for outputting the print control data after each page is controlled by the control means.

  A print control method according to the present invention is a print control method executed by an information processing apparatus, in which an identification unit generates a page for a print control data generated as data for printing document data. An identification step for identifying a break; a detection unit for detecting a keyword from a character string represented as a text of the page for each page of the print control data; and a control unit for detecting the detected A control step for controlling each page of the print control data based on a keyword; and an output means for outputting the print control data after each page is controlled by the control step. Features.

  The print control program according to the present invention includes an identification step for identifying a page break for print control data generated as data for printing document data, and for each page of the print control data, A detection step of detecting a keyword from a character string represented as a page text, a control step of controlling each page of the print control data based on the detected keyword, and each page by the control step An output step of outputting the print control data after being controlled is executed by a computer.

  A recording medium according to the present invention is a computer-readable storage medium storing the above-described program.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to reduce the burden on the user when sorting document data after printing.

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram illustrating a configuration of a print processing system according to the first embodiment. FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of the information processing apparatus. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a detailed configuration of a printer driver, a data processing setting unit, and a batch print processing unit included in the information processing apparatus. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a setting screen. FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating document data that is a target of print control. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the document data after the document data of FIG. 5 is rearranged according to the keyword. FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a page index list generated by the page index generation unit. FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a modification of the page index list generated by the page index generation unit. FIG. 9 shows the data structure of the intermediate data. FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a data structure of the intermediate data after being divided by the intermediate data dividing unit. FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of a page management list generated by the page control information generation unit. FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating an example of job control information generated by the page control information generation unit. FIG. 13 is a flowchart illustrating a processing procedure from when a print request is received from an application to when a batch print processing request is made to the batch print processing unit in the information processing apparatus according to the first embodiment. FIG. 14 is a flowchart illustrating a processing procedure in the batch print processing unit according to the first embodiment. FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of the information processing apparatus according to the first embodiment.

  Exemplary embodiments of an information processing apparatus, a print control method, a print control program, and a recording medium according to the present invention will be explained below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

(First embodiment)
FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing the configuration of the print processing system according to the first embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the print processing system according to the first embodiment includes an information processing apparatus 100 and a printer 150. It is assumed that the information processing apparatus 100 and the printer 150 are connected via the network 160. Note that the information processing apparatus 100 and the printer 150 may be directly connected by a cable.

  The printer 150 performs printing on the recording paper in response to a request from the information processing apparatus 100. The printer 150 is not limited to a device having a printer function, but may be a multifunction machine including a copy, a facsimile, a scanner, and the like.

  The information processing apparatus 100 uses a PC (Personal Computer) in the present embodiment, but may be any information processing apparatus that can make a document data print request to the printer 150. When an arbitrary application makes a document data print request on the information processing apparatus 100, the printer driver prints from the printer 150 connected via the network 160 in accordance with the print request.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of the information processing apparatus 100. As illustrated in FIG. 2, the information processing apparatus 100 includes an application 201 and an OS 202.

  The application 201 is assumed to be document creation software, figure creation software, spreadsheet software, database software, etc. installed on the OS 202. Then, the application 201 makes a document data print request to the OS 202.

  The OS 202 is a program that manages the hardware and software of the information processing apparatus 100. As typical OSes, Windows (registered trademark), UNIX (registered trademark), and the like are known.

  The OS 202 includes a drawing device interface (I / F) 211, a printer driver 212, a data processing setting unit 213, a batch print processing unit 214, and a spooler 215.

  A drawing device interface (I / F) 211 is an interface for controlling a printer and a display, and corresponds to a GDI (Graphic Device Interface) of Windows (registered trademark). The drawing device interface (I / F) 211 passes print setting information and document data received from the application 201 to the printer driver 212 when the application 201 makes a print request. The print setting information is information indicating settings for printing the print data, and indicates, for example, whether or not to staple.

  The printer driver 212 is a driver that converts document data for which a print request has been made into data that can be processed by the printer 150 to print, so-called printer language (also referred to as page description language, PDL) data, in other words, print data. In the present embodiment, document data is converted into intermediate data, the intermediate data is processed, and then the intermediate data is converted into print data.

  The printer driver 212 controls the printer 150 to output the document data from the document data received from the drawing device interface (I / F) 211. The printer driver 212 includes an intermediate data generation unit 221 and a print data generation unit 222.

