JP2799162B2 - Document creation device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a document creating apparatus, and more particularly to a technique for matching a rectangular frame serving as a document printing area of a fixed size sheet with character data (print data) to be printed thereon. .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a document preparation apparatus such as a word processor, when character data is printed on a fixed sheet of paper in which a document print area is designated by a rectangular frame, the size, arrangement, number of digits, etc. of the designated area are created. The apparatus is made to recognize in advance, and in addition, the number of digits, the size, and the like of character data (input characters) to be printed in the designated area are set.

[0003] For example, in the case where the fixed form paper is a government-made postcard, the document preparation apparatus sets the document print items on the front side of the postcard assuming that the postal code, address, and name are to be entered, and sets the print format. (Format) is also set. The storage unit is provided with an address book file in which a zip code, an address, and a name can be entered at any time. By designating document print items and data of the address book file, a designated area for a fixed-size sheet such as a postcard is designated. It has a function that prints the postal code, address, and name.

[0004]

In a conventional document printing apparatus, when a print format is set for a designated document print area of a standard size paper, the format is fixed, and the format is fixed and the designated area or the area of the standard size paper is designated. If the format of the character data to be printed is changed,
I could not deal with it as it was and I had to manually change the print format again.

For example, since the number of print digits of character data to be printed in a designated area is set as a fixed value, print data cannot be printed when the number of print digits is larger than the fixed value.

Further, since the position and character size at which print data is printed are fixed, if the print position or print character size of print data is changed, it is necessary to change the processing contents of the system.

[0007] An object of the present invention is to provide a fixed-size sheet, especially a fixed-size sheet having a rectangular frame for designating a document print area, and a format for character data to be printed in the rectangular frame. Optimum printing is enabled by automatically matching the two , for example , to the number of digits in the postal code
An object of the present invention is to provide an effective document creation device when there is a change .

[0008]

The present invention is basically configured as follows.

That is, document creation means for creating document data, storage means for storing the created document data,
In a document creating apparatus having printing means for printing stored document data and display means for displaying stored document data, a rectangle for designating a document printing area of a fixed size paper
Paper reading means for reading a frame and converting the image data into image data; inputting the image data;
The format of the rectangular frame is recognized based on the
The size of the character data to be printed in the rectangular frame.
Calculation and the number of digits of the rectangular frame and printing on the rectangular frame
By calculating the difference in the number of digits of the character data, the digits of the rectangular frame are calculated.
If the number of digits of the character data is larger than the number,
Delete the lower digit of the character data by the difference of the number of digits,
The number of digits of the character data is smaller than the number of digits of the rectangular frame.
In this case, the difference between the number of digits, the digit side below the rectangular frame
And an arithmetic unit for executing an arithmetic process for printing with a blank .

[0010] According to the above configuration, the information is input and stored in advance.
Document data (character data, number of digits data, etc.)
The rectangular frame of the standard paper for printing this document data.
(Rectangular frame specifying the document print area)
In this case, the following matching is performed. That is, printing
At the time of printing, the format of the rectangular frame
The size of the shape frame, the number of digits of the rectangular frame, etc.) depends on the image reader.
The operation means of the document printing apparatus reads this image.
Input the text data, recognize the rectangular frame format,
The size of the character data printed in the rectangular frame of the data matches
If not, use a character size that fits the rectangular frame.
And change the size of the characters to be printed in the rectangular frame.
You. Also, the text to be printed on the rectangular frame for the number of digits of the rectangular frame
If the number of digits of the character data is large,
The lower digit of the character data is deleted, while the rectangular frame
The number of digits of the character data to be printed is smaller than the number of digits
In this case, the difference between the number of digits, the digit side below the rectangular frame
Is blank, and then the result of this calculation is
Execute printing.

[0011]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

Here, as an example, a case where the created address book data is printed on a postcard in the card format data creation system in the document creation apparatus will be described as an example.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a word processor to which the present invention is applied.

In FIG. 1, an input device 101 includes a character input key serving as a means for creating document data, a print key for inputting a print execution command (here, an example of a postcard address print is a print key. Keys for selecting address printing keys), numbers and matrices (matrix is a matrix-like display field for designating print items displayed on a screen as shown in FIG. 6C, for example).
Numeric keys), and a key indicating the end of the input (hereinafter referred to as an execution key).

