JP5251652B2 - Form image filing system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a form image filing system for storing image data of a form read by a form reading apparatus in a storage device.

  The conventional form image filing system sequentially reads the description information of the form continuously conveyed by the high-speed scanner, stores the image data of all the forms read by assigning serial numbers in the storage device, and also conveys it. The image data of the form in which the error has occurred is inserted into the image data of the form that has been read after the re-reading is completed, and the image data of all the forms is stored (for example, Patent Document 1). reference).

  In addition, the amount of image data in a form read by a high-speed scanner is large, and if the image data of all read forms is stored in a storage device and stored, the image data of the form stored in the storage device is enormous. Therefore, a data table describing the image data of the form that needs to be stored in association with the form type indicating the form type is provided, and only the image data of the form that needs to be stored is stored by referring to the data table. Some are stored in the apparatus (for example, see Patent Document 2).

JP 2004-259080 A (paragraph “0062” to paragraph “0073”, FIG. 3) Japanese Patent Application No. 2008-157255 (paragraphs “0024” to “0036”, FIG. 6)

  However, in the above-described conventional technology, when the reading of the form fails due to an abnormality of the form reading device, the form that needs to be stored due to the fact that the type of form cannot be recognized or the reading order of the form increases. There is a problem that image data of a form that does not need to be stored or that does not need to be stored is stored.

  For example, consider a case in which image data of the front and back surfaces is acquired for a combination of a main form and an attached form as shown in FIG. Here, as the storage rule of the image data acquired in the data table, the image data of the front side of the main form A and the front side and the back side of the attached form A-1 are stored, and the back side of the main form A It is assumed that the image data, the image data of the back side of the main form i, and the image data of the front and back sides of the attached form i are not stored.

  In this case, when all the images are successfully acquired, the image data is stored according to the rules. Here, when reading of the back side 92 of the main form A which is the first form and the front face 95 of the third main form A fails, the main side of the second attached form A-1 The image data of the face 93 is discarded as the image data of the back face 92 of the first main form a, and the back face 96 of the third and subsequent main forms A, the front face 97 of the attached form I-1, and Since the image data of the back surface 98 is stored as the image data of the attached form A-1 (form bundle 1), the image data of the form that originally needs to be stored (the image data of the front face 93 of the attached form A-1) ) And the image data of the form that originally does not need to be stored (image data of the back side 96 of the main form A, the front side 97 and the back side 98 of the attached form A-1).

  An object of the present invention is to solve such a problem, and an object of the present invention is to reliably store only image data of a form that needs to be stored even when a form reading abnormality occurs.

Therefore, the present invention provides a form reading means for reading image data of a plurality of forms including a main form and an attached form in a form image filing system for storing and storing form image data read by a form reading apparatus in a form storage means. A form reading abnormality detecting means for detecting the success or failure of reading the form from the form image data read by the form reading means, and a form type for recognizing the form type from the image data of the main form read by the form reading means Recognizing means and storage means for preliminarily storing form image storage necessity information indicating image data of main forms and attached forms that need to be stored in association with the type of form, and the form reading abnormality detecting means is the first time when an error is detected by the reading of the form, read again the image data of該帳form in the form reading means to After reading the image data of a form of Te, of the image data of a form read again, according to the document image stored necessity information the form type recognition means is extracted based on the type of a form recognized, necessary storage Only image data of main forms and attached forms is stored in form storage means, and image data of main forms and attached forms that do not need to be stored is discarded .

  According to the present invention as described above, it is possible to reliably store only the image data of a form that needs to be stored even when a form reading abnormality occurs.

The block diagram which shows the flow of a process of the form reading apparatus in an Example The block diagram which shows the structure of the form image filing system in an Example The block diagram which shows the structure of the form reading apparatus in an Example Explanatory drawing of the form image storage necessity information in the embodiment The flowchart which shows the form image storage process in an Example Explanatory drawing which shows the form image reading result in an Example Explanatory drawing which shows the form image reacquisition screen in an Example Explanatory drawing of the form image storage processing in the embodiment Explanatory drawing of form image storage processing in the conventional example

  Embodiments of a form image filing system according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the form image filing system in the embodiment.

