JP2016009417A - Document processor and document processing program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a document processor and document processing program capable of readily producing metadata, which is used to evaluate the contents of a document, and outlining the document on the basis of the produced metadata.SOLUTION: Included are a memory unit that stores document data which contains at least one of character data and image data, an output unit that outputs the stored document data, a control unit that allows the output unit to output the stored document data so that the document data can be evaluated by one or more evaluators, and an input unit that receives pieces of position information in the document data concerning one or more evaluated points selected by the one or more evaluators who have evaluated the outputted document, and results of evaluations assigned to the respective evaluated points. The control unit allows the memory unit to store the pieces of position information and results of evaluations, which are received by the input unit, extracts the evaluated points from the document data on the basis of the stored pieces of position information, and creates an abstract.

Description

  The present invention relates to a document processing apparatus and a document processing program for processing a document based on metadata.

  In recent years, information devices such as servers for registering and managing documents and image forming apparatuses (MFP, Multifunction Peripheral) have been required to have a mechanism that can efficiently manage registered documents as the number of documents handled increases. The following mechanism was developed.

  For example, in the technique disclosed in Patent Document 1, first, a document to be registered in the image forming apparatus and metadata of the document are read from a memory card, converted into a document format handled by the image forming apparatus, and the document and its metadata are converted. Accumulate. Then, the registered document is searched by comparing the keyword input by the user with the keyword registered in the metadata.

  Further, the technique disclosed in Patent Document 2 uses a keyword used for a search for a sentence to be analyzed, a phrase representing evaluation for the keyword, and an evaluation value that is totaled when the phrase appears in the sentence. Perform various analyses. A keyword in a sentence is searched, a phrase representing an evaluation around the searched keyword is extracted, and an author's evaluation for the searched keyword is obtained based on the contents of the phrase. And many evaluations obtained are aggregated and analyzed.

  In the technique disclosed in Patent Document 3, when an advertisement is distributed to a web page, words in the web page are evaluated, and an opinion on the product is determined from the word evaluation. Based on the determined opinion, an extracted summary or descriptive summary is created and entered into a template to form an advertisement for the product.

  In the technique disclosed in Patent Document 4, while a user is browsing a document (browsing document), another document is searched using a word or the like in the document as a keyword, and the user among the documents listed as a search result. The document referred to by is used as the reference document. The relationship between the browsing document and the reference document is accumulated as metadata, and various analyzes are performed.

JP 2008-299432 A JP 2011-70252 A Special table 2011-519444 gazette JP 2007-102767 A

  As described above, metadata has been used to manage and analyze a large number of documents. However, creation of metadata for evaluating the contents of a document is very time-consuming.

  In view of the circumstances as described above, an object of the present invention is to provide a document processing apparatus and a document processing program capable of easily creating metadata for evaluating the contents of a document and summarizing the document based on the created metadata. There is.

  To achieve the above object, a document processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention outputs a storage unit storing document data including at least one of character data and image data, and the stored document data. Selected by an output unit, a control unit that causes the output unit to output the stored document data for evaluation by one or more evaluators, and the one or more evaluators who evaluated the output document. An input unit that receives position information of the one or more evaluation points in the document data and an evaluation result assigned to each evaluation point, and the control unit further receives the position information received by the input unit. Then, the evaluation result is stored in the storage unit, and based on the stored position information, the evaluation part is extracted from the document data to create a summary. Therefore, metadata for evaluating the contents of the document can be easily created, and the document can be summarized based on the created metadata.

  In order to achieve the above object, in the document processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention, the control unit creates the summary by extracting the evaluation portion from the document data based on the evaluation result in addition to the position information. The structure to do may be sufficient.

  In order to achieve the above object, in the document processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention, the control unit includes, among the evaluation points, an evaluation point where the number of the assigned evaluation results exceeds a specific threshold value. It may be configured to extract as the summary.

  In order to achieve the above object, in the document processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention, the control unit may extract the entire sentence including the evaluation portion when the evaluation portion is extracted from the document data.

