JPH0566904A - Information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To accurately print the characters on a form paper by showing the correct format information on a display and at the same time correcting the printing position errors on the display. CONSTITUTION:A specific position is previously measured on a form paper to be read and this paper is read by an image input device. Then the specific position is shown on a screen and a cursor is moved to the position. At the same time, the position of the cursor on the paper is shown on a display. If this cursor position is different from the preceding position measurement value, the former is replaced with the latter by a certain means. This means corrects the form format. Then the form paper is set at a prescribed position and printed by a printer. The errors between the positions of the printed characters and the character string input position on the form sheet are measured and these errors are shown in the numerical value by a certain means. Another means prints the character strings in consideration of the shown errors. Then the print positions are corrected by these means.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

[Industrial field of use] An information processing apparatus intended to create a standard format document such as a quotation by printing characters on form paper. Especially suitable for Japanese word processors.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art The prior art is based on the patent application publication number Sho 63-17.
When creating a quotation by printing characters on the form paper with a Japanese word processor like the document processor of No. 4162, input the form paper image to print the characters accurately at the printing position of the form paper. By reading with the device and displaying the image data on the display, the characters are input while visually confirming the printing position.

According to this method, complex format information of form paper can be defined by a simple operation such as reading with an image input device, and the format information definition has versatility. However, since the conventional method expresses the form information of the form paper as image data, when setting the form paper on the reading surface of the image input device, if the paper is not set accurately at the specified position, it will be read. The image data is displayed on the display as the format information of the deviation. In other words, the correct format information will not be displayed on the display.

For example, as shown in FIG. 8, when the form paper is vertically shifted by n dots and m dots on the reading surface of the image input device, the read image data is also vertically shifted by n dots and m dots. The content is displayed. Therefore, the format information indicated by the image data is also shifted vertically by n dots and horizontally by m dots.

Further, in general, the image input device has a reading surface set at a position lower than the main body as shown in FIG.
Therefore, the user sets the paper by using the unevenness, but the shaded area in FIG. 9 is often unreadable due to the hardware limitation of the image input device. Therefore, the format information is misaligned as in the previous example. Is displayed on the display. Therefore, even if you enter characters while confirming the format information of the form on the screen, the format information is misaligned,
When printing, the characters will stick out from the print position on the form paper. Conventionally, in such a case, the print position is adjusted by finely adjusting the paper feed position and the paper setting position of the printing apparatus.

Further, in the conventional printing apparatus, since the setting position of the paper can be changed by a human operation, the format information defined on the document is often not accurately reflected on the printed matter. For example, if you print a document with a right margin of 10 mm, the right margin will be 1 depending on the position of the paper loaded in the printing device.
It is often printed with a size other than 0 mm. For this reason, even if accurate format information is defined on the display and characters are input according to the definition, the printing position may shift in the printing device. Therefore, also in such a case, the printing position is adjusted while finely adjusting the paper feeding and the paper setting position of the printing apparatus, as in the previous case.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention corrects the form information of a form sheet read by an image input device such as an image input device to a correct position on the display and displays the correct form information on the display. Another object of the present invention is to accurately print characters on the form paper by correcting the deviation of the printing position caused by the paper setting position of the printing device on the display.

[0008]

In order to display the format information of the form read by the image input device as correct format information on the display, the following correction means is used.

A specific position on the form paper to be read is measured (measurement point) in advance, the same form paper is read by the image input device, the previous measurement point is displayed on the screen, and the cursor is placed there. When the cursor is moved, the position of the cursor on the paper (cursor position) is displayed on the display, and if the cursor position and the previous measurement value are different, a means for changing the cursor position to the previous measurement value is used. Correct the form. In order to accurately print the characters on the form paper with the printing device, the following correction means is used. Set the form paper at a predetermined position with the printing device, print, measure the deviation between the printed character position and the character string input position on the form paper, and indicate the deviation numerically on the display. The printing position is corrected by using the means for printing the character string in consideration of the designated shift amount.

[0010]

By using the correcting means for displaying the format information of the form read by the image input device on the display as the correct format information, the strict paper setting operation on the reading surface of the image input device and the peculiar to the image input device are performed. The form format information can be defined without performing the paper setting operation in consideration of the unreadable portion (buffer portion).

By using the correction means for accurately printing the characters on the form paper in the printing device, it is not necessary to adjust the printing position while fine-adjusting the paper feeding or paper setting position of the printing device.

[0012]

EXAMPLES Examples of the present invention will be shown below.

FIG. 3 shows the equipment configuration of the embodiment. The device configuration of the embodiment is an image input device as an image input device (31) for reading form paper, a printer (32) for printing on form paper, and a display (3).
3) and keyboard (35) and auxiliary storage device (34)
It is composed of a Japanese word processor (hereinafter referred to as a word processor) (36) equipped with, and an image input device and a printer are connected to the word processor by a cable and used as peripheral devices of the word processor.

