JP4297755B2 - Image management system and image management program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an image management system that associates and manages image data acquired by an image input device such as a scanner or a digital camera, image data collected from a web, and document image data created by taking the image data.

  Conventionally, image data acquired by an image input device such as a scanner or a digital camera cannot be handled together with an electronic document created from code data by a word processor or the like.

In recent years, however, word processors with various functions such as Microsoft Word (trademark) have become popular, and image data acquired by image input devices such as scanners and digital cameras, and image data collected from the web can be used as word processors. It is generally performed to create a document in which characters, figures, and pictures are mixed by processing on a personal computer together with the electronic document created by the above. And today,
The number of documents that contain such characters, graphics, and pictures and the number of image data that serve as their original images has been increasing, and the need for a system that efficiently manages these documents and images has also increased. Yes.

  In general, when a document is created using an image, an image edited in a format suitable for the document is used instead of pasting the acquired image as it is. Therefore, in order to increase the display speed, editing such as reducing the resolution of the image data, cutting out a partial area of the image, and adjusting the brightness and contrast of the image is performed. Then, the edited image is saved as a new image or pasted into an electronic document. In that case, the location information of the original image is not inherited in the stored or pasted image. Therefore, in order to search for an image before editing from images after editing, all the images need to be browsed and searched, and there is a problem that it takes time and effort.

  Therefore, the image data for the document to be managed and the editing history thereof are associated with each other and stored in the first storage unit, the editing history performed on the image data being edited is temporarily stored, and the stored contents are There is a document management system that includes means for reflecting the first storage means at the end of editing (see Patent Document 1).

  According to this, there is an advantage that initial data can be easily stored when an electronic document is stored, and change work is also easy.

  In addition, there is one that makes it easy to retrieve image data by extracting and displaying important partial images from accumulated image data (see Patent Document 2).

According to this, since the important partial image is extracted as the key area, there is an advantage that it is possible to easily search the document image and determine where the important partial image corresponds to the original document image.
Japanese Patent No. 2723241 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 9-319765

  However, according to the disclosed technology, when editing is based on irreversible processing such as cutting or thinning, the original image cannot be restored, and when reversible processing is performed, the editing history is used to restore the original image. It takes time to return to the image.

  In view of the circumstances described above, an object of the present invention is to provide an image management system and an image management program that can easily and quickly find an original image from an edited image.

The image management system of the reference invention that achieves the above object is an image management system that displays an image and freely edits and manages the edited image.
Storage means for storing image data representing an image and attribute data of the image in association with each other;
Image display means for displaying image data and attribute data stored in the storage means on a screen;
An image editing means for editing the image displayed on the screen and obtaining attribute data of the edited edited image;
Link information giving means for adding at least link information indicating a relationship with an image before being edited by the image editing means to attribute data of the edited image, and storing the link information together with image data representing the edited image; With
When the edited image is displayed on the screen, the image display means freely displays the image before being edited by the image editing means based on the link information.

  In this way, link information indicating the relationship with the image before editing is added to the attribute data of the edited image and stored in the storage means together with the image data representing the edited image. The image before editing can be displayed.

The image management system of the present invention that achieves the above object displays an image image in a graphics mode or a character image in a text mode to freely edit the image image and the character image, and the image image to the character image. In an image management system for creating a document image by inserting it into an image and managing the created document image,
First storage means for storing image data representing the image image and attribute data of the image image in association with each other;
Second storage means for storing character data representing the character image;
Image display means for displaying one or both of the image data stored in the first storage means and the character data stored in the second storage means on a screen;
A first image editing means for editing any one of the image image and the character image displayed on the screen, and obtaining attribute data of the edited edited image image or the edited character image;
Link information indicating a relationship with at least the image image before being edited by the first image editing means is added to the attribute data of the edited image image, and the first image image data together with the edited image data representing the edited image image. Link information adding means to be stored in the storage means;
Second image editing means for creating the document image by inserting the edited image into the character image or the edited character image displayed on the screen;
The image display means, when to display the document image on the screen, before the based on the link information of the inserted the edited images in the document image, is edited by the first image editing means The image is freely displayed.