  The intermediate data generation unit 221 converts the document data received from the drawing device interface 211 into intermediate data. The intermediate data is temporary storage data that reflects the print layout, and is data that has not been converted into print data, and has a data format that can be changed to an arbitrary data format.

  The print data generation unit 222 generates intermediate data for batch print processing from the intermediate data input from the data processing setting unit 213. Then, the print data generation unit 222 outputs the generated intermediate data for batch printing processing to the batch printing processing unit 214, and then prints the intermediate data passed from the batch printing processing unit 214 to the output destination printer 150. The data is converted into data and transferred to the corresponding spooler 215.

  The intermediate data for batch printing processing is data that can be set and edited for each page of the intermediate data. Accordingly, the print data generation unit 222 may generate intermediate data for batch printing processing in the previous stage (for example, the intermediate data generation unit 221) instead of generating intermediate data for batch printing processing.

  The data processing setting unit 213 generates, from the intermediate data, each page included in the intermediate data and a page index including the conditions for printing, and associates the intermediate data with the page index to perform printing. The data is output to the data generation unit 222.

  The batch print processing unit 214 generates printing intermediate data from the input intermediate data according to the page index, and requests the print data generation unit 222 to perform print processing using the generated intermediate data.

  The spooler 215 outputs the print data generated by the printer driver 212 to the printer 150 for printing.

  In the information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment, it is assumed that intermediate data and print data are printed on a page basis. Next, a configuration for performing printing control of intermediate data in units of pages will be described.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating detailed configurations of the printer driver 212, the data processing setting unit 213, and the batch print processing unit 214 included in the information processing apparatus 100.

  The data processing setting unit 213 includes a setting reception unit 301, a setting storage unit 302, an interface unit 303, an intermediate data input unit 304, a character string extraction unit 305, a page index generation unit 306, and a data output unit 307. .

  The setting reception unit 301 displays a setting screen for setting a process for printing on a monitor screen (not shown). FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a setting screen.

  In the setting screen shown in FIG. 4, the setting reception unit 301 receives the specification of the range of character strings to be detected as keywords from the text of the document data in the items 401 and 402. In the example shown in FIG. 4, a character string from the start keyword “name” to the end keyword “line feed” is detected as a keyword.

  Then, in the check box 403, the setting reception unit 301 receives a setting for whether to print a page for which no keyword has been extracted. Further, the setting reception unit 301 receives a setting of a keyword that does not print a page by using the check box 404 and the item 405.

  Furthermore, a setting for what kind of processing is performed based on the extracted keyword in the items in the area 406 is accepted. For example, the setting reception unit 301 receives a setting as to whether or not to print with the same keyword in the check box 407. In the check box 408, the setting accepting unit 301 accepts whether or not pages with the same keyword are stapled together when printing in the same keyword order.

  The timing at which the setting reception unit 301 displays the setting screen may be any timing. For example, a setting screen may be displayed to perform default settings before performing the printing process, or a setting screen may be displayed when a print request is received from the printer driver 212 during the printing process.

  An example in which the information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment performs print control of document data based on print information indicating the setting received by the setting receiving unit 301 will be described. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing document data to be subjected to print control. As shown in FIG. 5, each page of the document data is a one-page form, and the name of the person in charge is described for each page. In the conventional method, when document data is sorted for each person in charge, it is necessary for the user to visually check the item “name” after sorting the document data and sort it by hand. On the other hand, there is a demand for automatically sorting document data for each person in charge. There is also a user request to rearrange not only the form but also each page of the document data according to the keyword.

  Therefore, the information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment has the characteristic configuration shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, so that when the specification of the range for extracting the keyword is accepted, the document data is determined according to the keyword. Each page can be rearranged.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the document data after the document data of FIG. 5 is rearranged according to the keyword. As illustrated in FIG. 6, the information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment sorts pages for each identical keyword (for example, name) and sets a specific keyword (for example, Yamamoto) based on the setting on the setting screen. ) Is described, or when there is no keyword, it is possible not to print. And each structure for implement | achieving the said process in the information processing apparatus 100 is demonstrated concretely.