An outline of correction means (hereinafter referred to as input correction means) for displaying the format information of the form read by the image input device as correct format information on the display is shown in the operation specification diagram of FIG. 1 and the operation screen of FIG. This will be described with reference to the figure. The input correction means is configured by combining five operations. In the first operation, the user measures an arbitrary point (referred to as a measurement point) on the form document sheet using a ruler and stores the value as a measurement value (1-1). Next, a new fixed form is created in the word processor, and the paper size and paper orientation of the created document are specified (1-2). The operation at that time is to create a new standard form by selecting "2" from the numerical keys on the keyboard on the (2-1) screen of Fig. 2, and on the (2-2) screen, select "1" for paper size and paper direction. The paper format of the document created by selecting "1" is A4
It becomes vertically long. After the above operation is completed, the form original paper is read from the image input device according to the paper size and the paper direction designated by the above operation, and the form is displayed on the display (1-3). The displayed form is displayed by aligning the upper left corner of the read form (image data) (which is the base point of the form) with the upper left corner of the paper (which is the origin of the paper). The method of this display is that the upper and left parts of the read form document paper (not the same as the original setting method on the image input device in the case of landscape format are different) are accurately displayed on the reading surface of the image input device. If it is set to, the format information of the form is displayed on the display without error. However, in actual operation, the request is almost impossible. The relationship between the form sheet, the read form format, and the document sheet format will be described in (1-6). The user measures the measurement point on the form sheet in advance (the measurement point is (10 mm, 10 mm) in this figure). This form sheet is read by the image input device. This is the form format (image data). The form may be different in size from the form paper depending on the position of the form paper set on the reading surface of the image reading device. (In the case of this figure, the size is 1 mm shorter in the vertical direction.) The above base point of the form format is displayed on the display in line with the origin of the paper format. At this time, the measurement point on the display is (10 mm, 9 mm). The so-called misalignment of the measurement points represents the misalignment between the form format and the form paper.

Therefore, the following two operations are used to shift the base point position of the form format (image data) from the origin of the paper so that the format information of the form is displayed on the display as correct format information.

The measurement point measured in (1-1) is displayed on the display, the cursor is moved to the position of the point, and the position of the cursor on the paper is also displayed on the screen (1- 4). At this time, if the previous measurement value and the cursor position are different, the cursor position is changed to the previous measurement value (1-5). On the screen at this time, as in (2-3), a part for confirming the position of the cursor and a part for instructing the presence / absence of a position change are displayed at the bottom of the screen. The cursor is moved by pressing the cursor key on the keyboard, and the cursor position displays the distance from the paper origin in mm value. (Horizontal 10 in the figure
mm, vertical 9 mm) In addition, when changing the cursor position, use the numeric key to enter "0". If not, use the numeric key to enter "1".
Is specified. When the change is designated, the screen of (2-4) is displayed, and the numerical value to be changed is input in the cursor change instruction section at the bottom of the screen. (The figure shows that the position of 10 mm in width and 9 mm in length is changed to 10 mm in width and 10 mm in height.) As a result, the display position of the form format (image data) on the paper is changed. (In the case of the figure, the base point position of the form format is shifted vertically downward by 1 mm from the origin.) The above is the outline of the correction means (hereinafter referred to as the input correction means).

Next, the data structure and software structure used in this means will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5. The data structure is roughly composed of two parts, document data and image data. The document data part includes an image information part that represents the linkage and base position of the format information and the image data that represents the paper size and paper orientation of the document. Consists of. The document data section naturally includes information necessary for expressing a general document such as character strings and pages. On the other hand, the image data section is composed of size, resolution and pixel information for expressing an image.

The correction means is constituted by displaying and editing the above two data by the software portion shown below.

This means includes a fixed form creating unit for creating a form document, a document / image data managing unit for managing registration and deletion of document data and image data, and the like.
A character string creating unit that creates / edits a character string in a fixed form document, an image input device management unit that controls input / output of the image input device, a document data display unit that displays document data on the screen, and image data on the screen. It is composed of an image data display unit for displaying and an image data position correction unit for correcting the base point position of the image data.

The details of each part described above will be described with reference to flow charts. First, the fixed form creating unit will be described with reference to FIG.

The fixed form creating section displays the work menu shown in (2-1) (6-1), waits for input from the numeric keys (6-2), and inputs "2" from the numeric keys. And the format setting screen of (2-2) is displayed. Here, the user inputs the paper size and paper orientation of the format information, notifies the document / image data management unit of the information, and the document / image management unit The information of is registered in the document data (6-3). After that, the image data position correction unit is activated to correct the image data (6-4). After the correction of the image data,
Input a character string while displaying the same image data (form format).

Next, the image data position correction unit will be described with reference to FIG.

