JPH04326189A - Consistency retrieving method for definition information - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the quality of the inputting and outputting processing of a document by retrieving the consistency of an inputting device definition with a multiscreen definition before the start of the inputting and outputting processing. CONSTITUTION:A consistency retrieval processing part 4 is activated by a command from a display device 18. This consistency retrieval processing part 4 retrieves document screen combining information 12, and the definition name of a pair of registered definitions is decided as an object to be retrieved. Then, an inputting device definition 11 and a multiscreen definition 22 are read by using the definition name as a key. That is, the consistency of the contents of the inputting device information definition 11 and the multiscreen definition 22 holding control information at the time of displaying prescribed data from an inputting device to a reading display device 18, is retrieved by the consistency retrieval processing part 4 before the start of the inputting and outputting processing of the data. Thus, the quality of the inputting and outputting processing operated by a processor 19 can be improved.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for verifying the consistency of definition information in two types of input/output terminal devices.

[0002] A processing device reads printed and handwritten characters written on a form using an optical character reader (OCR) and displays the data on the form on a display device. When reading and displaying this data on a display, the reading area on the form, the display area on the display, the type of input/output data (kana characters, numbers, image data, etc.), and the number of digits of letters and numbers are determined in advance as control information. This control information is set individually for each terminal device, and data input/output processing is performed using this control information.

0003

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 3 shows a system configuration diagram of a device that inputs and outputs such data. The processing device 19 is composed of an input/output processing section 16 and form screen link information 12, and a file device 51 is an input control device used when the input/output processing section 16 reads OCR form data from the optical character reading device 17. Information is held as an input device definition body 11, and output control information necessary for displaying the results of data processing on the display device 18 is held as a multi-screen definition body 22. The form screen connection information 12 holds correspondence information of these definitions used for OCR input and display on a display device.

[0004] The input/output processing section 16 is an optical character reading device 1.
7 reads the printed or handwritten characters written on the OCR form (paper) or the image on the form based on the input control information held by the input device definition body 11, and this read data is held by the multi-screen definition body 22. The output control information is displayed on the display device 18 based on the output control information. Here, the display device 18 has a function of displaying data as well as a function of inputting commands and data to the processing device 19.

FIG. 4 shows an example of the structure of data entered in an OCR form and data displayed on a display screen. The data to be written in the OCR form is defined in writing areas A1 to A3 as "name", "date", and "seal", respectively, and the contents of the data to be written are written in kana characters (7 characters) for each item. , numbers (6 digits), and image data (upper left end point, lower right end point) (Figure 4
(a)). The part where the character "Seal" is surrounded by a broken line is a dropout color, and only the seal "Shimada" is read from the OCR form.

[0006] Display items B1 to B3 on the display screen displayed on the display device 18 are defined as "name,""date," and "seal," respectively, by coordinate position, length, etc. (Fig. 4 (b)).

An explanatory diagram of this definition body is shown in FIG. Figure 5 (
a) shows the configuration of the input device definition (OCR definition), which includes reading items (A1 "Name", A2 "Year, month, date", It consists of the item type of data to be read (kana characters, numbers, image data), the number of digits at that time, and the coordinates for each item (A3 "Seal").

FIG. 5(b) shows the structure of a multi-screen definition body, in which display items (B1 "Name", B2 "Year, Month, and Date") are displayed when the input/output processing unit 16 displays them on the display device 18.
, B3 "Seal"), the type of character or data to be displayed (alphanumeric characters and kana (ANK), numbers, image data), data length, and coordinates.

[0009] Each definition program is created in a number corresponding to the type of OCR form to be inputted and the type of display screen to be displayed, and a definition program name is assigned to each definition program. That is, the input device definition body 11 has the definition body name (form 01, form 0
1, . . . , form n), each item information (item type, number of digits, item type, coordinates) is held. Similarly, the multi-screen definition body 22 has definition body names (multi-screen 01,
Each item information (item type, number of digits, item type, coordinates) is held corresponding to multi-screen 02, . . . , multi-screen n).

Form screen link information shown in FIG. 6 connects these two definition bodies. The definition name of the predetermined input device definition 11 used for input processing and the definition name of the multi-screen definition 22 correspond to each other, and mutual correspondence information between the definitions is stored in the form screen connection information 12.

FIG. 7 shows a conventional processing procedure using the above-mentioned OCR form definition and image display definition. In processing step 90, a command for specifying the type of OCR form to be read is input from the display device 18. In a processing step 91, a definition name required for the form input process is searched from the form screen connection information 12.

In processing step 92, the form screen connection information 12 is searched using the definition name as a key, and input device definition name 1 is searched.
Read 1. At this time, if the input device definition 11 with the predetermined definition name does not exist, form input from the optical character reading device 17 becomes impossible. If the input device definition 11 exists, the input processing unit 16 uses the control information (number of digits of characters to be read specified for each item, item type, position information) held by the input device definition 11 in processing step 93. Based on this, the optical character reading device 17 reads the form.