The display device 102 is a display such as a CRT or a liquid crystal for displaying created document data and a print operation menu.

The storage device 105 is a device that stores document data 103, a print form, a form for specifying print items, a print management table 104, and the like on a memory.

The document data is created by the user via the input device 101, and an address book file in which a postal code, an address, a name, etc. used for an address of a postcard or the like is recorded is also one of the document data. FIG. 6A shows an example of the address file. In the address file of the present example, two addresses and one name can be written for each postcard for the address and the name (for the address and the name, as described below, the user can arbitrarily specify the print items by the print item). A case where two addresses are listed side by side is a case where a town name and a street address are described in an address 1, and a name of a building or a room number thereof is described in an address 2. For example, the address 2 is unnecessary. If so, leave it blank.)

The print form is a form as shown in FIG. 6B and FIG. 7, and the address file in FIG. 6A described above corresponds to this.

FIG. 6C shows a form for specifying print items.
This also corresponds to the print form described above, and the zip code, address 1, address 2, name 1,
The name 2 is an item display name corresponding to the layout of the print form in FIG. 6B, and the right column is such that the item name display in the left column of FIG. The number of items that can be displayed at a time is three here,
When the number of print items is four or more, the matrix can be switched and displayed by key operations of <next> and <previous>.
In this example, the first item in the matrix is the postal code,
Address 1 and Address 2 and the items that appear next are Name 1 and Name 2).

For example, through the above matrix, FIG.
As shown in FIG. 6 (c), FIG.
If the item name display in the left column is designated in the order of zip code, address 1, address 2, name 1, name 2, the printout is arranged as shown in FIG. The specific zip code, address, and name in the fields are automatically read and printed.
Instead, as shown in FIG. 6D, the item name display in the left column of FIG.
If designation is made in the order of address 2, address 1, name 2, name 1, the arrangement of addresses 1 and 2 shown in FIG. 6B is switched, and the arrangement of names 1 and 2 is switched. Unnecessary ones among postal code, address 1, address 2, name 1, and name 2 are shown in FIG.
The corresponding part in the right column of the print item specification shown in (c) and (d) is left blank.

The print management table 104 stores data on print items designated as described above and data on a print format created on the basis of image data to be described later (information on form printing such as address printing). Each is managed and provided for printing.

A printing apparatus 106 prints the document data 103 in accordance with the data in the print management table 104.

The reading device 107 is, for example, an image scanner, and constitutes a sheet reading means for reading a format of a fixed size sheet having a rectangular frame for designating a document printing area and converting the format into image data. For example, by setting a postcard, an image of the postcard is converted into dot data (hereinafter, referred to as image data).

The control device 108 serves as a print format matching means (arithmetic means) for automatically matching the print format of character data to be printed in the rectangular frame in the document data 103 based on the image data. Here, image data is input, and based on the input data, the format of the rectangular frame (for example, a cell in the postal code entry box) is recognized, and the format of the rectangular frame and the rectangular shape of the stored document data are used. The compatibility of the character data to be printed on the frame is determined, and arithmetic processing for matching the print format of the character data to the rectangular frame format is executed.

As shown in FIG. 2, the control unit 108 includes an input information control unit 201 which mediates the transmission and reception of information signals to and from the input device 101, and a print item item designation form stored in the storage device 105. And input device 101
A print item designation unit 202 for designating a print item based on a print item designation signal from (matrix selection by a user's numeric keypad operation), and document data and a print item designation form as shown in FIGS. And a display control unit 203 for controlling the display device 102 to display the designated contents and a print form; a read information control unit 204 for controlling the reading device 107 for converting image data; and read image data (for example, a government-made postcard). ), A postcard information recognizing unit 205 for recognizing postcard information such as a postal code input field (rectangular frame) from a postal code input field, and a print management table 104 for managing information for performing address printing from print item designation data and the like. And a print management table information control unit 206 for automatically creating a document. Includes a print control unit 207 that performs printing control of (address book data) and print management table 104 of the call printing device information 106.

The print item designation section 202, postcard information recognition section 205, and print management table information control section 206 are realized by data processing functions using a microcomputer.