  As described above, the link information indicating the relationship with the image image before editing is added to the attribute data of the edited image image and stored in the storage unit together with the edited image data representing the edited image image. Even if a document image is created by inserting an edited image image into a character image, the image image before editing can be displayed easily and quickly from the edited image image in the document image.

  As means for achieving the above object, the present invention may be a program for causing a computer to realize the functions of the image management system, and a recording medium on which the program is recorded.

  According to the image management system and the image management program of the present invention, when an image image or a character image displayed on the screen is edited, an image before editing can be easily and quickly searched from the edited image. The history of the edited image can be easily understood, and the edited image can be edited again without degrading the image quality of the displayed image. In addition, the edited image can be easily inserted into another document.

Embodiments of the image management system of the present invention will be described below.
(First embodiment)
FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an embodiment of an image management system of the present invention.

  The image management system according to the present embodiment shown in FIG. 1 freely displays image images such as photographs taken with a digital camera, printed images read with a scanner, or character images such as an electronic document created with a word processor on a display. In addition, it is possible to create a document image in which a photograph or the like is mixed by inserting the image image into a character image, and manage the created document image in association with the original image image or the character image.

  The image management system according to the present embodiment is configured as an application program incorporated in a personal computer, and includes first storage means 11 that stores image data representing an image and attribute data of the image in association with each other, and a character image. Image processing is performed on second storage means 12 for storing character data to be represented, image data stored in first storage means 11 and character data stored in second storage means 12 or both. Any one of the image display means 13 to be displayed on the display 20, the image creation means 14 to create a character image or a document image by using a document creation program, and the image image and the character image displayed on the display 20. Edit one of them and edit each edited image or edited character image. First image editing means 15 for obtaining attribute data, and link information indicating a relationship with at least the image image before being edited by the first image editing means is added to the attribute data of the edited image image, and the edited image image The edited image data representing the character image is stored in the first storage means, or link information indicating the relationship with the character image before being edited by the first image editing means is added to the character image data to represent the character image Link information adding means 17 for storing character image data in the second storage means, and second image editing means 16 for creating a document image by inserting the edited image into the character image or edited character image displayed on the screen. A keyboard 21 for inputting a predetermined command; a mouse 22 for selecting a menu displayed on the display 20; and a first storage of the image management system. A scanner 23 for reading image data stored in the means 11, a printer 24 for outputting a print based on the data stored in the first and second storage means 11 and 12 of this image management system, and a digital image such as a digital camera And a driver 18 for driving an interface 25 for connecting an input device or connecting to a network.

  Here, when the first image editing means 15 edits an image image by cutting out a predetermined area of the image displayed on the display 20, the image display means 13 sets the cutting target area to an arbitrary shape with a marker or the like. The size can be displayed freely.

  The link information giving means 17 occupies image data and character data storage destination information representing an image image and a character image before being edited, and an image image and a character image before being edited. Area information indicating the position and history information such as the number of edits are added as link information.

  When the edited image image, the edited character image, or the document image is displayed on the display, the image display means 13 stores the storage destination information, area information, and history information added to each attribute data by the link information giving means 17. It has a selection menu for selecting either, and when the area information is selected by the selection menu, an image image or a character image before being edited can be freely displayed.

  In the image management system of the present embodiment, image data input using a digital image input device such as a scanner or a digital camera, or image data collected from the Internet Web or the like is stored in the first storage unit, for example, Microsoft Corporation Character image data created using a keyboard by an electronic document creation program such as Word (trademark) is stored in the second storage unit, and attribute data is added to each stored data. Has been. Also, the first and second storage units have data that has been edited to change, for example, resolution, size, color tone, brightness, font, format, etc., and image data representing an image image. Character image data representing a document image inserted into character data representing a character image is also stored, and link information with the original data before editing is added to the edited data so that the relationship before and after editing can be understood.

