JP2014112317A - Document reader, control method of document reader, and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a document reader which can specifies document form from a scanned script and change an item written in the document form.SOLUTION: A document reader includes a document form storage means which stores a document form in which changeable item information is set, a document form specifying means which specifies the document form used in the paper document from the read paper document, a changeable item display means which displays a changeable item set in the document form specified by the document form specifying means so that the item can be changed, a change content receiving means which receives a change content to the item, and a compositing means which composes the change content to the item received by the change content receiving means in the specified document form.

Description

  The present invention relates to a technique for specifying a form by reading a document, changing the contents of the form, and outputting the form.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a document such as a form is read by a scanner, and the read content is output to a printing or FAX apparatus.

  Patent Document 1 proposes a description in which a document form is registered, a feature value of the read document and the registered document is extracted, and whether or not the same form is determined.

JP 2011-123598 A

  After identifying the same form, you may want to reuse the form. For example, the date that will be written even if the manuscript is in the same format, such as an application form or FAX transmission form, and the name to fill in The form may be different, and the form may not be reused as it is.

  However, although it is possible to specify a form in Patent Document 1, it is not possible to change the date written in the scanned document, the name to be written, or the like and output it.

  Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a document reading device that can specify a form from a scanned document and change items described in the form.

  Form form storage means for storing a form form in which changeable item information is set, form form specifying means for specifying the form form used for the paper document from the read paper document, and form form specifying means The changeable item display means for displaying the changeable items set in the form specified by the item form so as to be changeable, the change content acceptance means for accepting the change content to the item, and the change content acceptance means Synthesizing means for synthesizing the contents changed to the item into the specified form form.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a document reading apparatus that can specify a form from a scanned document and change items described in the form.

1 is a system configuration diagram showing a functional configuration of a document reading apparatus of the present invention. It is a block diagram which shows the hardware constitutions of the document reading apparatus of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the registration process of the form form in embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the selection process of the editable item in embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the registration process of the editable item in embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the edit process of the form form in embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the output process of the read document in embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the detection process of the editable item in embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the replacement process of the editable item in embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the paper document to scan (read) in the Example of this invention. It is a screen which shows an example of the main menu in the Example of this invention. It is an example of the new reading screen in the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the registration screen of the editable item in the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the edit screen of the item of the form form in the Example of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the screen when the difference of the form form in the Example of this invention is detected. It is a figure which shows an example of the database in the Example of this invention.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing a functional configuration of a document reading apparatus according to the present invention.

  As shown in the figure, the document reading apparatus 100 (for example, a copying machine) has the following functions.

  The reading unit 101 can scan and digitize a document and output it. The form detection unit 102 detects whether the document scanned by the user and the form stored in the form form database are the same.

  The form registration unit 103 performs processing for registering a document scanned by the user as a form form. The registered form can be edited by the form editing unit 106. The editable item selection unit 104 and the editable item registration unit 105 specify an area of items that can be edited and register attributes of edit contents for the form forms handled by the form registration unit and the form editing unit. Do.

  A form output unit 107 outputs a document scanned by the reading unit 101. The output manuscript includes one whose items are changed by the item editing unit 109 or the like. The editable item detection unit detects editable items set in the form form detected by the form detection unit, and the item editing unit 109 edits the items detected by the editable item detection unit 108. Is what you do.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration of the document reading apparatus according to the present invention.

  In FIG. 2, reference numeral 316 denotes a controller unit that is connected to a scanner 314 that functions as an image input device and a printer 312 that functions as an image output device, and is connected to a LAN or a public line (WAN) (for example, PSTN or ISDN). By doing so, image data and device information are input and output.

  In the controller unit 316, reference numeral 301 denotes a CPU, which is a processor that controls the entire system. A RAM 302 is a system work memory for the CPU 301 to operate, and is also a program memory for recording a program and an image memory for temporarily recording image data.

  A ROM 303 stores a system boot program and various control programs. An external storage device (hard disk drive (HDD)) 304 stores various programs for controlling the system, image data, and the like.