  In FIG. 2, reference numeral 1 denotes a form reading device as form reading means, which is installed in a financial institution or the like, and arithmetic and control means such as a CPU (Central Processing Unit), MPU (Micro Processing Unit), a magnetic disk, a semiconductor memory, etc. Storage means, a scanner, a keyboard, an input means such as a mouse for acquiring image data by optically reading a form, a display means such as a liquid crystal display, a communication means, and the like. This form reading device 1 is connected to another device through a communication line 4 so as to be able to communicate with each other.

  The form read by the form reading apparatus 1 includes, for example, various forms for applying for various deliveries, investment trust forms such as investment trust purchase application forms, and main forms such as foreign currency deposit application forms and identification documents attached thereto. One or a plurality of forms composed of forms, and the main form has a predetermined format.

  Details of the configuration of the form reading apparatus 1 will be described later.

  Reference numeral 2 denotes a server, which is a server computer that is installed in a financial institution or the like and stores the form image data in the form database 3 as a form storage means in order to store the form image data read by the form reading device 1. The server 2 includes calculation and control means such as a CPU and MPU, storage means such as a magnetic disk and a semiconductor memory, and communication means. The server 2 can communicate with other devices such as the form reading device 1 via the communication line 4. It is connected to the.

  As described above, the form image filing system includes the form reading device 1, the server 2, the form database 3, the communication line 4, and the like. The image data of the form read by the form reading device 1 is sent to the form database 3 via the server 2. Can be stored and stored.

  FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating the configuration of the form reading apparatus according to the embodiment. The form reading apparatus 1 will be described with reference to FIG.

  In FIG. 3, reference numeral 11 denotes a display unit, which is a display means such as a CRT or a liquid crystal display.

  An input unit 12 is an input unit such as a keyboard and a mouse.

  A scanner unit 13 includes a CCD (Charge Coupled Device) camera and the like, and is used for reading image data of a form. The scanner unit 13 separates and conveys a document placed on a document suction unit (not shown) one by one by a document separation / conveying unit (not shown), and can read image data on the front and back surfaces of the document. It is like that. That is, the image data of the front and back surfaces of a plurality of forms placed on the form suction unit can be read continuously.

  Reference numeral 14 denotes a storage unit as a storage unit, which is a storage unit such as a magnetic disk or a semiconductor memory. The storage unit 14 stores a control program (software) for controlling the overall operation of the form reading device 1, the number of forms read by the scanner unit 13, image data of each read form, and the like.

  Reference numeral 15 denotes a control unit, which is composed of arithmetic and control means such as a CPU. The control unit 15 includes the display unit 11, the input unit 12, the scanner unit 13, the storage unit 14, and a communication unit (not shown) that controls communication with the apparatus via the communication line 4. The operation is controlled based on a control program (software) stored in the storage unit 14.

  In addition, the control unit 15 has a form identification information consisting of a symbol indicating the form ID described in each form and characters such as alphanumeric characters, a form recognition means for recognizing handwritten characters, etc., and a layout of ruled lines etc. described in the form That is, it also has a form type recognition means for recognizing the form type from the form format (characteristic information of the form).

  The form recognizing unit and the form type recognizing unit may be provided in the server 2 so as to recognize form identification information, handwritten characters, form type, and the like from the form image data received from the form reading apparatus 1.

  Next, the form image storage necessity information stored in the storage unit 14 will be described based on the explanatory diagram of the form image storage necessity information in the embodiment of FIG.

  In FIG. 4, reference numeral 40 denotes form image storage necessity information, which is data stored in the storage unit 14 in advance as storage image data 42 indicating the form image data stored in the form database 3 in association with the form type 41 indicating the type of form. It is a table.

  The form type 41 is information indicating the type of form, and indicates the type of form specified from the layout of the form ruled line, that is, the recognition result of the form format.

  The storage image data 42 is information indicating a form for storing the form image data in the form database 3 from among the types of forms indicated by the form type 41. For example, form identification information such as a form number indicating the form to be stored or image data. Reading order, etc.

  For example, as shown in FIG. 4, the form image storage necessity information 40 includes information on the front face of the main form, the front face of the attached form n, and the attached form n for the form whose form type 41 is “A”. This indicates that the back form image data is stored in the form database 3 and the form image data of the front side of the main form and the attached form n is used for the form whose form type 41 is “I”. It is stored in the form database 3. Here, n indicates the number of sets with the front and back surfaces of the form as one set.

