JPH02255974A - Printing device with key word - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily confirm the key words by printing the key words stored in a key word storage means to each page of a document at the positions stored in a printing position storage means when the addition of key words is selected. CONSTITUTION:When the information on the key word adding positions, the number of characters, etc., are inputted via an input part 5, these information are stored in a printing position storing register 7. When an output instruction is received from the part 5, a command is given to a key word reading circuit 2 to read the key word to be added to a document from a key word storage part 1. This key word is stored in a key word storing register 3. When an output part 9 is ready for print, the information on the register 7 are read out via a printing position detecting circuit 8. Thus the information on the key word printing position is obtained and at the same time the key word to be printed is obtained from the register 3. These information and key word are synthesized with the data received from a control part 4 and printed out to a form. Thus a special key word output operation can be omitted.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a printing device (printer) used as an output device for electronic files and the like.

[Conventional technology]

Various printing devices (printers) such as wire dot printers, thermal printers, and laser printers that sequentially print and output document contents spanning multiple pages as output devices for various OA devices such as electronic files and personal computers.
is used.

By the way, with electronic files, etc., search keywords are selected for each stored text, but with conventional printers, it is possible to output the contents of such documents,
Outputting search keywords for the document was a separate task.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

Therefore, with conventional printers, the content of a document and the search keyword for that document are output separately, so it is very difficult to confirm what the search keyword is even by looking at the content of the printed document. It was difficult.

This invention was made to solve such problems, and when the content of a document is output by a printing device, the keyword is also printed at the same time, thereby reducing the burden on the user. With the goal.

[Means to solve the problem]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention includes a keyword storage means for storing keywords to be added to a document to be output;
an input means for instructing the position where the keyword is to be printed;
a printing position storage means for storing a printing position designated by the means; a selection means for selecting whether or not to add a keyword; and each page of a document to be output when the selection to add a keyword is made by the means. Another object of the present invention is to provide a printing device with keywords, which is provided with a control means for controlling printing of the keywords stored in the keyword storage means at the print positions stored in the print position storage means.

[Operation] When the selection means selects to add a keyword, the keyword adding printing device according to the present invention simultaneously prints the search keyword of the document at a pre-designated position on each page of the document to be output. This eliminates the need for a separate keyword output operation, and also makes it extremely easy to confirm keywords.

〔Example〕

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

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a printing apparatus showing an embodiment of the present invention.

This printing device includes a keyword storage section 1. Keyword reading circuit 2. Keyword storage register 3. Control unit 4. Input section 52 selection section 6. Print position storage register 7, print position detection circuit 8. and an output section (printing section) 9.

The keyword storage unit 1 stores all keywords registered in the database. The keyword reading circuit 2 is a circuit that reads a designated search keyword to be added to a document to be outputted from the keyword storage section 1.

The keyword storage register 3 is a register that stores the keyword read by the keyword reading circuit 2.

The input section 5 and the selection section 6 are a keyboard or a touch panel provided on the operation panel, and the input section 5 is used for inputting the position and number of characters for printing the keyword added by the operator on the paper. Section 6 is for selecting whether to add a keyword.

The print position storage register 7 is a register that, when print position information of a keyword is input from the input unit 5, is fetched and stored via the control unit 4 and the print position detection circuit 8.

The print position detection circuit 8 is a circuit that reads the print position information of the keyword from the print position storage register 7 and detects at which position on the page the keyword is to be added.

The control unit 4 is a part composed of a microcomputer that centrally controls each of these units and the output unit, and when the selection unit 6 selects not to add a keyword, it converts document data from a database (not shown) into pages. In contrast, when the selection section 6 selects to add a keyword, the output section 9 prints only the document data on paper and outputs it to the output section 9.If the selection section 6 selects to add a keyword, the input section 5 outputs the keyword. When information such as the position to add and the number of characters is input, it is stored and saved in the print position storage register 7, and when an output command is given from the input section 5, the keyword reading circuit 2 stores the information in the keyword storage section 1. A command is given to read a keyword to be added to an output document from , and the read keyword is stored and saved in the keyword storage register 3.

