JP3724729B2 - Structured document processing apparatus and program thereof - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
[Field of the Invention]
The present invention relates to processing of structured documents.
[0002]
[Prior art]
It has been proposed to facilitate document management by using image data such as facsimile data as an attached file of a structured document. In this way, image data can be managed by a structured document. However, what kind of processing is to be performed on binary data such as image data must be manually input.
[0003]
[Problems of the Invention]
The basic object of the invention is to provide a structured document containing binary data text conversion, is to make it a process for the text converted binary data can be determined based on the structured document itself (claim 1-4) .
An additional problem in the first and third aspects of the invention is to make it possible to appropriately determine processing using information related to communication when binary data is received.
An additional problem in the inventions of claims 2 and 4 is that the type of processing can be determined using binary data itself.
[0004]
[Structure of the invention]
The structured document processing apparatus according to the present invention provides a structured document for a structured document that includes received image data as binary data that has undergone text conversion, and that also includes data relating to communication obtained at the time of reception as original text data. In the data related to communication in the original text data of the document, a keyword is extracted from the address or telephone number of the sender, the name of the sender, the name of the destination, or the description in the subject field, and according to the extracted keyword, the text An extraction unit for determining the type of processing for the converted binary data and a processing unit for executing the determined type of processing are provided (claim 1).
[0005]
The structured document processing apparatus of the present invention includes the received image data as binary data subjected to text conversion, and the structured document with respect to the structured document including the communication-related data obtained at the time of reception as the original text data. And extracting the keyword by recognizing the text-converted binary data and extracting the keyword, and determining the type of processing for the text-converted binary data according to the extracted keyword, and the determined type of processing And a processing means for executing (claim 2).
[0006]
The structured document processing program according to the present invention includes the received image data as binary data subjected to text conversion, and the structured document including the data related to communication obtained at the time of reception as the original text data. In the data related to communication in the original text data of the document, a keyword is extracted from the address or telephone number of the sender, the name of the sender, the name of the destination, or the description in the subject field, and according to the extracted keyword, the text An extraction instruction for determining the type of processing for the converted binary data and a processing instruction for executing the determined type of processing are provided (claim 3).
[0007]
The structured document processing program according to the present invention includes the received image data as binary data subjected to text conversion, and the structured document including the data related to communication obtained at the time of reception as the original text data. Extraction command and processing of the determined type for character recognition of text-converted binary data in a document and extracting a keyword and determining a processing type for the text-converted binary data according to the extracted keyword And a processing instruction for executing the above (Claim 4) .
[0008]
[Operation and effect of the invention]
In the structured document processing apparatus and processing program of the present invention, information for determining the type of processing of text-converted binary data in the structured document is extracted and processed from the structured document itself. Processing of text-converted binary data in a structured document can be automatically performed by defining the structured document itself (claims 1 to 4 ).
[0009]
The processing of binary data that has been converted to text here is output for display on the display, printing, file transfer, linking to the original structured document as a separate file, etc., and determining the type of processing If these output forms are determined based on information, it is possible to automatically determine how to output text-converted binary data.
[0010]
If information for determining the type of processing is extracted from the original text data, the type of processing can be determined as if the original text data was a keyword for determining the type of processing.
[0011]
In addition, when information for determining the type of processing is extracted from the data related to communication at the time of receiving binary data in the original text data, the description of the transmission source, communication means, communication path, and subject column in e-mail the information regarding the communication, such as, can determine the type of processing (claim 1,3).
[0012]
Furthermore character recognition results to such text conversion keywords in the binary data and determines the type of Zui second base processing, it is possible to perform processing according to the characteristic of binary data (claim 2,4).
[0013]
【Example】
1 to 10 show an embodiment. FIG. 1 shows the usage environment of the structured document processing apparatus 12 of the embodiment. 2 is a LAN, 4 is a facsimile server, 6 is a mail server, 8 is a document management server, and 10 is a client terminal. It is. The facsimile server 4 performs transmission / reception of G3 facsimile and the like via a public telephone line network, and also performs Internet facsimile transmission / reception via the mail server 6 and the like. The facsimile server 4 is a multifunction machine incorporating a printer function, a copy function, an image scanner function, and the like in addition to a facsimile machine, and is a server that performs input / output related to images on the LAN 2.
[0014]
The structured document processing apparatus 12 of the embodiment is incorporated in the facsimile server 4, for example, but may be incorporated in the mail server 6, the document management server 8, the client terminal 10, or the like. Instead of incorporating the hardware of the structured document processing apparatus 12 into the facsimile server 4 or the like, the processing program is stored in the facsimile server 4 or the document management server 8 using the storage medium 14 storing the structured document processing program. Or you may memorize | store in the terminal 10 grade | etc.,.