  The image data of this embodiment is in a general-purpose format such as BMP, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, etc., and the character data is a word processor such as Word (trademark) of Microsoft Corporation or Ichitaro (trademark) of JUSTSYSTEM. The created one is used.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of an image file in which image data of an edited image is stored.

  The image data shown in FIG. 2 is stored in an image file 30 in a standardized format. The image file 30 includes an undefined area 31 in which attribute data is stored, an image area 32 in which image data is stored, and a thumbnail area in which thumbnail image data obtained by reducing the image image represented by the image data is stored. There are 33.

  In the undefined area 31, for example, an exposure time when an image is taken with a digital camera, an F number, ISO sensitivity, exposure, a file name, link information 35 indicating a storage location of the original image, and the like are recorded.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an application screen of the image processing tool used in the image management system of the present embodiment.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the image processing tool is an application that manages image data and character data.

  When the image processing tool is activated, the illustrated window is displayed. The image processing tool displays a title bar composed of program names, icons, window minimization, maximization, and close, a menu bar 101 composed of files, displays, settings, tools, help, and the like, and displays files as folders. Folder view 102 to be displayed and an image view 103 to display thumbnail images 107 and file names 108 with reduced image images.

  Here, an SDI (Single Dialog Interface) application operating on Windows (registered trademark) is shown, but an MDI (Multi Dialog Interface) may be used.

  In the folder view 102, subfolders “book”, “trip”, “business”, “paper”, “poster”, “newspacer”, “home”, and “desk” are displayed below the “Image” folder 105. 106 is provided.

  In the present embodiment, for the sake of simplicity, an image processing tool configured by an application that operates on Windows (registered trademark), which is an operating system of Microsoft Corporation, is used. The processing tool may be configured by an application that runs on Linux, Apple's MacOS (registered trademark), or the like, and is not necessarily limited to the operating system.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an “Image” folder as an example.

  The “Image” folder shown in FIG. 4 is expressed using C: ¥, which is the absolute path designation of Windows (registered trademark).

  For example, in the “businesses” subfolder 106 expressed by \ Image \ business \, a file “Image1” in a bmp (bitmap) format, a file “Document1” in a doc (document) format, and a file in a tif (TIFF) format A file “Image2”, a file “Image3” in the jpg (JPEG) format, a file “Document2” in the jtd format, a file “Document3” in the xls format, and a file “Document4” in the ppt format are stored.

  The image view 103 displays image data stored in a subfolder (here, “businesses”) 106 selected on the folder view 102, an icon of document data, and a reduced image (thumbnail image) 107. Yes.

  In addition, the subfolder 106 of the “Image” folder 105 includes a “trip” folder expressed by \ Image \ trip \, a “book” subfolder 106 expressed by \ Image \ book \, and the like. Contains similar files.

  Here, the document data can display the first page or the representative page as the thumbnail image 107.

  The image view 103 displays file names corresponding to each image data, document data icon, and thumbnail image 107.

  In the present embodiment, an icon or thumbnail image 107 in the image view 103 is selected by left-clicking the mouse, and an image editing tool for editing an image image by double-clicking the mouse (first image editing in the present embodiment) Corresponds to the means).

  FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the image processing tool used in the image management system of this embodiment.

  As shown in FIG. 5, when the image processing tool is activated, the window shown in FIG. 3 is displayed (S-1).

  Here, the case where Microsoft Word (trademark) is used as an electronic document creation application will be described as an example. There are a case where a new Word (trademark) document is created (S-4) and a case where an existing Word (trademark) document is opened (S-16).

  When creating a new document, during or after document creation, select the pull-down menu, select "Image Data" on the image processing tool, and open it by left-clicking the mouse to start the image editing tool (S -6). On the other hand, when an existing Word (trademark) document is opened (S-16), image data in the document is selected and opened by left-clicking the mouse (S-17), an image editing tool is created as in the case of creating a new document. Is activated (S-6).