  The setting storage unit 302 stores setting information indicating the settings received by the setting receiving unit 301. The setting storage unit 302 uses, for example, information specifying a keyword extraction range, whether or not pages are rearranged for each same keyword, a keyword indicating a page not to be printed, and whether or not pages with the same keyword are grouped as staple information as setting information. Remember.

  The interface unit 303 is an interface for communicating with the printer driver 212.

  The intermediate data input unit 304 performs an input process on the intermediate data generated by the intermediate data generation unit 221 via the interface unit 303.

  The character string extraction unit 305 extracts character string information from the intermediate data input by the intermediate data input unit 304.

  The page index generation unit 306 includes a keyword detection unit 311, and generates a page index list indicating each page included in the intermediate data from the character string information extracted by the character string extraction unit 305. When generating the page index list, the setting information stored in the setting storage unit 302 is used. The page index list is a list including information on each page used when the batch print processing unit 214 performs print control of each page.

  The keyword detection unit 311 uses the setting information stored in the setting storage unit 302 to detect a keyword for each page of intermediate data from the character string information extracted as the text of the intermediate data. When the setting information set on the setting screen shown in FIG. 4 is used, the keyword detecting unit 311 acquires “name” as the start keyword and searches the intermediate data. When the start keyword is detected, “\ r \ n” is acquired as the end keyword, and the character string after the start keyword is searched. When an end keyword is detected, a character string from the start keyword to the end keyword is detected as a keyword for print control. This process is repeated until the last page.

  Then, the page index generation unit 306 generates a page index list including the keywords of each page detected by the keyword detection unit 311.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a page index list generated by the page index generation unit 306. In the example illustrated in FIG. 7, an area 701 surrounded by <PageInfo> tags stores information for each page for each <Page> tag. The index of the <Page> tag indicates the page number, and the <Keyword1> tag for each page indicates a character string corresponding to “Keyword1”. That is, the keyword of each page detected by the keyword detection unit 311 is described in the <Keyword1> tag.

  The <SettingInfo> tag is setting information for page order during printing. Of the area 702 surrounded by the <SettingInfo> tag, the <Sort> tag indicates that the pages are ordered for each keyword stored in the “Keyword1” tag. In addition, stapling is performed for each page having the same keyword. Furthermore, among the settings received by the setting reception unit 301, settings used for print control are also stored in the page index list. For example, the <Except> tag indicates that “Yamamoto” is stored in the “Keyword1” tag or the keyword is not included, and the page is omitted from the print target.

  In the present embodiment, the page index list to be generated is not limited to an example in which keywords for each page are stored as shown in FIG. FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a modified example of the page index list generated by the page index generation unit 306. In the page index list shown in FIG. 8, the 1st and 2nd pages are designated by the <PageIndex> tag within the <Include> tag. That is, the index list shown in FIG. 8 defines that the first page and the second page of the intermediate data are printed. Thus, the page index list can define various print setting information for printing intermediate data.

  Returning to the first embodiment, the data output unit 307 associates the page index list and the intermediate data that is the generation source of the page index list via the interface unit 303 and outputs them to the print data generation unit 222.

  The page index generated by the page index generation unit 306 does not necessarily need to be transmitted in association with each other, and may be controlled to be transmitted to the same directory as the intermediate data through the path. The intermediate data is associated with the file name. For example, when the file name of the intermediate data is “dataA.rpm”, the file name of the page index list may be dataA.xml.

  The print data generation unit 222 generates intermediate data for batch printing processing, outputs the input page index list and intermediate data to the batch printing processing unit 214, and instructs batch printing processing. Do.

  The batch print processing unit 214 includes an interface unit 351, a data input unit 352, an intermediate data division unit 353, a print setting control unit 354, a page control information generation unit 355, a divided data holding unit 356, and a page control unit. 358, a coupling unit 359, and a print control unit 360.

  The interface unit 351 is an interface for communicating with the printer driver 212.

  The data input unit 352 performs input processing on the input page index list and intermediate data from the print data generation unit 222 together with an instruction for batch print processing.

  The intermediate data division unit 353 includes a page identification unit 361, and decomposes the input intermediate data into a job header portion and intermediate data for each page.

  The page identification unit 361 identifies a break between the job header portion and the intermediate data for each page for the input intermediate data. Then, based on the identified break, the intermediate data dividing unit 353 decomposes the intermediate data into a job header portion and intermediate data for each page.