Here, the operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.
This will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 3 to 5
5 is an operation flow for printing a destination name performed by the control device 108.

In the process 301 shown in FIG.
When a destination printing key is input from No. 1, a signal for starting destination printing is generated to the input information control unit 201. The input information control unit 201 sends a signal for starting address printing to the print item designation unit 202, and the next process 302 is performed based on the signal.

In the process 302, the print item designation unit 202 calls the print item designation form data as shown in FIG. 6C from the storage device 105 and sends it to the display control unit 203. The display control unit 203 displays a print item designation form on a screen via the display device 102 based on the transmitted information. Thereafter, when an item to be printed is input (designated) from the matrix using the numeric keypad from the input device 101,
The input information control unit 201 sends the input key information to the print item designation unit 202. The print item specifying unit 202 specifies print items such as those shown in FIGS. 6C and 6D based on the input key information, and displays the contents of the specified print items on the display control unit 2.
Tell 03. At the same time, the item number and print item contents are set in the print management table 104 for each item. The display control unit 203 displays the set contents on the display device 102 according to the information sent from the print item designation unit 202.

After the designation of the print items is completed, the print key is input by inputting the execution key, and the print information creation processing is performed in step 303.

Here, the processing 303 will be described with reference to FIGS.
This will be described in detail below.

In step 303, the print item designation unit 20
2 sends a signal for activating the reader 107 to the read information controller 204.

The reading device 107 reads a set postcard. When the reading device 107 reads the postcard, the reading information control unit 204 converts the rectangle (cell) of the postal code entry column (printing column) into image data (see FIG. 9). This image data is represented by dots. The postcard information recognition unit 205 searches the postal code entry column (rectangular frame) from the converted image data, and acquires the position of the postal code entry column, the rectangle size, and the number of digits (process 401).

As shown in FIG. 8, the method of obtaining the number of print digits in the postal code entry field is obtained by recognizing an empty dot in the horizontal direction of the converted image data. The method of obtaining the position of the postal code entry field is obtained by recognizing the position where the dot starts from the state where the dots in the horizontal direction of the converted image data are empty and the empty state of the dots in the vertical direction of the image data. . The method of obtaining the rectangular size of the postal code entry field is obtained by recognizing the dot length in the horizontal and vertical directions of the converted image data.

A print management table 104 is created by the print management table information control unit 206 together with print designation items and the like based on the information in the postal code entry fields obtained above.

The print management table information control unit 206 acquires the character data (print data) of the postal code stored in the address book of the document data 103 from the storage device 105 (process 402).

Next, the number of characters of the postal code data to be printed is compared with the number of digits of the postal code entry column (the number of digits of the rectangular frame) (process 403). In this comparison, since the number of digits in the postal code entry field will be revised from 5 digits to 7 digits as shown in Fig. 7 in the near future, at that time, use a conventional postcard or use a new one. Or if the stored postal code in the address book has an old number of digits or a new number of digits, the number of characters in the postal code and the number of Is considered in that a mismatch occurs.

As a result of the comparison in the process 403, if the number of characters of the postal code data (character data) and the number of digits of the postal code entry column are the same or the number of print digits of the postal code entry column is large, the postal code data Is output in full, and if there is a difference in the number of digits (if the number of digits in the postal code entry field is larger than the number of postal code digits), leave the lower digit side of the rectangular frame blank for that difference An arithmetic process for inputting data is executed (process 404).

If the number of digits of the postal code data is larger than the number of digits of the postal code entry column, the lower digit of the postal code is deleted by the difference in the number of digits. In other words, take out the postal code data from the upper digit side by the number of digits in the postal code entry field,
It is made possible to input in the postal code entry column (process 405).

The number of digits of the postal code obtained above is also used as the content of the print management table 104 (step 406).

The print management table 104 manages information on destination printing for each item. Among them, the postal code print information is composed of print digit number information of the postal code, print character size information, and print position information.

The information on the number of digits of the postal code is described in (Process 4).
Set the number of print digits of the postal code obtained as a result of step 03).

As shown in FIG. 5, the print character size information of the postal code is obtained by setting the character size of the postal code corresponding to the rectangular size of the postal code entry field obtained from the image data (step 501). ).