  When the displayed image is edited (S-7), the image is edited by the image editing tool (S-8), and when the edited image is newly saved (S-9, 10), the original image is edited. Link information indicating the relationship with the image and edit history are recorded as attribute information (S-11) and saved as edit image data (S-12).

  In addition, when the entire or partial area of the edited image is selected (S-13) and the copied image area is pasted into a Word (trademark) document, the link information indicating the relationship with the original image and the editing history are used as attribute information. (S-14) and pasted to a Word (trademark) document (S-15). On the other hand, when the edited image is not newly saved (S-9, 10) and the edited image data is discarded (S-18), the job by the image editing tool is ended (S-19). .

  When browsing the displayed image (S-7), right-click the mouse, select the menu bar, and display link information and editing history indicating the relationship with the original image as attribute information on the image editing tool. When link information or editing history is selected, a new image editing tool is activated and the original image is displayed (S-21).

  Next, editing of an image by the first editing unit will be described.

  6 and 7 are diagrams illustrating an image editing tool for editing an image image.

  As shown in FIG. 6, when the image editing tool 1 or 2 is activated, editing such as image rotation, brightness adjustment, contrast adjustment, binarization, area selection, segmentation, deletion (eraser), character recognition processing by OCR, etc. Tool 110 is displayed.

FIG. 6A is a diagram illustrating a state in which the image editing tool 1 that can cut an image by region selection is activated. A rectangular area indicated by a broken line (point a in the upper left,
The lower right b point) 111 shows a state where the region to be cut is selected.

  Note that the rectangular area 111 indicated by a broken line can be arbitrarily selected by operating the mouse.

  FIG. 6B is a diagram illustrating a state in which the image editing tool 1 that cuts a rectangular region 111 indicated by a broken line is executed. When the image editing tool 1 is executed, a window showing the image editing tool 2 is activated.

  The image editing tool among the image processing tools used in the present embodiment is configured as a program capable of starting a plurality of windows in this way.

  By executing the cut image editing tool 1, a rectangular area 111 surrounded by coordinates a (X1, Y1) and b (X2, Y2) is displayed on the image correction tool 2, and at the same time, the image with the image before cutting. Link information indicating the relationship is given by the link information giving means. The link information constitutes attribute data of the image of the displayed rectangular area.

  The attribute data to which the link information is added is stored in the first storage unit in association with the image image of the rectangular area 111 cut out by the execution of the image editing tool 1.

  Here, in the area selection shown in FIG. 6, a rectangular area is specified, but it is not necessarily a rectangle, and points a, b, c, d, e, f are not necessarily shown in FIG. 7A. Alternatively, a polygonal region 112 surrounded by a broken line may be selected. When the polygonal area 112 shown in FIG. 7A is selected and the image editing tool 1 is executed, a window of the image editing tool 2 in which the polygonal area 112 shown in FIG. 7B is displayed is activated.

  As described above, the designated area may be an area having any shape as long as it can be shown as a coordinate value.

  8 to 10 are diagrams illustrating a state in which the image editing tool 2 is activated.

  As shown in FIGS. 8 to 10, after the edited image cut out by the image editing tool 1 is stored in the first storage means, when the image editing tool 2 is activated, “image rotation” and “brightness adjustment”. , “Contrast adjustment”, “binarization”, “area selection”, “cutout”, “erase (eraser)”, “character recognition processing by OCR”, and the like are displayed. Now, for example, when the selection menu is activated by operating the mouse on the image, "Cut", "Copy", "Paste", "Grouping", "Order", "Set AutoShape Default", "Object In addition to the selection menu display on general Windows (registered trademark) such as “Formatting”, “Hyperlink”, etc., the operation based on the attribute data of the edited image cut out using the image editing tool 1, that is, “ A selection menu 115 such as “link” 116, “edit operation history list” 117, and “image area display on original image” 118 is displayed.