  The form image storage necessity information 40 is described as being stored in the storage unit 14 of the form reading device 1, but may be stored in the storage unit of the server 2.

  The operation of the above configuration will be described.

  The operation of each unit in each embodiment described below is controlled by a control unit such as a central processing unit (not shown) based on a program (software) stored in a storage unit such as a memory or a magnetic disk (not shown).

  First, an outline of the form image storage process performed by the form reading apparatus 1 is indicated by S in the block diagram showing the form image storage process in the embodiment of FIG. 1 and the flowchart showing the form image storage process in the embodiment of FIG. It explains according to.

  S1: The control unit 15 as the image reading unit 151 of the form reading device 1 accepts the operation of the operator and scans the image data of the front and back surfaces of all the forms 21 placed together in the form inhaling unit. Read by the unit 13.

  S2: The control unit 15 stores the read results and image data of all the read forms 21 in the storage unit 14 as scan information 141.

  The scan information 141 includes, for example, as shown in FIG. 6, the front side of the first form 21 read as “0000001”, the back side of the first form 21 as “0000001R”, and the second form 21. The front side is “0000002”, the back side of the second form 21 is “0000002R”, the front side of the third form 21 is “0000003”, and the back side of the third form 21 is “0000003R”. The image number (for example, 0000001 to 9999999) indicating the reading order so that the front side of the fourth form 21 is “0000004” and the back side of the fourth form 21 is “0000004R” and the front Form image identification information provided with information for identifying the front or back side (for example, those given "R" indicate the back side and those not provided with "R" indicate the front side) And, the to correspond to the form image identification information successful image reading results of each of the form 21 (OK) or is stored as a failure (NG). The read image data of the form 21 is stored with a file name “form image identification information.bmp”.

  Here, the failure of reading the form 21 is a case where the image data of the form 21 cannot be read due to a conveyance abnormality or a conveyance failure of the form 21 or the read image data is unclear.

  The success or failure of reading the form 21 is detected by the control unit 15 as a form reading abnormality detecting unit by examining the image data of the form 21 stored in the scan information 141 of the storage unit 14.

  FIG. 6 shows that reading of the back side of the first form 21 and the front side of the third form 21 has failed.

  S3: The control unit 15 determines whether or not there is a failure in reading the form 21. If it is determined that there is a failure, the process proceeds to S4. If it is determined that there is no failure, the process proceeds to S5.

  S4: If it is determined that the reading of the form 21 has failed, the control unit 15 displays a screen including a word prompting the re-reading of the form 21 on the display unit 11 as shown in FIG. The operator places all the forms 21 that have failed to be read on the form suction unit, and the control unit 15 as the image reading unit 151 stores the image data of all the forms 21 placed on the form suction unit. Reading is performed by the scanner unit 13. The control unit 15 stores the read image data of all the forms 21 in the scan information 141 of the storage unit 14.

  In this embodiment, the first form 21 and the third form 21 that have failed to be read are read again, and the back side of the first form 21 and the front face of the third form 21 are imaged. Data is stored in the scan information 141 of the storage unit 14 as “0000001R.bmp” and “0000003.bmp”, respectively, as shown in FIG. For the form 21 that has been successfully re-read, the image reading result is stored as success (OK) in the scan information 141 in association with the form image identification information.

  S5: When the image data of all the forms 21 is read, the form type recognition unit 152 of the control unit 15 of the form reading apparatus 1 uses the feature information of the form registered in the form layout dictionary 142 stored in the storage unit 14. The form type is recognized from the image data of each form 21 read on the basis thereof.

  The control unit 15 as the image storage unit 153 searches the form type 41 of the form image storage necessity information 40 stored in the storage unit 14 based on all recognized form types, and corresponds to the matching form type 41. The stored image data 42 is extracted, and it is determined whether or not it is necessary to store the image data of each read form 21.

  S6: If it is determined that storage of the image data of the form 21 is necessary, the process proceeds to S8, and if it is determined that storage is not necessary, the process proceeds to S7.

