JPH02136955A - Paging system for registration of document - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain a paging task without counting the pages of a document nor rearranging pages before an input tasks in case the order of the document is reversed by obtaining the forward page numbers recorded on a recoding medium with use of a specific calculation formula. CONSTITUTION:A recording medium input/output part 6 reads the information showing the adverse input of a document and the information showing the number of sheets of the read document and the page input order out of an optical disk 7. These read information are stored in the forward/reverse information memory part 5a, a page number memory part 5e, and a page address memory part 5c respectively. Then these information are substituted for an equation, i.e., (page number) = (document sheet number + 1) - (page input order number). The value obtained from this equation is defined as the number of each page. Thus it is possible to perform a paging task without counting the number of document sheets nor rearranging the documents before an input task when the paging task is carried out after the documents are reversely inputted.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention assigns page numbers to a document when inputting it, stores it in a recording medium, and performs a search in the reverse order of the pages. Regarding the pagination method when inputting.

[Conventional technology]

When registering a document on a recording medium (such as an optical disc), place it in the reading section with the front side of the characters facing down. That is, the first page of the document is at the bottom, and the last page is at the top. The set documents are fed in order from the top (last page).

Conventionally, the following two methods have been used to perform pagination by inputting in reverse order from the last page to the first page of a document as in this device.

■) How to do this without rearranging the pages of a document - Set the starting page number (usually the last page number) to be attached to the first page to be input on the device. For this reason, it is necessary to count the number of documents.

・From then on, the page increase/decrease value for pagination in order (
Normally, -1) is set in the device.

- When you start inputting a document, the page increase/decrease value is added to the starting page number or previous page number to determine the number of each page in order.

2) How to rearrange the pages of a document - The first page of the document becomes the last page.

Sort the pages in order so that the last page becomes the first page.

- Set the start page number set by the device to 1. Set the page increase/decrease value to +1 and start inputting.

Regarding pagination, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 60-33624 and Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 61-70657 can be cited.

However, the above case is not mentioned.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

Conventionally, when adding pages to one document, the following method has been adopted.

1) Set the start page number to be assigned to the first page to be input in the device. (Normally 1 if inputting in forward order, last page number if inputting in reverse order) 2) Set the page increase/decrease value for pagination in subsequent classes in the device. (Usually, +1 to add in forward order, -1 to add in reverse order) 3) When you start inputting the document,
The number of each page is determined by adding the page increase/decrease value to the start page number or previous page number.

This causes the following problem when inputting documents in reverse order.

1) In order to set the starting page number, which is the last page number of the document, it is necessary to count the number of pages in the document before inputting it.

In addition, if there is a mistake in counting the number of pages, the pages will not be assigned correctly.

2) In order to input data from the first page of a document and add pages in normal order, it is necessary to rearrange the data so that the first page becomes the last page of the document and the last page becomes the beginning of the document.

The purpose of the present invention is to count the number of documents before inputting them when pagination is performed by inputting documents in reverse order.

Alternatively, it may be possible to paginate a document without rearranging it.

[Means to solve the problem]

The above object is achieved by using the following means.

1) Record the following information on the recording medium.

・Whether the documents were input in forward or reverse order ・Number of documents (value read and counted by the device) ・Information indicating the input order of each page 2) Value found by substituting the above information into the following formula Let be the page number of each page.

The page number = (Number of documents + 1) - Input order number of the page [Function] Information indicating whether the order in which the documents were input is forward or reverse, the number of input documents, (the number of documents read), By recording on the recording medium the information indicating the input order of each page, the page number in the normal order of each page recorded on the recording medium can be determined by a calculation formula.

As a result, when inputting a document in reverse order, there is no need to count the number of pages in the document or rearrange the pages before inputting, and pagination can be performed simply by setting the document in the input section.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be explained using an optical disk as an example.
This will be explained using figures.

First, the constituent elements and the functions of each component are shown below.

- Input unit 1: Set the documents to be registered and read them one page at a time in the order they were set.

Keyboard 2: Keys for issuing document registration, search, and print commands, and keys for supporting search and page numbers to be printed are arranged.

・Control unit 3: Controls the entire unit by interpreting commands from other parts and issuing commands to each part to operate its respective functions.

-Display section 4...CRT for displaying the contents of pages of registered documents, etc. -Storage section 5...Memory for storing various information.

It consists of the following memory.

- Forward/reverse information storage unit 5a: Memory for storing information indicating whether the document was input in the normal page order or in the reverse page order. It is determined by a command from the keyboard 2.