  As shown in FIG. 8, when “Link to original image” 116 is selected from the selection menu 115, a new menu 119 is cut by the image editing tool 1 “C: \ Image \ businesses \ Image1.bmp”. The folder, subfolder, and file name in which the image before being stored is stored are displayed.

  The selection menu 115 can be activated by right-clicking on the mouse image, selecting the menu bar 101, or the like.

  As shown in FIG. 9, when “display image area on original image” 118 is selected from the selection menu 115, the image editing tool 3 is activated and the image displayed on the image editing tool 2 is cut out. The previous image and the selected line segment are displayed.

  Here, the line segment in which the area is selected is displayed as a solid line, but the entire area can also be displayed with a color different from other areas, a transparent color, or the like.

  As shown in FIG. 10, when the “edit operation history list” 117 is selected from the selection menu 115, the edited image 1, edited image 2, edited image 3, edited image 4,.・ ・ Is displayed for viewing. When the displayed edited image is selected by left-clicking the mouse, only the edited image can be displayed. In this case, the recorded editing operation may be added to the edited image and displayed.

  As a method to manage the editing history on the image editing tool and the link information with the original image before editing, record each other's relationship and editing history by the file name of each data separately from image data and character data Log information can be left as a text file. In addition, as information on a standardized image format such as EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format), a relationship between data and an edit history may be managed. Management by a standardized image format increases the versatility of the system. The image image and the character image managed by the image management system of the present invention can be prevented from moving to a folder not managed by the image management system by a mouse operation or the like on ordinary Windows (registered trademark). By doing so, it is possible to eliminate broken links due to inadvertent movement of files to unmanaged locations. Further, the relationship between image images, between image images and character images, and between character images may be given as attribute information. For example, the image image 1 is a side view, top view, or perspective view of the image image 2, the detailed description of the image image 3 is described in the character image 1, or the character image 2 is a summary of the character image 3. Is added as attribute information. Thereby, the relationship between each data becomes clear and additional information can be easily taken out.

  Next, editing of an image image inserted into a character image by the second editing means will be described.

  FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an image in a document image edited by the second editing unit.

  The document image shown in FIG. 11 is a Word (trademark) document created by using Microsoft (trademark) as an electronic document creation application, and the image image 120 edited by the first editing means. Has been inserted.

  Here, since the insertion of the image 120 is performed by known means, description thereof is omitted here.

  Now, when the image 120 in the document image is designated and the mouse is right-clicked, a selection menu is displayed. Further, when the mouse is left-clicked, the image editing tool 2 is activated, and the cut edited image before being inserted into the document image is displayed. When the mouse is left-clicked on the image editing tool 2, a selection menu 115 is displayed. When the “image area display on the original image” 118 is selected from the selection menu 115 and the mouse is left-clicked, the original image is displayed. An image editing tool 3 for displaying the image 120 is displayed. Therefore, a predetermined region is again cut out from the original image displayed on the image editing tool 3 to create an edited image, and the second editing means is used to insert the image into a character image to create a new document image. be able to.

  Here, the image editing rule 3 for displaying the original image can be directly called from the screen on which the document image is displayed, and the display process of the image editing tool 2 can be omitted.

  Next, the OCR function of the image display means will be described.

  The image display means of this embodiment classifies a marker display means for displaying a marker surrounding a predetermined area of the display, and whether or not the image image in the predetermined area displayed on the marker display means is a diagram. Image classification means, and character recognition display means for displaying a character image after the character image is recognized and recognized by the image classification means as being a diagram.

  The link information adding means adds link information indicating the relationship with at least the image image before being edited by the first image editing means to the attribute data of the character image displayed on the character recognition display means, and recognizes it. The recognized character data representing the written character image can be stored, for example, in the first storage means.

  FIG. 12 is a diagram for explaining the OCR function of the image display means.

  As shown in FIG. 12, in the image displayed by the image editing tool 1, an OCR area 121 for character recognition is surrounded by a solid line by a marker display means. When the character recognition display means (OCR) displayed as the menu of the image editing tool 1 is left-clicked with the mouse, OCR reading is executed and the OCR window is opened. In the OCR window, the character image 122 that has been recognized by the character recognition display means (OCR) is displayed.