  In order to achieve the above object, in the document processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention, the control unit may cause the input unit to accept either high evaluation or low evaluation as the evaluation result.

  In order to achieve the above object, in the document processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention, the control unit may include the number of the high evaluation and the low evaluation for each evaluation portion in the generated summary. .

  In order to achieve the above object, a document processing program according to an aspect of the present invention causes one or more evaluators to evaluate document data including at least one of character data and image data stored in a storage unit. Output to the output unit, and to the input unit, the position information in the document data of the evaluation point selected by the one or more evaluators who evaluated the output document data and the evaluation point The received evaluation result, the received position information and the evaluation result are stored in the storage unit, and the evaluation part is extracted from the document data and summarized based on the stored position information. Make the computer function as a controller that creates

  As described above, according to the present invention, metadata for evaluating the content of a document can be easily created, and the document can be summarized based on the created metadata.

1 is a configuration diagram of a specific example of a usage environment in a case where a document processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention is realized using a general computer as a document processing server 1. It is a block diagram of the document processing server 1 used as a document processing apparatus. FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a specific example of a usage environment when a document processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention is realized as an image forming apparatus 20. 1 is a configuration diagram of an image forming apparatus 20 used as a document processing apparatus. This is a specific example showing how the evaluator adds a Like attribute or a Dislike attribute to a specific part designated by the evaluator of the registered document in the document processing server 1 or the image forming apparatus 20. It is a specific example of metadata generated using a structured language format such as XML. It is a figure which shows a mode that the evaluator C gives a Like attribute to the specific location "MAX of 8192KB" of the document D, and the evaluator D gives the Like attribute to the specific location (Graph of Test4) of the document D. It is a figure which shows collectively the example of the metadata 17b produced | generated as an evaluation result by the evaluators B, C, and D. It is a figure which shows the example of the summary produced | generated based on the collected metadata. It is a figure which shows the example of the summary D3 which described the breakdown of attribute addition further to the summary D2. 4 is a flowchart for explaining a flow of processing in a first stage in which a document to be evaluated is registered in the image forming apparatus. 10 is a flowchart for explaining a flow of processing in a second stage for evaluating a document registered in the image forming apparatus 20. FIG. 10 is a sequence diagram for explaining a specific example of a process in which two evaluators (evaluator A and evaluator B) evaluate a document in the image forming apparatus 20. It is a sequence diagram for demonstrating the specific example which the user who registers a document as a 1st step serves as the evaluator of a 2nd step, and processes a 1st step and a 2nd step collectively. It is a flowchart for demonstrating the flow of a process of the 3rd step which produces the summary of a document based on the metadata regarding the collected evaluation. It is a sequence diagram for demonstrating the example until a summary is printed and output by a user's instruction | indication in a 3rd step.

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

[Overview]
First, the outline of the present invention will be described. The present invention includes three stages: “document registration”, “evaluation of registered document”, and “utilization of document evaluation as metadata”.

  In the first stage, “document registration” is performed. Specifically, a document that the user wants to process by the document processing apparatus is registered in the document processing apparatus. The registration may be performed by reading a document printed on a paper medium with a scanner and performing OCR (Optical Character Recognition) processing to form electronic character data or image data in a document processing apparatus. A document that is data may be registered in the document processing apparatus as it is.

  In the second stage, “evaluation of registered document” is performed in the first stage. The evaluation may be performed by accessing the document processing apparatus by a member of the group to which the user who registered the document belongs, or by allowing an ordinary person unrelated to the user who registered the document to access the document processing apparatus. May be collected. In the evaluation, the evaluator designates a part of the document registered in the document management apparatus, and assigns a “Like” (like, high evaluation) attribute or a “Dislike” (dislike, low evaluation) attribute to the designated portion. To do.

  In the third stage, “use document evaluation as metadata” collected in the second stage. Specifically, in a registered document, a portion where a Like attribute or Dislike attribute is given by many evaluators is determined to be an important portion with a high degree of attention, and by extracting that portion, Create a summary of registered documents.

  Through the above three steps, metadata for evaluating the contents of the registered document can be easily created, and the document can be summarized based on the created metadata.