  FIG. 9 shows the data structure of the intermediate data. As shown in FIG. 9, the intermediate data 901 includes “Job Header” and “JobInfo” that are job header portions of the intermediate data, and “Page Header (n)” and “Page Info (n” that are intermediate data for each page. ) "And" Page Data (n) ". Then, the intermediate data dividing unit 353 divides the intermediate data in accordance with the breaks identified by the page identifying unit 361.

  The file name for each page divided by the intermediate data dividing unit 353 is composed of the file name of the intermediate data before division and a suffix indicating the page index. For example, if the file name of the intermediate data before division is “data (.rpm)”, the intermediate file name on the first page is “data_A_001.rpm”, and the intermediate file name on the second page is “data_A_002.rpm”. And

  FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a data structure of the intermediate data after being divided by the intermediate data dividing unit 353. In the example shown in FIG. 10, the file name of the intermediate data before division is “data_A.rpm”. Then, the intermediate data dividing unit 353 sets the file name of the job header part of the divided intermediate data to “data_A_Header.rpm”, and sets the file name of each page of the divided intermediate data to “data_A_ (n)” .rpm ".

  As shown in FIG. 10, it can be confirmed that “data_A_001.rpm” is composed of “Page Header1”, “Page Info1”, and “Page Data1” that are intermediate data of the first page.

  The print setting control unit 354 performs acquisition or change processing of print setting information with respect to the input intermediate data. The print setting performed by the print setting control unit 354 is, for example, the presence or absence of staples.

  The page control information generation unit 355 generates a page management list and job control information from the intermediate data divided by the intermediate data division unit 353 and the input page index list. The page management list is a list for managing the association between a page and a file name indicating intermediate data of the page. The job control information is information for controlling printing of each page of the intermediate data.

  FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of a page management list generated by the page control information generation unit 355. As shown in FIG. 11, the page management list holds a correspondence between a page index and a file name of intermediate data indicating each page.

  FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating an example of job control information generated by the page control information generation unit 355. As shown in FIG. 12, the job control information holds a job ID, a page index, and a print setting in association with each other. The job ID is an ID for identifying a job in which pages to be printed are collected. The page index is a page rearranged as a print target for each job. The print setting is set information used for printing for each job. That is, the job control information holds the order of pages to be printed and the settings used for printing.

  The job control information is generated by the page control information generation unit 355 based on the page management list and the page index list.

  For example, when generating job control information from the page index list shown in FIG. 7, since the keyword is defined as “Keyword1” in the <SettingInfo> tag, the page control information generating unit 355 selects <Keyword1>. Based on a character string enclosed in tags, job control information in which each page is grouped by job is generated. However, if the character string enclosed in the <Keyword1> tag is “Yamamoto” or “(None)”, job control information is generated so as to be omitted from the print target.

  Then, the page control information generation unit 355 interprets the information enclosed in the <SettingInfo> tag of the page index list, interprets the information enclosed in the <PageInfo> tag, summarizes the pages according to the keyword, A job ID is assigned to each page, and job control information is generated by associating print settings for each job. In the job control information shown in FIG. 12, the page with Keyword1 = “Kondo” is the job ID “001”, the page with Keyword1 = “Tanaka” is the job ID “002”, and the page with Keyword1 = “Yamamoto” is the job ID “ 003 ”. Then, by setting the print setting of the page with Keyword 1 = “Yamamoto” to “no printing”, it is excluded from the print target.

  The divided data holding unit 356 holds the intermediate data after being divided by the intermediate data dividing unit 353, the page management list and the job control information generated by the page control information generating unit 355.

  The page control unit 358 includes a page deletion unit 371 and a page rearrangement unit 372, and controls each page of intermediate data. The page control unit 358 according to the present embodiment controls each page according to the job control information with respect to the divided intermediate data held in the divided data holding unit 356. For example, if the job control information indicates information for changing the output order of each page, the page control unit 358 performs control to change the output order of each page.

  The page rearrangement unit 372 rearranges the intermediate data indicating each divided page so that pages for each job, that is, pages containing the same keyword are output together according to the job control information.

  The page deletion unit 371 deletes intermediate data that is not printed according to the job control information.