  An operation unit interface (operation unit I / F) 307 is an interface unit with the operation unit (UI) 308 and outputs image data to be displayed on the operation unit 308 to the operation unit 308. The operation unit I / F 307 serves to transmit information (for example, user information) input by the system user from the operation unit 308 to the CPU 301.

  Note that the operation unit 308 includes a display unit having a touch panel, and various instructions can be given by a user pressing (touching with a finger or the like) a button displayed on the display unit.

  A network interface (Network I / F) 305 is connected to a network (LAN) and inputs / outputs data. A modem (MODEM) 306 is connected to a public line and inputs / outputs data such as FAX transmission / reception.

  Reference numeral 318 denotes an external interface (external I / F), which is an I / F unit that accepts external inputs such as USB, IEEE 1394, printer port, and RS-232C. In this embodiment, for reading an IC card required for authentication The card reader 319 is connected to the external I / F unit 318. The CPU 301 can control reading of information from the IC card by the card reader 319 via the external I / F 318, and can acquire information read from the IC card.

  Note that the storage medium is not limited to an IC card, and any storage medium that can identify a user may be used. In this case, identification information for identifying the user is stored in the storage medium. This identification information may be a production number of the storage medium or a user code given by the user within the company.

The above devices are arranged on the system bus 309.

  Reference numeral 320 denotes an image bus interface (IMAGE BUS I / F), which is a bus bridge that connects the system bus 309 and an image bus 315 that transfers image data at high speed and converts the data structure.

  The image bus 315 is configured by a PCI bus or IEEE1394. The following devices are arranged on the image bus 315.

  A raster image processor (RIP) 310 develops vector data such as a PDL code into a bitmap image. A printer interface (printer I / F) 311 connects the printer 312 and the controller unit 316, and performs synchronous / asynchronous conversion of image data.

  A scanner interface (scanner I / F) 313 connects the scanner 314 and the controller unit 316 and performs synchronous / asynchronous conversion of image data.

  An image processing unit 317 performs correction, processing, and editing on input image data, and performs printer correction, resolution conversion, and the like on print output image data. In addition to this, the image processing unit 317 performs image data rotation and compression / decompression processing such as JPEG for multi-valued image data and JBIG, MMR, MH for binary image data.

  The scanner unit 314 illuminates an image on paper as a document and scans it with a CCD line sensor, thereby converting it into an electrical signal as raster image data. The original paper is set on the tray of the original feeder, and when the apparatus user gives a reading start instruction from the operation unit 308, the CPU 301 gives an instruction to the scanner 314, and the feeder feeds the original paper one by one to read the original image. I do.

  The printer unit 312 is a part that converts raster image data into an image on paper. The method is an electrophotographic method using a photosensitive drum or a photosensitive belt, and ink is ejected from a micro nozzle array directly on the paper. There is an inkjet method for printing an image, but any method may be used. The activation of the printing operation is started by an instruction from the CPU 301. The printer unit 312 has a plurality of paper feed stages so that different paper sizes or different paper orientations can be selected, and has a paper cassette corresponding thereto.

  The operation unit 308 has an LCD display unit, and a touch panel sheet is pasted on the LCD. The operation unit 308 displays an operation screen of the system. When a displayed key is pressed, the position information is displayed on the operation unit I / F 307. To the CPU 301 via The operation unit 308 includes, for example, a start key, a stop key, an ID key, a reset key, and the like as various operation keys.

  Here, the start key of the operation unit 308 is used when starting a document image reading operation. At the center of the start key, there are two color LEDs, green and red, which indicate whether or not the start key can be used. Further, the stop key of the operation unit 308 functions to stop the operation in operation. The ID key of the operation unit 308 is used when inputting the user ID of the user. The reset key is used when initializing settings from the operation unit.

  The card reader 319 reads information stored in an IC card (for example, Sony FeliCa (registered trademark)) under the control of the CPU 301, and reads the read information via the external I / F 318. The CPU 301 is notified.

  FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a form form registration process according to the embodiment of the present invention.