[0015]
FIG. 2 shows the structure of the structured document processing apparatus 12. Reference numeral 20 denotes a structured document input / output means, and an existing one may be used for the facsimile server 4 or the like. Reference numeral 22 denotes an extracting means, from the structured document itself. Extract information for determining the type of processing to be performed on the text-converted binary data. Here, the binary data is image data that passes through the facsimile server 4 or the like , and is converted into text and embedded in the structured document. For simplicity, text-converted image data or binary data in a structured document before processing may be simply referred to as “image data” or “binary data”. When the structured document after processing is simply referred to as “image data” or “binary data”, it means literal image data or binary data, which is in the form of binary data that has not undergone text conversion.
[0016]
The extraction means 22 extracts the characteristics of the structured document itself, for example, keywords included in the original text data. In particular, the extraction means 22 uses the address or telephone number of the facsimile or the name of the sender from the data related to the communication when the image data (binary data in principle at this time) is received by e-mail or facsimile. The name of the destination, the description in the subject field, etc. are extracted as keywords. Here, the original text data means data having a meaning as text. The extraction unit 22 determines the type of processing based on “emergency” or other keywords obtained when the text-converted binary data in the structured document is recognized. Further, the extraction unit 22 may determine the type of processing based on the size of the image data that has been converted into text, the ratio of the data occupied by the image data portion in the structured document, and the like. 23 is a rule table according to a sender number or sender address such as a facsimile, a sender name, a keyword in a subject in a header field, a keyword when character recognition of binary data, or a size or specific gravity of binary data. A rule for determining the type of processing is stored.
[0017]
The processing unit 24 applies the type of processing determined by the extracting unit 22 to the binary data subjected to text conversion. Since the binary data is converted into text data and stored in the structured document, a decoding means 25 is provided for decoding the text data into the original binary data. As processing types, text-converted image data is decoded into the original image data and displayed on the display unit. Similarly, the original image data is decoded and printed from the printer, transferred to a file, and decoded into image data. Often saved as a separate file and linked with the link name or file path. The file allocation means 26 stores the decoded image data as a separate file and embeds the link name and file path for the decoded image data in the original structured document. Note that embedding a link name or embedding a file path is simply linking.
[0018]
In the binary data processing, conversion to a file format that can be displayed by a browser such as JPG, PNG, GIF, reduction / enlargement of data, or color conversion is often performed. These are conversions to binary data such as image data before output such as display and printing. JPG, PNG, and GIF are the types of formats for image data. The conversion means 27 is for performing conversion such as file format conversion, reduction / enlargement, and color conversion on the binary data. The display / printing means 28 displays the structured document or its image data portion on the screen when the processing type is a screen display of image data in the structured document, and the processing type is output. And for printing a structured document or its image data portion. When the structured document is displayed on the screen, it is preferable to display the original text portion and the portion obtained by converting the other binary data into text in separate windows. The processing unit 29 is for performing other processing on the binary data. For example, the processing unit 29 performs character recognition, and performs processing such as transferring the recognized character to the original text portion with an attribute such as <message>. .
[0019]
FIG. 3 shows the structure of the structured document processing program 30. This structured document processing program 30, as shown in FIG. 1, is stored in an appropriate storage medium 14 or a communication line or the like. Via the facsimile server 4 or the like. In FIG. 3, 32 is an input / output subroutine for the structured document, and existing resources may be used for the facsimile server 4 and the like, and 34 is an extraction subroutine for the processing technique. Determine the type of processing for image data. The method for determining the processing is the same as that described with respect to the extracting means 22 in FIG.
[0020]
A process execution subroutine 36 includes a decode subroutine 37, a file allocation subroutine 38, a conversion subroutine 39, a display / print subroutine 40, and a processing subroutine 41. The processing contents in the processing execution subroutine 36 and the decoding subroutine 37 to processing subroutine 41 attached thereto are the same as those described with respect to the processing means 24 to processing means 29 in FIG. 2, and the decoding subroutine 37 is converted into text data. The converted image data is converted to the original binary data. The file allocation subroutine 38 saves the binary-converted image data as a separate file and embeds link information such as a link name and a file password in the structured document. The conversion subroutine 39 converts the file format, performs conversion such as reduction / enlargement, and color conversion. The display / print subroutine 40 performs output such as file display and printing. The processing subroutine 41 performs character recognition on the binary-converted image data. As described above, regarding the structured document processing program 30, the description regarding the structured document processing apparatus 12 is applied as it is.
[0021]
4 to 6 show examples of structured documents and display examples thereof. FIG. 4 shows a structured document before processing by the processing means. For example, the received G3 facsimile data is encoded by MMR, converted to 7 bits by Base64, and described as text-converted image data in the structured document. is there. In addition, the sender's telephone number (TSI), the date and time of reception, the number of pages, the starting position of facsimile data, etc. are described as original text data. On the other hand, for example, the description in the sender column in the header in the case of TSI or Internet facsimile is used as a keyword, and the type of processing is determined by the description in the TSI or sender column.