  Here, the displayed character image 122 is associated with attribute data indicating the OCR area 121 surrounded by the marker display means as link information, and the original image before character recognition is displayed from the character image 122. It can be made to.

  OCR reading is performed by general processing steps such as binarization of a read image, character extraction, character size normalization, feature amount extraction, and feature amount template matching.

  Here, the determination means for determining the existence probability of the diagram among the image images displayed in the predetermined area displayed on the marker display means, and character recognition is performed when the determination means determines that the image is a character image, A character image recognized by the character recognition display means may be displayed.

  FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a case where a character image and an edited image that have been subjected to OCR reading are inserted into a character image created by an electronic document creation application.

  As shown in FIG. 13, a diagram area and an image area are selected from an image image 120 displayed by the image editing tool 1, and then they are dragged into a character image created by an electronic document application by using windows ( It can also be moved by a one-action operation of a trademark. By this dragging, text data obtained by OCR reading is automatically pasted into a character image created by the electronic document application.

Also, the degree of similarity for each character in template matching is quantified as a score, the sum of the scores of the entire designated area is calculated, this is normalized by the number of characters, and whether or not it is a character area (diagram area) by threshold processing You may make it determine automatically. If the character area is determined, the character recognition result can be automatically displayed in the OCR window shown in FIG. Further, attribute data for automatically associating with the diagram area from which OCR reading has been performed is automatically generated. For example, a text file is automatically generated based on a character recognition result obtained by OCR reading, and a sequential unique file name is assigned. Similarly, a sequential unique file name is automatically assigned to the image area from which OCR reading has been performed, and attribute data for associating with the image area from which OCR reading has been performed is generated. The attribute data adding method may be a method in which the image file is set in a standardized format and added to the format, or a log file is separately provided as text information.
(Second Embodiment)
The image management system of the second embodiment is different from the first embodiment in that the storage means is not provided with a function of storing image data and character data separately, and the editing means The difference is that the editing image is not provided with the function of inserting and editing the edited image into the character image, but the other points are common. The functions of the text image or image image editing unit, link information providing unit, and the like are the same as the functions for the single image described in the first embodiment, and thus description thereof is omitted here.

It is a functional block diagram showing an embodiment of an image management system of the present invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the image file in which the image data of the edit image image was stored. It is a figure which shows the application screen of the image processing tool used for the image management system of this embodiment. FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an “Image” folder as an example. It is a flowchart which shows the effect | action of the image processing tool used for the image management system of this embodiment. It is a figure which shows the image editing tool which edits an image image. It is a figure which shows the image editing tool which edits an image image. It is a figure which shows the state which started the image editing tool 2. FIG. It is a figure which shows the state which started the image editing tool 2. FIG. It is a figure which shows the state which started the image editing tool 2. FIG. It is a figure which shows the image image in the document image edited by the 2nd editing means. It is a figure explaining the OCR function of an image display means. It is a figure which shows the case where the character image and edit image which performed OCR reading are inserted in the character image created with the electronic document creation application.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 1st storage means 12 2nd storage means 13 Image display means 14 Image creation means 15 1st image editing means 16 2nd image editing means 17 Link information provision means 18 Driver 20 Display 21 Keyboard 22 Mouse 23 Scanner 24 Printer 25 Interface 30 Image file 31 Undefined area 32 Image area 33 Thumbnail area 35 Link information 100 Title bar 101 Menu bar 102 Folder view 103 Image view 105 Image folder 106 Subfolder 107 Thumbnail image 108 File name 110 Editing tool 111 Rectangular area 112 Polygonal area 115 Selection menu 116 Link to original image 117 List of editing operation history 118 Image area display on original image 119 New menu 12 0 Image image 121 OCR area 122 Character image

Claims (9)