  The combining unit 359 combines the pages of the intermediate data after being controlled by the page control unit 358. For example, when the page rearrangement unit 372 rearranges the intermediate data for each page for each job, the combining unit 359 displays the job header data and the intermediate data for each page after the rearrangement for each job. Combine and generate intermediate data for print control.

  The print control unit 360 outputs the intermediate data combined by the combining unit 359 to the printer driver 212 via the interface unit 351 and issues a print instruction.

  Next, from when the printer driver 212 in the information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment configured as described above receives a print request from the application 201 to when the batch print processing unit 214 issues a batch print processing request. Processing will be described. FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing the above-described processing procedure in the information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment.

  First, the intermediate data generation unit 221 of the printer driver 212 receives a print request from the application 201 together with document data (step S1301). This print request is made via the drawing device I / F 211.

  Next, the intermediate data generation unit 221 generates intermediate data that can be analyzed from the document data (step S1302). Then, the intermediate data generation unit 221 outputs the generated intermediate data to the data processing setting unit 213. When the intermediate data input unit 304 of the data processing setting unit 213 receives input of intermediate data, the character string extraction unit 305 extracts character string information from the input intermediate data (step S1303).

  Then, the keyword detection unit 311 reads the start keyword stored in the setting storage unit 302, and detects whether or not the start keyword exists in the character string information extracted in step S1303 (step S1304). If it is determined that it does not exist (step S1304: NO), the process proceeds to step S1307.

  If the keyword detection unit 311 detects a start keyword (step S1304: Yes), the end keyword stored in the setting storage unit 302 is read, and the end keyword is searched from character string information after the start keyword ( Step S1305).

  When the end keyword is detected, the keyword detection unit 311 detects a character string from the start keyword to the end keyword as a keyword for print control (step S1306). Thereafter, the keyword detection unit 311 determines whether or not the page where the keyword is detected is the last page (step S1307). If it is determined that the page is not the last page (step S1307: No), the character string information extracted by the character string extraction unit 305 moves to the character string information of the next page (step S1308), and the process starts again from step S1304. To do.

  On the other hand, when the keyword detection unit 311 determines that the page is the last page (step S1307: Yes), the page index generation unit 306 is based on the setting information stored in the setting storage unit 302 and the detected keyword of each page. Thus, a page index list is generated (step S1309). Then, the data output unit 307 outputs the generated page index list to the print data generation unit 222 of the printer driver 212 in association with the generation source intermediate data via the interface unit 303.

  Then, the print data generation unit 222 generates intermediate data for batch print processing (step S1310), and instructs the batch print processing unit 214 together with the generated intermediate data and the page index list (step S1310). Step S1311).

  The batch print processing unit 214 starts processing according to the processing procedure described above. Next, processing by the batch print processing unit 214 according to the present embodiment will be described. FIG. 14 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure in the batch print processing unit 214 according to the present embodiment.

  First, the data input unit 352 performs input processing of intermediate data and a page index list together with an instruction for batch printing processing (step S1401). Next, after the page identifying unit 361 identifies the page break for the input intermediate data, the intermediate data dividing unit 353 divides the page into intermediate data for each page (step S1402).

  Then, the page control information generation unit 355 generates a page management list related to the divided intermediate data and job control information based on the input page index list or the like (step S1403).

  Thereafter, the processes from step S1404 to S1410 are looped by the number of jobs included in the job control information.

  In this loop, the page control unit 358 determines whether or not the print setting of the job is “no printing” (step S1405). If it is determined that “no printing” (step S1405: NO), control is performed so that intermediate data included in the job is not printed. Specifically, the page deletion unit 371 deletes the divided intermediate data indicating the page included in the job from the divided data holding unit 356 (step S1406).

  On the other hand, when the page control unit 358 determines that the print setting is not “no printing” (step S1405: Yes), the page rearrangement unit 372 displays the divided intermediate data indicating the page included in the job. Rearrangement is performed (step S1407). Then, the combining unit 359 combines the rearranged intermediate data to generate intermediate data for printing (step S1408).

  After that, the print control unit 360 makes a print processing request with the generated intermediate data for printing to the print data generation unit 222 (step S1409). At that time, the print control unit 360 makes a print request based on the print setting of the print setting control unit 354 for each intermediate data. Thereby, for example, the presence or absence of stapling can be controlled in units of jobs.