The image data position correction unit uses the document display data display unit to display a character string on the screen (7-1) and the image display data display unit to display an image (7-2). The image is displayed with the paper origin position as the image starting point. The character string is displayed in the same format as the print result. Since this method has already been performed in a general word processor, detailed description will be omitted. The cursor is displayed on the screen on which the characters and images are displayed as described above (7-3). At this time, the cursor is set with the paper origin as the origin of the cursor position.
At the same time, a message for selecting image correction as shown in (2-2) is displayed, and key input is waited (7-4).

When the cursor key is input, the cursor position is changed (7-5), and the key input is waited again (7-4). When the numeric key “0” is designated, the correction designation screen as shown in Fig. 2-4 is displayed (7-
6) Here, after inputting the correction value with the numerical keys (7-7),
The base point position of the image data is changed using the document image data management unit (7-8). When "1" of the numerical key is designated, the processing of the image data position correction unit is ended.

As a result, the user can set the form paper in conformity with the unevenness of the reading surface of the image input apparatus and correct the form format deviation by the above means, so that the reading surface of the image input apparatus can be corrected. The correct format information can be displayed on the display without performing a strict paper setting operation or a paper setting operation in consideration of an unreadable portion (buffer portion) peculiar to the image input device.

Next, a means for measuring the deviation between the printed character position and the character string input position on the form paper, and means for instructing the deviation numerically, and printing the character string in consideration of the instructed deviation. Regarding the means (the above will be collectively referred to as a print correction means), the operation specifications will be described with reference to FIG. 10 and the screen specifications with reference to FIG.

First, after inputting a character string as in the above-described embodiment, the form paper is set at a preset paper setting position, and printing is performed using the printer (10-1). At this time, if there is a deviation between the character string printing position on the form paper and the printed character string, the deviation is measured (10-2), and the print correction key on the keyboard is pressed to instruct the print correction means. (10-3). The shift between the character string printing position on the form paper and the printed character string is shown in (11-1), and the screen specifications of the print correction means are shown in (11).
-2)

On the above print correction screen, the deviation measured previously is input (10-4), and the position of the format information (image data) and the character string data is changed using the document / image data management unit. It is printed again on the form paper (10-5).
This makes it possible to adjust the print position while fine-adjusting the paper feed and paper setting position of the printer.
As in (11-3), it is possible to accurately print characters on the form paper.

[0029]

By using the correcting means for displaying the format information of the form read by the image input apparatus on the display as the correct format information, the strict sheet setting operation on the reading surface of the image input apparatus and the image input apparatus are performed. Form format information can be defined without performing a paper setting operation that takes into consideration the unique unreadable part (buffer part). By using the correction means for accurately printing the characters on the form paper in the printing device, the operation of aligning the printing position while finely adjusting the paper feeding position and the paper setting position of the printing device becomes unnecessary.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of operation specifications of a correction unit 1.

FIG. 2 is a screen specification diagram of a correction unit 1.

FIG. 3 is a device configuration diagram.

FIG. 4 is a data structure diagram.

FIG. 5 is a software configuration diagram of a correction unit 1.

FIG. 6 is a process flow diagram of a fixed form creating unit.

FIG. 7 is a processing flowchart of an image data position correction unit.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an image reading apparatus.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an image reading device.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram of operation specifications.

FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram of screen specifications.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A display for displaying images and characters,
A printing device for printing characters and the like, an image input device for reading a paper such as a quotation as image data, a keyboard for instructing a character input and editing function, a storage device for storing programs, image data and character string data, and the above device. It has a control processing device to control and reads a paper (hereinafter referred to as form paper) such as a quotation sheet where the printing position is decided in advance by the image input device, and displays the form paper as image data on the display, When displaying the format information such as the input position of the character string and the paper size of the form paper,
Using the means for measuring the displacement between the format information and the position on the form paper on the display, the means for inputting the numerical value measured by the means, and the means for correcting the format information from the input numerical value, An information processing device characterized by displaying accurate form information of a form sheet on a display. 2. A display for displaying images and characters,
A printing device for printing characters, an image input device for reading a paper such as a quotation as image data, a keyboard for instructing a character input and editing function, a storage device for storing programs, image data and character string data, the above device It has a control processing device to control and reads the form paper for which the printing position such as a quotation is decided in advance with the image input device, and displays the form paper as image data on the display to input the character string and the paper. Display format information such as size, enter characters while checking the character string input position with the format information (image data) displayed on the display,
In the information processing device that prints only the characters input on the same form paper with the printing device after storing the character data input with the format information (image data) of the same form paper on the storage device, When the printing position and the characters printed by the printing device do not match, the format information (image data) related to the form stored in the storage device and the input character string data are used by using the means for inputting the deviation to the control processing device. An information processing apparatus, which corrects the above-mentioned deviation without changing the relative relationship between the characters and prints the characters input at the printing position on the form paper.