  The outline of the present invention has been described above.

[Environment using document processing device (part 1)]
Next, a specific configuration example of the usage environment when the document processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention is realized using a general computer as a document processing server will be described. FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a specific example of a usage environment when a document processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention is realized using a general computer as the document processing server 1.

  In this usage environment, a document processing server 1 that is a document processing apparatus is connected to a PC (Personal Computer) 2 and an image forming apparatus 3 via a network 4. There may be a plurality of PCs 2 and image forming apparatuses 3.

  In the first stage of “document registration”, for example, a user scans a paper document using the scanner function of the image forming apparatus 3, and the document is converted into character data and image data by the OCR function of the image forming apparatus 3. The digitized document is registered in the document processing server 1 via the network 4.

  In the first stage, an electronic document including character data and image data may be registered from the PC 2 in the document processing server 1 via the network 4.

  In the second stage of performing “evaluation of registered document”, the evaluator uses a display unit and an operation input unit provided in the document processing server 1 in order to evaluate the document registered in the document processing server 1. The document is directly accessed or the document is accessed from the PC 2 via the network 4.

  In the third stage of “utilizing document evaluation as metadata”, the Like attribute and Dislike attribute associated with a specific part in the document in the second stage are aggregated to create a summary of the document. In order to view the created summary, the user directly accesses the summary using the display unit and the operation input unit provided in the document processing server 1 or accesses the summary via the network 4 using the PC 2.

  The specific configuration example of the usage environment has been described above in the case where the document processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention is realized using a general computer as the document processing server 1.

[Configuration of Document Processing Apparatus (Part 1)]
Next, the configuration of the document processing server 1 used as the document processing apparatus will be described. FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of the document processing server 1 used as a document processing apparatus.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the document processing server 1 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 11, a ROM (Read Only Memory) 12, a RAM (Random Access Memory) 13, an operation input unit (input unit) 14, a network interface unit ( An output unit) 15, a display unit (output unit) 16, and a storage unit 17, and these blocks are connected via a bus 18.

  The ROM 12 stores a plurality of programs and data such as firmware for executing various processes. The RAM 13 is used as a work area for the CPU 11 and temporarily holds an OS (Operating System), various applications being executed, and various data being processed.

  The storage unit 17 is, for example, an HDD (Hard Disk Drive), a flash memory, or other nonvolatile memory. In the storage unit 17, in addition to the OS and various applications, document data 17a of a document to be registered and evaluated, metadata 17b such as a Like attribute and a Dislike attribute added to a specific part by evaluating the document, a document Summary data 17c created by processing the data 17a based on the metadata 17b is stored.

  The network interface unit 15 is connected to the network 4 and exchanges information with the PC 2 and the image forming apparatus 3.

  The CPU 11 expands a program corresponding to an instruction given via the operation input unit 14 or the network 4 among the plurality of programs stored in the ROM 12 or the storage unit 17 in the RAM 13, and displays the display unit according to the expanded program. 16 and the storage unit 17 are appropriately controlled.

  Further, the CPU 11 stores electronic document data input for registration by the user via the network 4 and the network interface unit 15 in the storage unit 17. Then, the CPU 11 presents the stored document data 17a to the evaluator, and stores the Like attribute and Dislike attribute added to a specific portion of the document presented by the evaluator in the storage unit 17 as metadata 17b.

  Then, the CPU 11 creates a summary of the document as summary data 17c based on the stored metadata 17b, and provides the created summary to the user.

  The operation input unit 14 is, for example, a pointing device such as a mouse, a keyboard, a touch panel, and other operation devices.

  The display unit 16 is, for example, a liquid crystal display, an EL (Electro-Luminescence) display, a plasma display, a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) display, or the like. The display unit 16 may be built in the document processing server 1 or may be externally connected.

  The configuration of the document processing server 1 used as the document processing apparatus has been described above.

[Environment using document processing device (part 2)]
Next, a specific configuration example of the usage environment when the document processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention is realized as an image forming apparatus will be described. FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of a specific example of the usage environment when the document processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention is realized as the image forming apparatus 20.