A graphic mode image image or a text mode character image is displayed, the image image and the character image are freely edited, and the document image is created by inserting the image image into the character image. In an image management system for managing the document image,
First storage means for storing image data representing the image image and attribute data of the image image in association with each other;
Second storage means for storing character data representing the character image;
Image display means for displaying one or both of the image data stored in the first storage means and the character data stored in the second storage means on a screen;
A first image editing means for editing any one of the image image and the character image displayed on the screen, and obtaining attribute data of the edited edited image image or the edited character image;
Link information indicating a relationship with at least the image image before being edited by the first image editing means is added to the attribute data of the edited image image, and the first image image data together with the edited image data representing the edited image image. Link information adding means to be stored in the storage means;
A second image editing means for creating the document image by inserting the edited image into the character image or the edited character image displayed on the screen;
The image display means, when to display the document image on the screen, before the based on the link information of the inserted the edited images in the document image, is edited by the first image editing means An image management system that freely displays the image. The link information adding unit adds link information indicating a relationship with the character image before being edited by the first image editing unit to the attribute data of the edited character image, and an edited character representing the edited character image 2. The image management system according to claim 1 , wherein the image management system stores the data together with the data in the second storage means. The link information adding means includes the storage location information of the image data and the character data representing the image image and the character image before the editing, and the image image and the character image before the editing, respectively. The area information indicating the position is added as the link information,
The image display means has selection means for selecting the storage location information or the area information when the edited image image or edited character image is displayed on the screen, and the area information is selected by the selection means. The image management system according to claim 2 , wherein the image image or the character image before being edited is freely displayed when the image is edited. The first image editing means, when editing the images by cutting a predetermined region of the screen, according to claim 1, wherein the to freely display the cut target region on the image display unit Image management system. The image display means, according to claim 1, characterized in that to display all or part of the same plurality edited by the first image editing means to the image the image is performed for editing images to the screen The image management system described. The image data, which has been stored in the standardized format image file, the attribute data, image management according to claim 1, characterized in that it is recorded in the undefined areas of the image file system. The image display means includes
Marker display means for displaying a marker surrounding a predetermined area of the screen;
Image classification means for dividing the image displayed in the predetermined area displayed on the marker display means;
Character recognition display means for displaying a character image recognized by character recognition of the image classified by the image classification means,
The link information giving means adds link information indicating a relationship with at least the image image before being edited by the first image editing means to the attribute data of the character image displayed on the character recognition display means, image management system according to claim 1, wherein the to store recognized character data representing the recognized character image in the first storage means. The image display means includes
Marker display means for displaying a marker surrounding a predetermined area of the screen;
Determination means for determining the existence probability of a diagram of the image displayed in the predetermined area displayed on the marker display means;
Character recognition display means for performing character recognition when the determination means determines that the image is a character image, and displaying the recognized character image;
The link information giving means adds link information indicating a relationship with at least the image image before being edited by the first image editing means to the attribute data of the character image displayed on the character recognition display means, image management system according to claim 1, wherein the to store recognized character data representing the recognized character image in the first storage means. Displaying a graphics mode image image or text mode character image on a computer to freely edit the image image and the character image, and inserting the image image into the character image to create a document image; In an image management program having a function of managing the created document image,
First storage means for storing image data representing the image image and attribute data of the image image in association with each other;
Second storage means for storing character data representing the character image;
Image display means for displaying one or both of the image data stored in the first storage means and the character data stored in the second storage means on a screen;
A first image editing means for editing any one of the image image and the character image displayed on the screen, and obtaining attribute data of the edited edited image image or the edited character image;
Link information indicating a relationship with at least the image image before being edited by the first image editing means is added to the attribute data of the edited image image, and the first image image data together with the edited image data representing the edited image image. First link information providing means for storing in the storage means;
A second image editing means for creating the document image by inserting the edited image into the character image or the edited character image displayed on the screen;
The image display means, when displaying the document image on the screen, replaces the edited image in the document image based on the link information of the edited image inserted in the document image. An image management program having a function of freely displaying an image image before being edited by the first image editing means.

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