If the output unit 9 is capable of printing, the print position detection circuit 8 reads out the information in the print position storage register 7 to obtain information on the position where the keyword is to be printed.
A keyword to be printed is obtained from the keyword storage register 3, combined with document data sent from the control section 4, and printed on paper.

When the document to be output has multiple pages, the contents of the keyword storage register B are added to each page.

Also, when the document changes, the keyword reading circuit 2 loads new keywords to be printed from the keyword storage section 1, updates the contents of the keyword storage register 3, and updates the keywords to each page. I will add more.

FIG. 2 shows an example of a document outputted with keywords added in this manner.

In this example, of the margins formed around the document content print area 11 of the paper 10, a keyword print area 12 is placed in the upper margin.
are provided for one or several lines. Of course, the key word printing area 12 may be provided at a plurality of locations or may be provided at other margins.

FIG. 3 is a conceptual block diagram showing another embodiment of the present invention, which is a printing device combining an electronic filing device and a laser printer.

This printing device includes an input device 21 such as a keyboard, 2
σ) Disk devices 22 and 2, a control unit B24 using a micro combi coater, a print position storage unit 25, a search result table (memory) 2, and a print keyword storage unit that stores keywords for sentences. 27 and a page memory 28, and the control device 24 centrally controls these.

The disk device 22 is a disk device that stores all search keywords, and uses an optical disk, a magnetic disk, or the like as a storage medium.

The disk device 26 stores a large amount of document data (image data).
This is a disk device that stores data (data) as a database on a recording medium such as an optical disk. These disk devices 2
2 and 23 may be used as one unit.

According to this embodiment, when a search condition is given from the input device 21 and a search instruction is given, search keywords are sequentially read from the disk device 22 and only those that match the search condition are stored in the search result table 26. Accumulate.

, When a document (number) to be printed is specified from among the search results of 2, the disk device 23 storing the 1 document data is selected.
The image data of the document is expanded from the page memory 28 to the page memory 28.

At this time, the number of the specified document is in the search result table 26.
It corresponds to the pointer inside. So(),
Using this pointer, the keywords of the print document in the search result QP 26 are found, and the keywords in the printable character digit portion are held in the print keyword storage section 27.

Next, the printed keyword is converted into a dot image, transferred to a specified position in the page memory 28 (designated by the input device 21 and stored in the print position storage section 25), and then transferred to the expanded document. Combine with content image data.

The image data synthesized in this way is transferred to the control device 24.
By outputting the document to the print engine 2, the print engine 29 prints a document with keywords on paper and outputs it.

In the case of a multi-page document, the keywords can be added to all pages by repeating the process of composing the retained keywords on the page data read in the first page.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, if the keyword printing device according to the present invention is used, search keywords of the document can be simultaneously printed at pre-specified positions on each page of the document to be output [5]. Therefore, there is no need to perform a separate operation to output keywords, and furthermore, keyword confirmation becomes extremely easy.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block configuration diagram of a printing apparatus showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a document outputted with a keyword added thereto. FIG. 3 is a conceptual block diagram showing another embodiment of the invention. 1... Keyword storage section 2... Keyword reading circuit 3... Keyword storage register 4... Control section 5... Input section 6... Selection section 7... Print position storage register 8...・Print position detection circuit 9...output section 10
... Paper 11 ... Document content printing area 12
... Keyword print area 21 ... Input device 22
．． 2E5...Disk device 24...Control device 2
5...Print position storage unit 26...Search result table 27...Print keyword storage unit 28...Page memory 29...Print engine 1st i2

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. A printing device that sequentially prints and outputs document contents spanning multiple pages, comprising: keyword storage means for storing keywords to be added to the document to be output; and input means for instructing the position where the keywords are to be printed. , a printing position storage means for storing the printing position instructed by the means, a selection means for selecting whether or not to add a keyword, and an output when the selection to add the keyword is made by the means. A keyword printing device comprising: a control means for controlling printing of the keyword stored in the keyword storage means at a print position stored in the print position storage means on each page of a document. .