  In this usage environment, the image forming apparatus 20 that is a document processing apparatus also serves as the document processing server 1 in the above-described example. In other words, the image forming apparatus 20 integrates the functions of the document processing server 1 and the general image forming apparatus 3 described above.

  Except for the point that the image forming apparatus 20 also functions as the document processing server 1, the configuration is the same as that shown in FIG.

  The specific configuration example of the usage environment when the document processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention is realized as the image forming apparatus 20 has been described above.

[Configuration of Document Processing Device (Part 2)]
Next, the configuration of the image forming apparatus 20 used as the document processing apparatus will be described. FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram of the image forming apparatus 20 used as the document processing apparatus.

  The image forming apparatus 20 includes a control unit 21. The control unit 21 includes a CPU, a RAM, a ROM, a dedicated hardware circuit, and the like, and governs overall operation control of the image forming apparatus 20.

  The control unit 21 includes a document reading unit (scanner) 22, an image processing unit 24, an image memory 25, an image forming unit (output unit) 26, an operation unit (input unit) 27, a facsimile communication unit 28, a network interface unit (output unit). ) 29, connected to the storage unit 31 and the like. The control unit 21 performs operation control of each of the above connected units, and transmission / reception of signals or data to / from each unit.

  Further, the control unit 21 stores electronic document data input from the PC 2 in the storage unit 17 for registration by the user via the network 4 and the network interface unit 15. Alternatively, the control unit 21 performs OCR processing on the image data read by the document reading unit 22 for registration by the user, and stores the image data in the storage unit 31 as electronic document data 31a.

  Then, the control unit 21 presents the stored document data 31a to the evaluator via the display unit 27a or the network 4, and adds the Like attribute and the Dislike attribute added to a specific part of the document presented by the evaluator. The metadata 31b is stored in the storage unit 31.

  Then, the control unit 21 creates a summary of the document as summary data 31c based on the stored metadata 31b, and provides the created summary to the user.

  The control unit 21 performs operation control on each function such as a scanner function, a print function, a copy function, and a facsimile transmission / reception function in accordance with a job execution instruction input from the user through the operation unit 27 or the network-connected PC 2 or the like. Controls the drive and processing of the mechanisms necessary to execute.

  Further, the control unit 21 includes an OCR processing unit 21a and the like. The OCR processing unit 21a and the like are functional blocks that are realized by the CPU executing a program loaded from the ROM or the like to the RAM.

  The OCR processing unit 21a performs OCR processing on the image data read by the document reading unit 22 and converts the image data into document data, or extracts image data such as graphs and photographs.

  The document reading unit 22 reads an image from a document.

  The image processing unit 24 performs image processing on the image data of the image read by the document reading unit 22 as necessary. For example, the image processing unit 24 performs image processing such as shading correction in order to improve the quality after the image read by the document reading unit 22 is formed.

  The image memory 25 is an area for temporarily storing document image data obtained by reading by the document reading unit 22 and temporarily storing data to be printed by the image forming unit 26.

  The image forming unit 26 forms an image such as image data read by the document reading unit 22.

  The operation unit 27 includes a touch panel unit and operation key units that receive instructions from the user regarding various operations and processes that can be executed by the image forming apparatus 20. The touch panel unit includes a display unit (output unit) 27a such as an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) provided with a touch panel.

  The facsimile communication unit 28 includes an encoding / decoding unit, a modulation / demodulation unit, and an NCU (Network Control Unit) (not shown), and performs facsimile transmission using a public telephone line network.

  The network interface unit 29 includes a communication module such as a LAN board, and transmits and receives various data to and from a device (such as a PC) in the local area via a LAN or the like connected to the network interface unit 29.

  The storage unit 31 stores a document image read by the document reading unit 22, document data 31a, metadata 31b, and summary data 31c. The storage unit 31 is a large-capacity storage device such as an HDD. The document data 31a, metadata 31b, and summary data 31c are the same as the document data 17a, metadata 17b, and summary data 17c described above.