[0022]
FIG. 5 shows an example of a structured document obtained by decoding the image data in the structured document of FIG. 4 into binary data, converting the format into a JPG file, and linking it as “FILE2782.JPG”. Although not described in the structured document of FIG. 5, displaying the fact that facsimile data has been received on a predetermined terminal may be added as a process. For example, information on communication in the structured document of FIG. FIG. 6 shows an example in which TSI, reception date and time and the number of pages) and link information are displayed. In addition, when the description in the sender column or subject column in the header of TSI or Internet facsimile matches the specified conditions, it will be sent back to the document management server or other destination etc. It may be added to the process.
[0023]
In the structured document of FIG. 5, the image data file is linked by designating the link name, but it may be linked by designating the file path or the like. 7 and 8, it is designated as a file path that binary data is converted into file2782.jpg and stored in the directory work. Here, when the fact that the facsimile data has been received is displayed on a designated terminal, the display is as shown in FIG. 8, for example.
[0024]
FIG. 9 shows how to convert binary data that has been text-converted in a structured document into a JPEG format file, embed the file path in the structured document, and display the image file “file2782.jpg” on the screen or An example described in a structured document so as to perform processing such as output to a printer is shown. FIG. 10 shows a display example corresponding to this, which is displayed on a predetermined client terminal or the like, and information related to communication (TSI, reception date and time, number of pages, reception quality and facsimile reception ID, header column in the case of Internet facsimile) And the received image data itself is displayed.
[0025]
In the embodiment, the structured document is created by the facsimile server 4 or the like and transmitted to the document management server 8 or the terminal 10, but the structured document is created by the terminal 10 or the document management server 8 and the facsimile server. The type of processing may be determined by 4 or the like and executed.
[0026]
In the embodiment, using the data itself in the structured document, the type of processing to the text-converted binary data in the structured document is determined and executed. Therefore, using the structured document itself, it is possible to automatically determine and execute the type of processing such as display, printing, file transfer, decoding into binary data, linking as a separate file and saving.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a use environment of a structured document processing apparatus according to an embodiment. FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a structured document processing apparatus according to the embodiment. FIG. 3 shows a configuration of a structured document processing program according to the embodiment. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a structured document before processing used in the embodiment. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a structured document created by processing the structured document of FIG. The image data in the converted document is decrypted after canceling the text conversion, stored as “FILE2782.JPG”, and the link name “FILE2782” is embedded.
6 is a diagram illustrating an example of output of the structured document in FIG. 5, in which an original text portion including link information is displayed on the screen.
7 is a diagram showing an example of a structured document created by processing the structured document of FIG. 4. The image data in the original structured document is decoded, separated into another file, and saved. The path name is embedded.
8 is a diagram showing an example of output of the structured document in FIG. 7. FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a structured document created by processing the structured document in FIG. 4, and an image in the original structured document. The data is saved as separate files, and the original text and image portions are displayed on the screen.
10 is a diagram illustrating an output example of the structured document in FIG. 9; FIG.
[Explanation of symbols]
2 LAN
4 Facsimile server 6 Mail server 8 Document management server 10 Terminal 12 Structured document processing device 14 Storage medium 20 Structured document input / output means 22 Extraction means 23 Rule table 24 Processing means 25 Decoding means 26 File allocation means 27 Conversion means 28 Display / Printing means 29 Processing means 30 Structured document processing program 32 Structured document input / output subroutine 34 Processing technique extraction subroutine 36 Processing execution subroutine 37 Decoding subroutine 38 File allocation subroutine 39 File conversion subroutine 40 Display / printing subroutine 41 Processing subroutine

Claims (4)

For structured documents that contain the received image data as binary data that has been converted to text, and that contain the data related to communication obtained at the time of reception as the original text data,
  The keyword is extracted from the address or telephone number of the sender, the name of the sender, the name of the destination, or the description in the subject column in the data related to the communication in the original text data of the structured document, and according to the extracted keyword Extraction means for determining the type of processing for the text-converted binary data;
  A structured document processing apparatus comprising processing means for executing a determined type of processing. For structured documents that contain received image data as binary data that has been converted to text, and that contain data related to communication obtained at the time of reception as original text data,
  Extracting means for character-recognizing text-converted binary data in the structured document to extract a keyword, and determining a type of processing for the text-converted binary data according to the extracted keyword;
  A structured document processing apparatus comprising processing means for executing a determined type of processing. For structured documents that contain received image data as binary data that has been converted to text, and that contain data related to communication obtained at the time of reception as original text data,
  The keyword is extracted from the address or telephone number of the sender, the name of the sender, the name of the destination, or the description in the subject column in the data related to the communication in the original text data of the structured document, and according to the extracted keyword An extraction instruction for determining a type of processing for the text-converted binary data;
  A structured document processing program provided with processing instructions for executing a determined type of processing. For structured documents that include the received image data as binary data that has been converted to text, and that contain the data related to communication obtained at the time of reception as the original text data,
An extraction instruction for character recognition of the text-converted binary data in the structured document to extract a keyword, and determining a type of processing for the text-converted binary data according to the extracted keyword;
A structured document processing program provided with processing instructions for executing a determined type of processing .

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