  When the system is activated in step S301, a form list screen shown in FIG. 11 is displayed in step S302.

  FIG. 11 shows an example of the main menu 1101 of this system. The form form list 1102 displays form form registration names stored in the database. The form form database will be described later. In the main menu, menus of new reading 1103, deletion 1104, editing 1105, and end 1106 are displayed.

  When a new reading 1103 is pressed and a document is scanned by the reading unit 101, the scanned document can be registered as a form form (form registration unit 103). When the end 1106 is pressed, this menu is ended. When a form form is selected from the form form list 1102 and the delete 1104 is pressed, the selected form form is deleted from the database (database 110).

  When a form form is selected from the form form list 1102 and the edit 1105 is pressed, the registered form form can be edited (form editing unit 106). Details will be described later.

  Returning to the description of FIG. The document of the form form to be registered is read in step S303, and selection of whether the read document is registered as a form form as it is or edited and registered is accepted. When registering as it is, it progresses to step S305, and when registering after editing, it progresses to step S304.

  FIG. 10 shows an image of the original to be read, and FIG. 12 shows a screen on which the read data is displayed.

  FIG. 10 shows an example of a paper document 1001 to be scanned. Items such as a date 1002 and a name 1003 can be designated as editable items by the form form editing unit. The date information includes information such as year and time.

  FIG. 12 shows a screen 1201 on which a newly read form document is displayed.

  Here, when the cancel 1202 is pressed, the processing ends. When the edit 1203 is pressed, the form editing process is executed. When the registration 1204 is pressed, the form form name input screen 1205 is displayed. When the form form name to be registered is input in the input field 1206 and the OK button is pressed. Registered in the database.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing editable item selection processing according to the embodiment of the present invention.

  This is a process executed by the editable item selection unit 104 in correspondence with the form form editing process in step S304 of FIG.

  In step S401, a form form to be processed is displayed. In step S402, selection of an editable item is accepted, and in step S403, item attributes and the like are set for the editable item, and the changed contents are confirmed in step S404.

  This process will be described using the screen image of FIG.

  FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of an editable item registration screen in the embodiment of the present invention.

  A screen 1301 is a screen of the form form displayed in step S401. In step S402, input items corresponding to the date 1302 and the name 1303 are selected as editable items.

  When cancel 1304 is pressed, the process ends. When an item is selected and delete 1305 is pressed, the selection as an editable item is deleted. When the confirmation 1306 is pressed, the screen shifts to an editable item registration processing screen 1311 shown in FIG.

  FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing registration processing of editable items in the embodiment of the present invention.

  This process corresponds to the edit area registration process in step S403 in FIG.

  In step S501, an item to be specified in the editing area is selected. Items to be selected are items selected as editable items in FIG. In step S502, an attribute is set for the selected item. An attribute is an attribute for a selected item, and a date, user name, mail address, and the like can be set. In step S503, it is stored in the database.

  This process will be described using the screen image of FIG. For example, when a date is selected in step S501, an attribute 1312 is displayed. The described contents are changed according to the attribute set here. Details will be described later.

  In the form form screen 1321 in which the attribute is set, the attribute name set in the item corresponding to the date 1322 and the name 1323 is displayed.

  FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a form form editing process according to the embodiment of the present invention.

  This corresponds to the processing when the form form is selected from the form form list 1102 in FIG. 11 and the edit 1105 is pressed.

  Steps S601 to S605 are the same as those described with reference to FIG. In step S606, editable item registration processing shown in FIG. 5 is performed on the selected form form.

  FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a read document output process according to the embodiment of the present invention.

  3 to 6, the process for registering a form has been described. FIGS. 7 to 10 describe processing when the user uses a registered form form.

  In step S701, the document is scanned. In step S702, the form detection unit 102 detects whether the scanned document and the registered form form are the same form to identify the form form.

  In this detection method, for example, comparison may be performed using feature amounts as described in prior art documents, or identification information such as a barcode or a symbol is attached to a document and used. You may make it judge.