  The configuration of the image forming apparatus 20 used as the document processing apparatus has been described above.

[Method of adding Like attribute and Dislike attribute]
Next, in the second stage described above, the evaluator adds a Like attribute or a Dislike attribute to a specific part designated by the evaluator in the document registered in the document processing server 1 or the image forming apparatus 20. The situation will be described with a specific example. FIG. 5 is a specific example showing how the evaluator adds a Like attribute or a Dislike attribute to a specific part specified by the evaluator of the registered document in the document processing server 1 or the image forming apparatus 20. is there. In the following example, the document processing server 1 is used as a document processing apparatus.

  First, it is assumed that the user A registers the document D “evaluation result report” in the document processing server 1.

  Next, the evaluator B browses the document D on the browsing screen D1 using the document evaluation application program. And if you see that the value of “Performance” described in the “Test2” item in “Chapter 4 Result Report” is “3,000 msec”, do not like this number.

  The evaluator B selects “3,000 msec” on the browsing screen D1 and clicks a Dislike button (not shown) in order to evaluate that this numerical value is not appreciated.

  When the evaluator clicks a Like button (not shown) or a Dislike button, the document evaluation application program uses, for example, a structured language format such as XML (Extensible Markup Language) as shown in FIG. 17b is generated.

  In the structured language format metadata 17b, the part selected by the evaluator is a character string (text), the chapter number, the XY coordinates of the selection start position, the XY coordinates of the selection end position, and the selected character string. Is recorded. Furthermore, “performance: 3,000 msec” may be recorded for the <sentence> tag as one sentence that includes the selected character string and is meaningful.

  Similarly, the evaluator C assigns a Like attribute to a specific part “MAX of 8192 KB” of the document D, and the evaluator D assigns a Like attribute to a specific part of the document D (graph of Test 4). 7 shows.

  Further, FIG. 8 collectively shows examples of metadata 17b generated as an evaluation result by the evaluators B, C, and D. Note that the Like attribute portion shown in the upper part of FIG. 8 indicates addition of the Like attribute to a specific part of the Test4 graph by the evaluator D, and indicates that the image data corresponds to the <type> tag. "image" is specified.

  As described above, the document processing server 1 or the image forming apparatus 20 has described the manner in which the evaluator adds the Like attribute or the Dislike attribute to a specific portion designated by the evaluator of the registered document.

[Example of generated summary]
Next, an example of a summary generated based on the collected metadata in the third stage described above will be described. FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of a summary generated based on the collected metadata.

  The summary D2 illustrated in FIG. 9 is generated based on the metadata 17b generated by the evaluator adding a Like attribute or a Dislike attribute to the document D described above.

  In the document D, the Like attribute is assigned to the location “MAX with 8192 KB” and the Test 4 graph, and the Dislike attribute is assigned to the location “3,000 msec”.

  Therefore, in the summary D2, the item “Like” includes “Memory consumption is 8192KB for MAX, 4096KB for MIN”, which includes “MAX is 8192KB”, and the entire graph of Test4 is described. ing. In the item “Dislike”, “performance: 3,000 msec”, which is one sentence including “3,000 msec”, is described.

  When summarizing a document, understand the summary generated by extracting not only the part selected by the evaluator but also a group of meaningful units (for example, one sentence or one paragraph) including the selected part. It can be made easy to do.

  The summary may describe the breakdown of how many Like and Dislike attributes are assigned to which part of the document. FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of a summary D3 in which a breakdown of attribute assignment is further described in the above-described summary D2.

  Looking at the breakdown shown in FIG. 10, the contents of Chapters 1 to 3 are not given the Like attribute or the Dislike attribute by the evaluator. In Chapter 4, there are 8 Like attributes and 3 It can be seen that a number of Dislike attributes are assigned. Also, of the 8 Like attributes assigned to Chapter 4, 4 are assigned to the “MAX with 8192KB” location, and the remaining 4 are assigned to the Test4 graph. I understand.

  In the above, the example of the summary produced | generated based on the collected metadata in the 3rd step mentioned above was demonstrated.