  S7: When it is determined that storage is not necessary, the control unit 15 deletes the image data of the form 21 from the scan information 141 of the storage unit 14.

  S8: On the other hand, if it is determined that storage is necessary, the control unit 15 stores the image data of the form 21 in the storage unit 14 as the stored image data 143 and deletes it from the scan information 141 of the storage unit 14.

  The above-described processing of S5 to S8 is performed on the image data of all the forms 21 that have been read.

  Next, the form image data storage process of the form image data filing system will be described based on an explanatory view of the form image storage process in the embodiment of FIG. 8 and a block diagram showing the form image storage process in the embodiment of FIG.

  1 and 8, the form reading device 1 receives the operation of the operator and reads the image data of the form 21. Here, the form 21 includes, for example, a main form 81 (front side) 81, a main form a (back side) 82, an attached form A-1 (front side) 83, an attached form A-1 (back side) 84, A group of a predetermined number of forms such as a main form a (front face) 85, a main form a (back face) 86, an attached form a-1 (front face) 87, and an attached form a-1 (back face) 88 Are placed together in the form suction unit of the form reading device 1, and the scanner unit 13 puts the forms 21 on the front of the form 21 in accordance with an instruction from the control unit 15 as the image reading unit 151 of the form reading device 1. It is assumed that the image data of the front and back surfaces are read and stored in the scan information 141 of the storage unit 14.

  In the present embodiment, it is assumed that reading of the back surface 82 of the first main form a and the front face 85 of the third main form A has failed due to an abnormality of the form reading apparatus 1 or the like.

  At this time, as shown in FIG. 6, the scan information 141 stored in the storage unit 14 is “OK” for the front face 81 (form image identification information: 0000001) of the first form, and the first form. The back side 82 (form image identification information: 0000001R) is “NG”, the front side 83 (form image identification information: 0000002) of the second form is “OK”, and the back side 84 (form) of the second form The image identification information: 0000002R is “OK”, the front face 85 of the third form (form image identification information: 0000003) is “NG”, and the back face 86 of the third form (form image identification information: 0000003R). ) Is “OK”, the front side 87 (form image identification information: 0000004) of the fourth form is “OK”, and the back side 88 (form image identification information: 0000004R) of the fourth form is “OK”. It becomes.

  The read form image data files are “0000001.bmp”, “0000002.bmp”, “0000002R.bmp”, “0000003R.bmp”, “0000004.bmp”, and “0000004R.bmp”, respectively.

  On the other hand, the back side 82 of the first main form A that has failed to be read and the front side 85 of the third main form A are read again by the form reading device 1, and the back side of the first main form a. As shown in FIG. 6, the image data of the front surface 85 of the 82nd and the third main form A are inserted into the scan information 141 of the storage unit 14 as “0000001R.bmp” and “0000003.bmp”, respectively. Are stored and reacquired.

  When the image data of all the forms 21 is read, the form type recognition unit 152 of the control unit 15 of the form reading apparatus 1 is based on the feature information of the form registered in the form layout dictionary 142 stored in the storage unit 14. A form type is recognized from the image data of each read form 21, and a main form is extracted and divided into a form bundle.

  In the present embodiment, the main form a (front face) 81 and the main form a (front face) 85 are recognized and divided into a form bundle 1 and a form bundle 2, and the main form a (front face) 81 is recognized. The next form is the main form a (back side) 82, and the form from the next form of the main form a (back side) 82 to the front of the main form a (front side) 85 is the attached form a of the main form a. Handling (form bundle 1), and the form following the main form i (front side) 85 is designated as the main form i (back side) 86, and the form following the form following the main form i (back side) 86 is the main form. It is assumed that it is handled as an attached form (a) (form bundle 2).

  The control unit 15 searches the form type 41 of the form image storage necessity information 40 stored in the storage unit 14 based on the recognized form type, and extracts the stored image data 42 corresponding to the matching form type 41.

  Subsequently, the control unit 15 of the form reading apparatus 1 determines whether or not it is necessary to store the image data of the form read based on the extracted storage image data 52 in the form database 3.