  If it is determined in step S703 that they are the same form, in step S704, editable item difference determination processing is performed. Although details will be described later, this is a process of comparing the items described in the scanned document with the items registered in the form and editing / changing the contents if necessary.

  If it is determined that the form forms do not match, the process proceeds to a document output process in step S708.

  If it is determined in step S704 that there is a difference, an item replacement process is performed on the difference in step S706. Although details will be described later, for example, if the attribute is a date item, the operation date is changed to the operation date item, and if the attribute is a name item, the name of the user who performed the operation is changed.

  In step S707, a process for combining the changed items into a form is performed, and in step S708, the document is output. The document output is a predetermined operation set in advance, and may be output to paper, FAX transmission, output to a file storage destination, or various outputs. .

  FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the editable item detection process according to the embodiment of the present invention.

  This corresponds to the difference determination process in step S704 of FIG. In step S801, editable item information is acquired from the form form determined to be the same form. In step S802, authentication information is acquired corresponding to the environment of the operating user. The authentication information is an item corresponding to the set attribute, and corresponds to a date, a user name, an email address, and the like in this embodiment.

  In step S803, the acquired editable item is compared with the authentication information, and the process ends. Note that it is possible to set so that the editable item information is acquired in step S801 and the authentication information in step S802 is not acquired. When such a setting is made, the flowchart is terminated with no difference, but a screen shown in FIG. 14 is displayed in which editable items can be edited.

  Here, the items of date 1401 and user name 1402 set as editable items are displayed in an editable manner. In step S708, the original is output with the edited contents. In other words, it is possible to accept changes to items displayed so as to be editable and to synthesize them into a form form to be output.

  FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the editable item replacement process according to the embodiment of the present invention.

  This corresponds to the item replacement process in step S706 of FIG. In step S901, the item difference is replaced with authentication information. For example, a case where “Kannon Hanako” reads the form shown in FIG. 10 as a manuscript on “2012/10/10” will be described.

  The user scans a document that has already been output in order to reuse it. First, an “application” is specified as a form. In the “application”, “name” and “date” are set as editable items. Since the name and date corresponding to the editable item are acquired as authentication information, the items are replaced and displayed as shown in FIG.

  FIG. 15 is a diagram showing an example of a screen when a form form difference is detected in the embodiment of the present invention.

  The date 1501 is displayed as “2012/10/10” acquired as authentication information from “2012/10/01” shown in FIG. 10, and the name 1502 is changed from “Taro Kannon” to “Hanako Kannon”. .

  In step S902, an item to be edited can be selected. If selected, it is displayed in an editable state such as date 1503 and name 1504 in FIG. If edited by the user, the editing is accepted in step S903, the editing content is confirmed in step S904, and the process is terminated. If the completion is pressed without selecting editing after the replacement with the authentication information, the processing of steps S902 to S904 is not performed.

  FIG. 16 is a diagram showing an example of a database in the embodiment of the present invention.

  It is stored in the database 100, and a form form database 1601, an editable item database 1602, and an attribute database 1603 are related to each other using a registration number and an edit item number as keys.

  The form form database 1601 stores a form form image path where the form is stored and a registered name of the form form.

  The editable item database 1602 stores position information indicating editable item areas as changeable item information. If the area of the item can be specified, it need not be limited to the position information.

  Attributes set in the item are set in the attribute database 1603, and the difference between the authentication information is extracted using the attribute specified here. For example, if the name is 0001, the user name of the user is acquired from the system, and if the name is 0003, the user's mail address is acquired from the system. If the date is 0002, the operation date may be acquired from the system and compared.

  Although one embodiment has been described above, the present invention can take an embodiment as, for example, a system, apparatus, method, program, or recording medium, and specifically includes a plurality of devices. The present invention may be applied to a system including a single device.

  The program according to the present invention is a program that can be executed by a computer according to the processing method of the flowchart shown in the present invention. The storage medium according to the present invention stores a program that can be executed by a computer. The program in the present invention may be a program for each processing method of each device.

  As described above, a recording medium that records a program that implements the functions of the above-described embodiments is supplied to a system or apparatus, and a computer (or CPU or MPU) of the system or apparatus stores the program stored in the recording medium. It goes without saying that the object of the present invention can also be achieved by executing the reading.