[Criteria for inclusion in the summary]
Next, a description will be given of the criteria for selecting which part of the document is given the Like attribute and the Dislike attribute in the summary.

  As the employment standard, for example, it can be determined that the Like attribute is given from a specific number or more of evaluators, and the Dislike attribute is given from a specific number or more of evaluators.

  In the present invention, it is based on the premise that the part that the evaluator gives high evaluation or low evaluation and pays attention to is the part that should be adopted in the summary. Therefore, it is determined whether or not to adopt a specific part for the summary based on the number of granted Like attributes and Dislike attributes.

  As described above, the criteria for determining which part of the document is given the Like attribute and the Dislike attribute for the summary has been described.

[Summary creation start criteria]
Next, the criteria for creating a summary based on the collected metadata will be described.

  As a timing for creating a summary, for example, when a user explicitly instructs to create a summary for a specific document, or when evaluation is performed by a specific number or more of evaluators for one document, 1 The case where the Like attribute or Dislike attribute assigned to the location exceeds the reference value, the case where a predetermined evaluation period expires, or the like can be considered.

  The criteria for creating a summary based on the collected metadata have been described above.

[Process flow]
Next, the flow of processing performed by the document processing server 1 and the image forming apparatus 20 that are document processing apparatuses will be described. FIGS. 11 to 16 are a flowchart and a sequence diagram for explaining the flow of processing performed in the document processing server 1 and the image forming apparatus 20 as document processing apparatuses.

  In the following description, the image forming apparatus 20 will be described as an example. The description will be divided into a first stage to a third stage.

<First stage (document registration)>
First, the process flow of the first stage for registering the document to be evaluated in the image forming apparatus 20 will be described. FIG. 11 is a flowchart for explaining a flow of processing in a first stage in which a document to be evaluated is registered in the image forming apparatus 20.

  First, it is determined whether or not the document to be registered for evaluation is printed on paper (step S1).

  If it is printed on paper (Y in step S1), the user gives an instruction to the control unit 21 via the operation unit 27, and causes the document reading unit 22 to scan a paper medium (step S2).

  Next, the control unit 21 causes the OCR processing unit 21a to perform OCR processing on the scan data (step S3). The data after the OCR process is stored in the storage unit 31.

  If the document is not printed on a paper medium (N in Step S1), or after the OCR process is completed, the document data constituting the document is composed of electronic character data and image data, and is stored in the storage unit 31 as it is. Stored (step S4).

<Second stage (evaluation of registered document)>
Next, the flow of the second stage process for evaluating a document registered in the image forming apparatus 20 will be described. FIG. 12 is a flowchart for explaining the flow of processing in the second stage for evaluating a document registered in the image forming apparatus 20.

  First, an evaluator who evaluates a document gives an instruction to the image forming apparatus 20 and selects a document to be evaluated (step S10).

  Next, the control unit 21 of the image forming apparatus 20 presents the selected document to the evaluator via the display unit 27a (step S11).

  Next, the evaluator selects a location to which a high or low evaluation attribute is desired in the presented document (step S12).

  Next, the evaluator pushes the Like button or the Dislike button to the part selected in the previous step to give an evaluation attribute (step S13).

  Next, the control unit 21 of the image forming apparatus 20 causes the storage unit 31 to store, as metadata 31b, the attribute of the evaluation given the position information of the location selected by the evaluator (step S14).

<Specific example of the second stage>
Next, a specific example of processing in which two evaluators (evaluator A and evaluator B) evaluate a document in the image forming apparatus 20 will be described. FIG. 13 is a sequence diagram for explaining a specific example of processing in which two evaluators (evaluator A and evaluator B) evaluate a document in the image forming apparatus 20.

  In the example illustrated in FIG. 13, the evaluator A and the evaluator B access the image forming apparatus from another PC 2, and on the PC 2, the document selected by using the above-described document evaluation application program. Assess.

  First, the evaluator A designates the document ID and acquires the document data 31 a stored in the storage unit 31 via the network interface unit 29 and the control unit 21 of the image forming apparatus 20.