-Page storage section 5b...Memory for storing the contents of one page read from the input section 1 or the optical disk 7 -Page address storage section 5c......On the optical disk of each page written to the optical disk address at. The contents of each page can be read from the optical disc using this address. Addresses are stored in this storage unit in the order in which they are written to the optical disc.

- Input sequence number counter 5d... This is for calculating the number of documents, and increases by 1 each time one page is input.

When the input of the document is completed, the actual information is recorded on the optical disk. The initial value is Oo.Page number storage unit 5e: A memory for reading and storing the number of documents recorded on an optical disk when searching for registered documents, and used to obtain the page number of each page.

・Search page number storage section 5f...Keyboard 2
Memory/storage medium input/output unit 6 for storing specified searches and page numbers to be printed... Optical disk control device and input/output device/optical disk for writing and reading data to and from optical disks. 7... Optical disc recording medium/printing section 8... Printer/page number generation section 9 for printing the contents of the page in the page storage section 5b... From the keyboard 2 For the page with the specified search page number, an input order number indicating which page was input is obtained.

A document consisting of a plurality of sheets n is set in the input section 1.

By pressing the document reverse order registration key from the keyboard 2, a document reverse order registration command is sent to the control unit 3. The control unit 3 stores information f indicating that input is in reverse order in the forward/reverse information storage unit 5a. The input unit 1 inputs the document 1 in response to an input request from the control device 3.
The contents of the read page are stored in the page storage section 5b.

The storage medium input/output unit 6 writes the contents of the page storage unit 5b to the optical disc 7, and further writes the address γ on the optical disc 7 where the page has been written to the page address storage unit 5c.
are stored in the order of input. And input sequence number counter 5
Add 1 to d (usually the initial value is 0). This completes the processing of the current page, reads the next page from the input unit 1, and repeats the above operations. When all the pages of the document have been processed and there is no paper left in the input section 1, the control section 3 receives a signal indicating that there is no paper left in the input section 1 (reading complete), and the control section 3 enters the forward/reverse information storage section 5a. The recording medium input/output unit 6 receives the information f that the order is reversed, the number n of pages in the input sequence number counter 5d, and the 7 groups of addresses on the optical disk of each page arranged in the input order of the page address storage unit 5c. is written to the optical disk and the processing of this document is completed.

The operation of searching the document registered on the optical disc 7 in this way by page number, displaying it on the display section 4, or printing it on the printing section 8 will be described below.

Since the operation of calling up a document to be searched is not related to the present invention, it will be omitted and will be explained from a state in which one document is called up from the optical disc 13.

First, information f indicating that the document is input in reverse order, the number of pages n, and 7 groups of page addresses of the optical disk are read out from the optical disc 7 by the recording medium output unit 6, and the forward/reverse information storage unit 5a, page number storage unit 5e, It is stored in the page address storage section 5c. Next, in response to a Kugata command for the search page number t from the keyboard 2, the control section 3 stores the search page number t in the search page number storage section 5f. Since the content of the forward/reverse storage section 5a is information f indicating reverse order input, the page number generation section 9 calculates the input order number i of the search page using the following formula according to a command from the control section 3.

Input sequence number i=(number of pages n+1) - search page number t Furthermore, the i-th page address γ is taken out from the page address storage section 5c. The control section 3 instructs the recording medium 6 to read the page from the optical disc, stores it in the page storage section 5a, and displays it on the display section 4 using the page address γ. When the command from the keyboard 2 is to print, the contents of the page in the page storage section 5a are sent to the printing section and printed.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, there is no need to count the number of documents or rearrange the pages of the document, and pagination can be easily and efficiently performed simply by setting the document in the input section.

Furthermore, it is possible to prevent page numbers from being misaligned due to errors in counting the number of pages in a document.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Input part, 2... Keyboard, 3... Control part, 4... Display part, 5... Storage part, 5a... Forward/reverse information storage part. 5b... Page storage section, 5c... Page address storage section, 5d... Input sequence number counter, 5e... Page number storage section, 5f... Search page number storage section, 6.
...Recording medium input/output unit, 7...Optical disk, 8...
Printing section, 9...Page number generation section.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. When registering a document with pages attached to a recording medium, the document is input in reverse order from the last page to the first page, and the device that searches or prints the document receives information that the document was input in reverse order. , information indicating the number of documents read and the order in which each page was input is recorded on a recording medium, and based on this information, pages can be searched and printed using the page number from the beginning of the document. Pagination method when registering documents.