  Through the processing procedure described above, the print data generation unit 222 generates print data from the generated intermediate data for printing, and issues a print request to the printer 150 with the print data. As a result, for the document data, the pages can be rearranged for each job (for each same keyword) and a print request can be made.

  In the information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment, when document data is printed, print control such as order change, replacement, deletion, insertion, and sorting of pages included in the document data is automatically performed. As a result, work efficiency can be improved, and the operation burden on the user can be reduced.

  In the information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment, page sorting, stapling, and the like are performed as page sorting. Since these sorts can be performed automatically, the work efficiency can be improved and the burden on the user can be reduced.

  FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of the information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment. As illustrated in FIG. 15, the information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment includes a CPU 1501, a ROM (Read Only Memory) 1502, a RAM (Random Access Memory) 1503, a communication I / F 1504 connected to the network 160, An HDD 1505, a display unit 1506 such as a display device, and a bus 1507 for connecting them are provided, and a hardware configuration using a normal computer is employed.

  The print control program executed by the information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment is a file in an installable or executable format, such as a CD-ROM, a flexible disk (FD), a CD-R, a DVD (Digital Versatile Disk), or the like. And recorded on a computer-readable recording medium.

  Further, the print control program executed by the information processing apparatus 100 of the present embodiment may be provided by being stored on a computer connected to a network such as the Internet and downloaded via the network. The print control program executed by the information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment may be provided or distributed via a network such as the Internet.

  Further, the print control program according to the present embodiment may be provided by being incorporated in advance in a ROM or the like.

  The print control program executed by the information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment has a module configuration including the above-described units (the printer driver 212, the data processing setting unit 213, and the batch print processing unit 214). As the hardware, the CPU 1501 reads out and executes the print control program from the storage medium, whereby the above-described units are loaded on the main storage device. It is generated on the device.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Information processing apparatus 150 Printer 160 Network 201 Application 211 Drawing device interface 212 Printer driver 213 Data processing setting part 214 Batch print processing part 215 Spooler 221 Intermediate data generation part 222 Print data generation part 301 Setting reception part 302 Setting storage part 303 Interface part 304 Intermediate data input unit 305 Character string extraction unit 306 Page index generation unit 307 Data output unit 311 Keyword detection unit 351 Interface unit 352 Data input unit 353 Intermediate data division unit 354 Print setting control unit 355 Page control information generation unit 356 Holding divided data Section 358 Page control section 359 Combining section 360 Print control section 361 Page identification section 371 Page deletion section 372 Page rearrangement section

JP 2006-127281 A JP 2009-146321 A

Claims (9)

Identifying means for identifying page breaks for print control data generated as data for printing document data;
Detecting means for detecting a keyword from a character string represented as a text of the page for each page of the print control data;
Control means for controlling each page of the print control data based on the detected keyword;
Output means for outputting the print control data after each page is controlled by the control means;
An information processing apparatus comprising: The control means changes the output order in units of pages based on the keywords detected by the detection means for each page of the print control data identified by the identification means.
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1. The control means changes the output order of each page of the print control data identified by the identification means so that pages containing the same keyword are collectively output;
The information processing apparatus according to claim 2. The control means controls whether or not to print based on whether or not a predetermined keyword is detected by the detection means for each page of the print control data identified by the identification means;
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1. A dividing unit for dividing the print control data for each page break identified by the identifying unit;
Combining means for combining the pages of the print control data after being controlled by the control means;
The control means controls the print control data divided for each page by the dividing means;
The information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4. The detecting means detects a character string described in a predetermined item in the page as a keyword;
The information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5. A printing control method executed by an information processing apparatus,
An identification step for identifying a page break with respect to print control data generated as data for printing document data by an identification unit;
A detecting step for detecting, for each page of the print control data, a keyword from a character string represented as a text of the page;
A control step for controlling each page of the print control data based on the detected keyword;
An output step for outputting the print control data after each page is controlled by the control step;
A printing control method comprising: An identification step for identifying a page break for print control data generated as data for printing document data;
A detection step of detecting a keyword from a character string represented as a text of the page for each page of the print control data;
A control step of controlling each page of the print control data based on the detected keyword;
An output step of outputting the print control data after each page is controlled by the control step;
Print control program for causing a computer to execute.   A computer-readable recording medium storing the program according to claim 8.

Images