  Specifically, as illustrated in FIG. 13, first, the evaluator A transmits a document acquisition request to the network interface unit 29 by designating the document ID via the PC 2 of the evaluator A. Next, the network interface unit 29 transmits the document ID to the control unit 21. When receiving the document ID, the control unit 21 activates the document BOX service, and acquires the document data 31 a corresponding to the document ID from the storage unit 31. The control unit 21 transmits the acquired document data 31a to the PC 2 of the evaluator A via the network interface unit 29. Thereby, the evaluator A acquires the document data 31a. The document BOX service is provided to manage input / output of the document data 31a stored in the storage unit 31.

  Next, the evaluator B acquires the document data 31a in the same manner as the process performed by the evaluator A.

  Next, when the evaluator A selects a location to which an evaluation attribute is to be added from the acquired document data 31a and presses the Like button to give the evaluation attribute, the document evaluation application program running on the PC 2 is set to the metadata 31b. Is generated. (The metadata 31b may be generated on the image forming apparatus 20 or may be generated on the PC 2.)

  Next, the document evaluation application program used by the evaluator A specifies the document ID and stores the generated metadata 31b via the network interface unit 29 and the control unit 21 of the image forming apparatus 20. Store in the unit 31.

  Specifically, as shown in FIG. 13, first, the PC 2 of the evaluator A transmits the document ID and metadata 31 b to the network interface unit 29. Next, the network interface unit 29 transmits the document ID and metadata 31 b to the control unit 21. When the control unit 21 receives the document ID and the metadata 31b, the control unit 21 activates the document BOX service and stores the metadata 31b in the storage unit 31 in association with the document ID. Thereafter, the control unit 21 notifies the evaluator A's PC 2 that the evaluation of the evaluator A has been registered via the network interface unit 29.

  Next, the process for the evaluator B is performed in the same manner as the process for the evaluator A except that the Dislike button is pressed.

  When the metadata 31 b is generated on the image forming apparatus 20, the PC 2 transmits a document ID and a request to generate the metadata 31 b (including the assigned evaluation attribute and location information) to the network interface unit 29. Then, the network interface unit 29 transmits a document ID and metadata 31b generation request to the control unit 21. The control unit 21 generates the metadata 31b in response to the generation request.

<Specific example of performing the first stage and the second stage together>
Next, a specific example will be described in which a user who registers a document as the first stage also serves as an evaluator in the second stage and processes the first stage and the second stage together. FIG. 14 is a sequence diagram for explaining a specific example in which a user who registers a document as the first stage also serves as an evaluator in the second stage and processes the first stage and the second stage together. is there.

  First, the user instructs the control unit 21 to digitize a document printed on paper via the operation unit 27.

  Next, the control unit 21 gives an instruction to the document reading unit 22 to scan the document.

  Next, the control unit 21 gives an instruction to the OCR processing unit 21a, converts the scanned image data into character data, and generates document data.

  Next, the control unit 21 displays the generated document data on the display unit 27a of the operation unit 27 for preview confirmation.

  Next, as the evaluator, the user selects a portion to which an evaluation attribute is to be assigned, and assigns a high evaluation or low evaluation attribute to the selected portion.

  Next, the control part 21 produces | generates the metadata 31b containing the attribute of evaluation of the positional information on the location which the user selected.

  Next, based on a user instruction, the control unit 21 stores the generated document data 31 a and metadata 31 b in the storage unit 31.

  Finally, the control unit 21 displays on the display unit 27a that the evaluation of the evaluator A has been registered.

<Stage 3 (using document evaluation as metadata)>
Next, a description will be given of the flow of processing in the third stage for creating a document summary based on the collected metadata relating to evaluation. FIG. 15 is a flowchart for explaining the flow of processing in the third stage for creating a summary of a document based on the collected metadata relating to evaluation.

  First, the control unit 21 searches the position information of the part to which the metadata 31b is attached with respect to the document for which the summary is created, and selects one of the parts to which the metadata 31b is attached based on the search result. (Step S20).