  For example, as shown in FIG. 4, the storage image data 42 is associated with “A” of the form type 41 in the storage image data 42, the front side of the main form, the front side of the attached form n, the back side of the attached form n, and the form type 41. The front face of the main form and the front face of the attached form n are stored in association with “a” in FIG. 5, and the control unit 15 that extracts them stores the image data of the front face 81 of the main form A, The image data of the front face 83 of the attached form A-1, the image data of the back face 84 of the attached form A-1, and the image data of the front face 85 of the main form A, the front of the attached form A-1. It is determined that the image data of the surface 87 needs to be stored.

  The control unit 15 (form image data storage means) includes image data of the front face 81 of the main form A, image data of the front face 83 of the attached form A-1, and image of the back face 84 of the attached form A-1. Data, image data of the front face 85 of the main form i, and image data of the front face 87 of the attached form i-1 are read from the scan information 141 of the storage unit 14 as storage image data 143, and the image data At the same time, the server 2 is notified that the image data is to be stored in the form database 3.

  When there is a correction in the recognized character of the form, the correction unit 154 corrects it with the character input by the input unit 12 as a character input device before storing the image data of the form.

  The server 2 receives the image data of the front face 81 of the main form A, the image data of the front face 83 of the attached form A-1, the image data of the back face 84 of the attached form A-1, and the main form A. The image data of the front face 85 and the image data of the front face 87 of the attached form a-1 are stored in the form database 3 and stored.

  Note that the image data of the back side 82 of the main form A, the back side 86 of the main form A, and the back side 88 of the attached form A-1 determined that it is not necessary to store the form image data in the form database 3 is the form database. Do not store in 3.

  As described above, when the form reading device 1 detects that the form reading has failed, the form reading apparatus 1 displays a screen prompting to read all the forms that have failed to be read again, and rereads all the forms that have failed to be read. . The image data of the form that has been read again is inserted into the scan information 141, and after the image data of all the forms has been acquired correctly, the necessity of storing the form image data is determined with reference to the image storage necessity information 40. As a result, the image data of the form that needs to be stored can be securely stored, and the image data of the form that does not need to be stored is not stored.

  In particular, even if the reading of the image data of the main form fails, only the image data of the form that needs to be stored can be securely stored.

  As described above, in this embodiment, when it is detected that the reading of the form has failed, all the forms that have failed to be read are re-read, and the image data of all the forms can be acquired correctly, and then the image By determining whether or not to save the form image data with reference to the storage necessity information, it is possible to securely store the form image data that needs to be stored and the form image data that does not need to be stored. The effect that it will not be stored is acquired.

  In the present embodiment, the form reading apparatus 1 has been described as reading the image data on the front and back surfaces of the form. However, the form reading apparatus 1 may read only the image data on the front side of the form.

  In addition to the form image filing system, the present invention collects form images with a form reading apparatus and performs data entry while referring to images obtained by an operator, or data by OCR (Optical Character Recognition). The present invention can also be applied to a data entry system that performs input.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Form reading apparatus 2 Server 3 Form database 4 Communication line 11 Display part 12 Input part 13 Scanner part 14 Storage part 15 Control part

Claims (3)

In the form image filing system for storing and storing the form image data read by the form reading device in the form storage means,
A form reading means for reading image data of a plurality of forms including a main form and an attached form;
A form reading abnormality detecting means for detecting success or failure of reading the form from the image data of the form read by the form reading means;
A form type recognition means for recognizing the form type from the image data of the main form read by the form reading means;
A storage means for preliminarily storing form image storage necessity information indicating image data of a main form and an attached form that need to be stored in association with the type of form;
When the form reading abnormality detecting means detects an abnormality in the first reading of the form , the form image data is read again by the form reading means, the image data of all the forms is read, and then the form read of the image data, the form in accordance with the form image storage necessity information extracted based on the type of a form type recognition means recognizes, store only image data in the main form and the accompanying document requiring storage in the form storage unit A form image filing system characterized by discarding image data of main forms and attached forms that do not require storage . In the form image filing system according to claim 1,
A form image filing system , wherein image data of main forms and attached forms that do not need to be stored is deleted without being stored in the form storage means . In the form image filing system according to claim 1 or claim 2,
The image data of the form read again is assigned the same image number as the image number indicating the reading order of the image data of the form that has become abnormally read, and is inserted into the image data of the form read in the first reading. As described above , the form image filing system is stored in the storage means .

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