Print position information of zip code (print position information)
Is calculated from the position of the postal code entry field obtained from the image data and the rectangular size and the print character size information of the postal code, and it is determined that the postal code (character data) is located at the center of the postal code entry field.

In order to determine the printing position of the postal code, first, as shown in FIG. 9A, a rectangular size circumscribing the postal code (hereinafter referred to as a circumscribed rectangular size) is obtained from each print character size information constituting the postal code. (Process 502).

Next, as shown in FIG. 9B, the center of the postal code entry column is calculated from the position of the postal code entry column obtained from the image data and the rectangular size of the entry column. The calculation formula is (rectangular size of postal code entry column $ 2)
+ The position of the postal code entry field is set, and the X and Y coordinates of the center point are obtained (process 504).

Next, as shown in FIG. 9C, the circumscribed rectangle size of the print character size of the obtained postal code is
Calculate half length. The calculation formula is the acquired circumscribed rectangle size # 2, and the vertical and horizontal lengths are calculated (process 505).

Next, the base point of the print position of the postal code is calculated from the values obtained by the processes 504 and 505. The calculation formula is the center of the postal code entry field minus half the length of the print character size of the postal code with respect to the circumscribed rectangle size (process 506).

The base point coordinates obtained in the process 506 are set as the print position of the postal code, and are set in the print position information of the postal code (process 507). Similarly, the print positions corresponding to the number of print digits of the postal code are calculated (process). 503).

Subsequently, the print control unit 207 prints on a postcard via the printing device 106 according to the information in the print management table 104 (process 304).

[0051]

According to the present invention, standard size paper (e.g., post card) rectangular frame for specifying a document print area (e.g., square cell as a zip code entry column) digits format (squares of
There is a change in the hand of an equal) the character data to be printed on the rectangular frame (e.g. zip code), between the rectangular frame-character data
If there is a formal mismatch (eg, mismatched digits) in
Even in this case, the optimum printing can be performed by automatically adjusting the two just by reading the image on the standard paper . Further, if a mechanism for reading an image of a fixed size paper is provided in the print paper feeding mechanism, it is possible to automatically print the postal code in the postal code entry field even if papers of different formats are mixed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a basic configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of a control device according to the present invention shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an operation flow in address printing.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an operation flow in address printing.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an operation flow in calculating a printing position of a postal code.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of an example of a document and each print item in the card format data creation system.

FIG. 7 is a view showing a result of actually printing input data.

FIG. 8 is a diagram in which a postcard is converted into image data.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a procedure in calculating a printing position of a postal code.

[Explanation of symbols]

101: input device (document creation means), 102: display device, 103: document data, 104: print management table,
105 storage device, 106 printing device, 107 reading device (paper reading device), 108 control device (print format matching device), 202 printing item designation section, 20
5 postcard information recognition unit, 206 print management table information control unit.

Continuation of the front page (56) References JP-A-6-222895 (JP, A) JP-A-7-85013 (JP, A) JP-A-7-114542 (JP, A) JP-A-5-201093 (JP) JP-A-8-221395 (JP, A) JP-A-9-179918 (JP, A) (58) Fields investigated (Int. Cl. ⁶ , DB name) B41J 5/30 G06F 3/12 G06F 17/21 H04N 1/387

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A document creating means for creating document data,
In a document creating apparatus including a storage unit for storing the created document data, a printing unit for printing the stored document data, and a display unit for displaying the stored document data, a document printing area of a fixed size sheet is used. Paper reading means for reading a specified rectangular frame and converting the image data into image data; inputting the image data;
To recognize the format of the rectangular frame,
The size of character data to be printed in the rectangular frame is calculated, and
First, the number of digits of the rectangular frame and the character to be printed in the rectangular frame
Calculate the difference in the number of digits of the data, and
If the number of digits of the character data is large,
Delete the lower digit of the character data
When the number of digits of the character data is smaller than the number of digits of the frame
Is left blank on the lower digit side of the rectangular frame by the difference of the number of digits.
And a calculation unit for performing a calculation process for performing printing . 2. The postal code of a postcard, wherein the rectangular frame of the standard paper is
Number entry field, and the storage means has document data to be printed.
Address book file that records postal code, address, and name
2. The document creation device according to claim 1, wherein the document is stored .