  Next, the control unit 21 determines whether or not the total number of high evaluations or total number of low evaluations assigned to the selected location exceeds a specific threshold (step S21).

  When the total number of high evaluations or total number of low evaluations given to the selected location exceeds a specific threshold (Y in Step S21), a meaningful unit including the selected location (here, 1 sentence) is adopted and extracted for inclusion in the summary (step S22).

  Next, the control unit 21 determines whether there is still a part to which the metadata 31b is assigned (step S23).

  If there is still a location to which the metadata 31b is assigned (Y in step S23), the control unit 21 selects the next location to which the metadata 31b is assigned (step S24), and returns to the process of step S21.

  When there is no more portion to which the metadata 31b is assigned (N in Step S23), the control unit 21 creates a summary by collecting the extracted data (Step S25).

<Specific example of the third stage>
Next, a specific example until the summary is printed and output in accordance with a user instruction in the third stage will be described. FIG. 16 is a sequence diagram for explaining a specific example until a summary is printed and output in accordance with a user instruction in the third stage.

  First, the user instructs the control unit 21 to print a summary of a specific document via the operation unit 27 of the image forming apparatus 20.

  Next, the control unit 21 acquires the document data 31 a and metadata 31 b of the corresponding document from the storage unit 31.

  Next, the control unit 21 creates a summary using the acquired document data 31a and metadata 31b.

  Next, the control unit 21 issues a print instruction to the image forming unit 26, and the summary is printed and output.

  The flow of processing performed by the document processing server 1 and the image forming apparatus 20 that are document processing apparatuses has been described above.

[Additional notes]
In addition, this invention is not limited only to the above-mentioned embodiment, Of course, various changes can be added within the range which does not deviate from the summary of this invention.

1 ... Document processing server 2 ... PC
3 ... Image forming apparatus 4 ... Network 11 ... CPU
12… ROM
13 ... RAM
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 14 ... Operation input part 15 ... Network interface part 16 ... Display part 17 ... Memory | storage part 18 ... Bus 20 ... Image forming apparatus 21 ... Control part 22 ... Document reading part 24 ... Image processing part 25 ... Image memory 26 ... Image forming part 27 Operation unit 27a Display unit 28 Facsimile communication unit 29 Network interface unit 31 Storage unit

Claims (7)

A storage unit storing document data including at least one of character data and image data;
An output unit for outputting the stored document data;
A control unit that causes the output unit to output the stored document data to allow one or more evaluators to evaluate the document data;
An input unit that receives position information in the document data of one or more evaluation points selected by the one or more evaluators who evaluated the output document and an evaluation result assigned to each evaluation point; With
The control unit further includes:
The position information received by the input unit and the evaluation result are stored in the storage unit,
A document processing apparatus that creates a summary by extracting the evaluation portion from the document data based on the stored position information. The document processing apparatus according to claim 1,
The controller is
A document processing apparatus that extracts the evaluation portion from the document data and creates a summary based on the evaluation result in addition to the position information. The document processing apparatus according to claim 2,
The controller is
A document processing apparatus that extracts, as the summary, an evaluation portion in which the number of the assigned evaluation results exceeds a specific threshold among the evaluation portions. The document processing apparatus according to claim 3,
The controller is
A document processing device that extracts an entire sentence including the evaluation portion when the evaluation portion is extracted from the document data. The document processing apparatus according to claim 4,
The controller is
A document processing apparatus that causes the input unit to accept either high evaluation or low evaluation as the evaluation result. The document processing apparatus according to claim 5,
The controller is
The document processing apparatus that includes the number of the high evaluation and the low evaluation for each evaluation portion in the summary to be created. Document data including at least one of character data and image data stored in the storage unit is output to the output unit in order to have one or more evaluators evaluate,
The input unit accepts position information in the document data of the evaluation part selected by the one or more evaluators who evaluated the output document data and the evaluation result given to the evaluation part. Let
Storing the received position information and the evaluation result in the storage unit;
A document processing program for causing a computer to function as a control unit that extracts the evaluation portion from the document data and creates a summary based on the stored position information.

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