[0013] In this reading, if the control information is the predetermined control information, the data of the form is input normally; however, if the control information is different from the predetermined number of digits or the predetermined item type (control If the information is inconsistent), an abnormality will occur in subsequent processing.

When the OCR form input processing is completed and the data is to be displayed on the display device 13, the input processing unit 16 reads the multi-screen definition 22 from the form screen concatenation information 12 using the definition name as a key in processing step 94. put out. At this time, if the multi-screen definition object 22 with the predetermined definition object name does not exist, display on the display device 18 becomes impossible. If the multi-screen definition 22 exists, the input processing unit 16 displays the data on the display device 18 based on the control information of the multi-screen definition 22 in processing step 95 . At this time, if the control information differs from the predetermined number of digits or the predetermined item type, the data will not be displayed normally.

[0015]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] As described above, when input device definition 11 and multi-screen definition 22 do not exist in file device 51 during input/output processing of forms, or when control information held by the definition It has been pointed out that if the number of digits differs from the predetermined number of digits or the predetermined item type, there is a problem that an abnormality occurs in input/output processing or processing becomes impossible.

An object of the present invention is to improve the quality of data processing of forms by verifying the consistency of control information regarding definition bodies held by the file device 51 before starting input/output processing. .

[0017]

[Means for Solving the Problems] FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the principle of the present invention. This is a consistency verification method of definition information that checks the form format for the input form type and the output display format corresponding to the form type, in which the form type is input in step S1, and the form corresponding to the form type is specified in step S2. The definition program concatenation information in which the output display format is registered is specified, and the form format and output display format specified by the definition program concatenation information identified in step S3 are individually read out to confirm the registered data items, and the step After confirming in S4 that the confirmed data item has been registered in the specified definition concatenation information as an item corresponding to the form format and output display format, the input data reading process is started in step S5. do.

[0018]

[Operation] The contents of the input device definition body 11 and the multi-screen definition body 22, which hold control information when reading predetermined data from an input device and displaying the predetermined data on a display device, are
The quality of input/output processing can be improved by the consistency verification processing unit 4 verifying the consistency of control information before starting data input/output processing.

[0019]

[Embodiment] FIG. 2 shows the verification processing procedure of the embodiment. In processing step 80, the consistency verification processing unit 4 is activated by a command from the display device 18. Consistency verification processing unit 4
In processing step 81, form screen connection information 1 shown in FIG.
2 is searched, and the definition name of the registered pair of definitions (for example, form 01, multi-screen 01) is determined as the verification target. In processing step 82, the input device definition 11 is read using the definition name (form 01) as a key.

If the definition entity whose definition entity name is form 01 does not exist, an error display of the definition entity name (form entry not possible) is displayed on the display device 18. If the definition of form 01 exists, then in step 83 the consistency verification processing unit 4 reads out the multi-screen definition 22 using the definition object name (multi-screen 01) as a key. If the definition entity whose definition entity name is multiscreen 01 does not exist, the definition entity name (which cannot be displayed on the screen) is displayed on the display device 18.
Displays an error message.

[0021] If the definition of multi-screen 01 exists, the consistency verification processing unit 4 checks form 01 and multi-screen 0 in processing step 84.
Definition information of 1 is divided into individual items (name, date, seal)
, it is checked whether the item types (kana characters/ANK, numbers, image data) both have predetermined correspondence information.

As a result of the check, if there is a missing item or a mismatch in the contents of the definition program information, the consistency verification processing section 4 displays a display device 1 indicating the definition program abnormality in processing step 85.
Display on 8. In processing step 86, it is determined whether or not the consistency verification of all the definition bodies has been completed, and if there is any unverified definition body, the process returns to processing step 81.

[0023]

Effects of the Invention By verifying in advance the consistency of the control information regarding the definition programs held by the file device 51, it is possible to improve the quality of the input/output processing performed by the processing device 19.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

[Figure 1] Principle diagram of the present invention

[Figure 2] Verification processing procedure of the example

[Figure 3] System configuration diagram

[Figure 4] Ledger and display screen

[Figure 5] Explanatory diagram of definition field

[Figure 6] Explanation diagram of form screen connection information

[Figure 7] Conventional processing procedure

[Explanation of symbols]

11 is an input device definition body; 12 is form screen connection information; 16 is an input/output processing unit; 17 is an optical character reading device; 18 is a display device; 19 is a processing device; 22 is a multiscreen definition field, 4 is a consistency verification processing unit; 51 indicates a file device; 80 to 86 and S1 to S5 represent processing steps.

Claims (1)

[Claims] [Claim 1] A consistency verification method for definition information that verifies a form format for an input form type and an output display format corresponding to the form type, wherein the form type is input (S
1) Identify the definition entity concatenation information in which the output display format is registered for the corresponding form type (S2), and individually read out the form format and output display format specified by the specified definition entity concatenation information and register them respectively. Check the data items (
S3) After confirming that the confirmed data item has been registered in the specified definition link information as an item corresponding to the form format and output display format, (S3)
4) A method for verifying consistency of definition information, comprising: starting input data reading processing (S5).