JPH04151760A - Document preparing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automatically convert a hand-written document to printing plate data by directly proofreading image data as necessary while successively confirming conversion flaws of image data by the screen on a display device. CONSTITUTION:An image data proofreading part 8 displays a part or the whole of standard character pattern data, which is stored in a resembling character pattern data storage part 7, in the lowest row on the screen of a display device 4 through an image control part 3 by a pattern collating part 5 correspondingly to a character to be proofread. An operator selects proper character pattern data from resembling character pattern data displayed on the screen of the display device 4 and inputs select information from a keyboard device 9 to substitute the character with selected character pattern data. Completely proofread image data is stored in a storage device as printing plate data by a printing plate data storing part 10. Thus, the hand-written document is automatically converted to printing plate data.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Industrial application field] The present invention relates to a document creation device.

[Prior Art] Currently, many typewriters and word processors are in circulation, and it is often the case that formal documents and submitted documents must be output by a typewriter, word processor, or the like in order to be accepted.

For this reason, conventionally, a professional puncher, operator, or the document creator himself/herself operates a typewriter or word processor based on the handwritten document to convert it into original data for printing. I was dealing with it.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] In the conventional method described above, when a large number of documents need to be converted, for example in the case of a publishing company or a newspaper company, it is difficult to convert a large number of people and spend a lot of time. It has become.

An object of the present invention is to solve the problem of converting a handwritten document into original data for printing, which has conventionally been done manually, and to provide a document creation device that automatically converts a handwritten document to original data for printing. It's about doing.

[Means for Solving the Problems] A document creation device of the present invention includes: an image data input unit that reads and inputs handwritten documents; an image data storage unit that stores image data input by the image data input unit; a screen control unit that controls the display of image data stored in the image data storage unit; a display device that displays image data at a predetermined position according to display control information from the screen control unit; and a display device that displays standard character pattern data in advance. The image data displayed on the screen of the display device is compared with the standard character pattern data, and the identified image data is converted into a standard character pattern. a pattern matching unit that displays on the display device via a screen control unit; a similar character pattern data storage unit that stores similar pattern data that could not be identified by the pattern matching unit;
an image data calibration section that calibrates image data displayed on the screen of the display device; a keyboard device through which an operator inputs calibration information into the image data calibration section; and image data calibrated by the image data calibration section. and a printing original plate data storage unit that stores the printing original plate data as printing original plate data.

[Example code] Next, the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, an image data input section 1 such as an optical reading device,
An image data storage section 2, a screen control section 3 having a function of display control of image data, a display device 4, a pattern matching section 5 having a function of matching input image data and character pattern data, and a standard character It includes a pattern data storage section 6, a similar character pattern data storage section 7, an image data proofing section 8 having an image data proofing function, a keyboard device 9, and a printing original data storage section 10.

The image data of the handwritten document read by the image data input section 1 is sent to the image data storage section 2 together with the paper size of the document.

The image data storage section 2 secures an area based on the paper size of the sent document and stores the image data in units of pages, for example.

The screen control section 3 develops the image data stored in the image data storage section 2, for example, page by page, and displays the image data on the screen of the display device 4.

Next, the image data matching operation will be explained.

The image data displayed on the screen of the display device 4 is extracted character by character as character data by the pattern matching section 5, and is compared with character pattern data stored in the standard character pattern data storage section 6.

As a result of the matching, the image data extracted as character data of one character is replaced by the pattern matching unit 5 using the character pattern data determined to be similar, and is sent to the display device 4 via the screen control unit 3. displayed on the screen.

However, if there is a plurality of similar character pattern data at this time, the character pattern data determined to be the most similar is replaced, and the other similar character pattern data are stored in the similar character pattern data storage section 7. Store everything in .

Next, the image data calibration operation will be explained.

The image data replaced by the pattern matching unit 5 and displayed on the display device 4 is corrected for typos, omissions, layout, etc. by the image data proofing unit 8 by inputting proofreading information by the operator using the keyboard device 9.

At this time, the image data proofing section 8 uses another standard character pattern data stored in the similar character pattern data storage section 7 by the pattern matching section 5 via the screen control section 3, corresponding to the character to be proofread. Display device 4
For example, display part or all of it on the bottom line of the screen.

The operator selects appropriate character pattern data from among the similar character pattern data displayed on the screen of the display device 4 and inputs selection information from the keyboard device 9 to replace the character pattern data with the selected character pattern data.

The image data for which the proofreading has been completed is stored as printing original data in the storage device by the printing original data storage section 10 in the same manner as the image data storage section 2, upon input of a completion instruction from the keyboard device 9 by the operator.

The printing original data stored in the printing original data storage section 10 can be printed using a word processor or the like as needed.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, the present invention allows the conversion results of image data to be checked one by one on the screen of a display device and direct calibration can be performed as needed, thereby eliminating the work that was previously done entirely manually. This has the effect of being able to automate and save labor.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Image data input part, 2... Image data storage part, 3... Screen control part, 4... Display device, 5... Pattern matching part, 6... Standard character pattern data storage Part, 7... Similar character pattern data storage unit, 8... Image data proofing unit, 9... Keyboard device, O... Original plate data storage unit for printing.

Claims (1)

[Claims] an image data input unit for reading and inputting handwritten documents; an image data storage unit for storing image data input by the image data input unit; and a screen control for displaying and controlling the image data stored in the image data storage unit. a display device that displays image data at a predetermined position according to display control information from the screen control portion; a standard character pattern data storage portion that stores standard character pattern data in advance; a pattern matching section that compares the image data displayed on the screen with the standard character pattern data and converts the identified image data into a standard character pattern and displays it on the display device via the screen control section; a similar character pattern data storage section that stores similar pattern data that could not be identified by the pattern matching section; an image data proofing section that proofreads the image data displayed on the screen of the display device; and the image data proofing section. A document creation device comprising: a keyboard device through which an operator inputs proofreading information; and a printing original data storage unit storing image data proofread by the image data proofing unit as printing original data.