  In this case, the program itself read from the recording medium realizes the novel function of the present invention, and the recording medium storing the program constitutes the present invention.

  As a recording medium for supplying the program, for example, a flexible disk, hard disk, optical disk, magneto-optical disk, CD-ROM, CD-R, DVD-ROM, magnetic tape, nonvolatile memory card, ROM, EEPROM, silicon A disk, solid state drive, or the like can be used.

  Further, by executing the program read by the computer, not only the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized, but also an OS (operating system) operating on the computer based on an instruction of the program is actually It goes without saying that a case where the function of the above-described embodiment is realized by performing part or all of the processing and the processing is included.

  Furthermore, after the program read from the recording medium is written to the memory provided in the function expansion board inserted into the computer or the function expansion unit connected to the computer, the function expansion board is based on the instructions of the program code. It goes without saying that the case where the CPU or the like provided in the function expansion unit performs part or all of the actual processing and the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized by the processing.

  Further, the present invention may be applied to a system composed of a plurality of devices or an apparatus composed of a single device. Needless to say, the present invention can be applied to a case where the present invention is achieved by supplying a program to a system or apparatus. In this case, by reading a recording medium storing a program for achieving the present invention into the system or apparatus, the system or apparatus can enjoy the effects of the present invention.

  Furthermore, by downloading and reading a program for achieving the present invention from a server, database, etc. on a network using a communication program, the system or apparatus can enjoy the effects of the present invention.

  In addition, all the structures which combined each embodiment mentioned above and its modification are also included in this invention.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Document reader 101 Reading part 102 Form detection part 103 Form registration part 104 Editable item selection part 105 Editable item registration part 106 Form edit part 107 Form output part 108 Editable item detection part 109 Item edit part 110 Database

Claims (8)

A document reading device capable of reading and outputting a paper document,
Form form storage means for storing form forms in which changeable item information is set;
Form form specifying means for specifying a form used for the paper document from the read paper document;
Changeable item display means for displaying the changeable items set in the form form specified by the form form specifying means so as to be changeable;
Change content accepting means for accepting changes to the item;
A synthesizing unit that synthesizes the change content to the item accepted by the change content accepting unit into the specified form form;
A document reading apparatus comprising: Item information comparison means for comparing the contents of the item information when the paper document is read with the contents of the item information recorded in the form specified by the form form specifying means;
When the item information comparing unit determines that there is a difference, the combining unit changes the item information recorded in the form to the content of the item information when the paper document is read, and combines the item information. The document reading apparatus according to claim 1. The item information is user information related to a user name,
3. The document reading apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the item information comparison unit compares the user information read from the paper document with the user information stored in the form form. The item information is date information regarding a date,
4. The document reading apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the item information comparison unit compares date information obtained by reading the paper document with date information stored in the form form.   5. The document reading apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the form form stored in the form form storage unit includes form data and item data. Form form registration means for registering the read form form,
Changeable information registration means for setting changeable item information in the form registered by the form form registration means;
The document reading apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: A method for controlling a document reading apparatus that has a form storage means for storing a form with set item information that can be changed, and that can read and output a paper document,
A form form specifying step for specifying a form used for the paper document from the read paper document;
A changeable item display step for displaying the changeable items set in the form form specified by the form form specifying step so as to be changeable,
A change content accepting step for accepting a change content to the item;
A composition step of synthesizing the contents of change to the item received in the change content acceptance step with the specified form form;
A document reading apparatus comprising: A document form storage unit that stores a form form in which changeable item information is set and has a document reading device that can read and output a paper document. The form form used for the paper document from the read paper document. Form form identification means for identifying
Changeable item display means for displaying the changeable items set in the form form specified by the form form specifying means so as to be changeable;
Change content accepting means for accepting changes to the item;
A synthesizing unit that synthesizes the change content to the item accepted by the change content accepting unit into the specified form form;
A program for causing a document reading apparatus to function.

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