JPH08241303A - Document processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To easily obtain format data on a document to be referred to and easily set the format of a new document by recognizing a character part of a read document image, deciding a blank part, and setting obtained format information as format data. CONSTITUTION: The document file to be processed is read in a memory PMEM2. When format alteration is selected in a menu, a format information alteration screen is displayed. Respective items are set to values read out of the format information of the read-in document file. When a column number and column spacing read is clicked, a document begins to be read in by a scanner 15, the number of groups of character parts of the read document is set as the number of columns, and the sizes of the blanks between the groups of the character parts are set as column spacing. Then the format information is set according to the set item values and a document is displayed according to the format.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document processing device for typesetting and editing documents, for example.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a document processing apparatus for performing high-level document typesetting / editing has information about columns, columns, etc. at the time of creating document data, and sets output formats collectively to output documents. There was something that could manage the organization of.

[0003]

However, in the conventional example as described above, when a document is created in the same format as the document existing in the printed state, the number of columns of the existing document is changed. There was a drawback that it was necessary to count and measure the space between columns to newly set a format, and to create a document while comparing the referred document with the completed document.

The present invention has been made in view of the above situation, and provides a means for relatively easily obtaining data regarding the format of a document to be referenced and easily setting the format of a new document. It is an object.

[0005]

Therefore, according to the present invention, a reading means for reading a printed image in a document processing apparatus for inputting document information to create a document,
Recognition means for recognizing the character portion of the document image read by the reading means, discrimination means for further discriminating a blank portion in the character portion read by the reading means, and acquisition by each of these acquisition means It is intended to achieve the above-mentioned object by providing the setting means for setting the above-mentioned format information as format data.

[0006]

With the above-described device configuration of the present invention, it is possible to easily obtain data relating to a document format to be referred to and set it as a new document format.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below in detail based on a plurality of embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings: (Embodiment 1) FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a main configuration of a document processing apparatus according to the present embodiment. . In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a CPU for controlling this apparatus by executing a program on a memory PMEM2 described later. 2 is a memory (PMEM) for storing the above program, 3
Is a communication I / F that enables transmission / reception means such as RS232
(Interface) is shown.

Reference numeral 4 is a keyboard, 5 is a pointing device, 6 is a keyboard 4 and a pointing device 5.
Is a keyboard I / F (keyboard interface) for connecting and to the device. Reference numeral 7 denotes a system bus for transmitting address signals, data signals and control signals inside the device. 8 is a CRT used for image display, 9
Is a VRAM (video RAM) for expanding image data in order to display an image on the CRT 8.

Reference numeral 10 is a floppy disk (FD) drive, 11 is a hard disk (HD) drive, and 1
Reference numeral 2 denotes a disk I / F (disk interface) capable of connecting the floppy disk drive 10 and the hard disk drive 11 to the system bus 7. Thirteen
Is an image memory (IMEM) for storing image data to be output to the printer 14, and 14 is a printer used for image output. Reference numeral 15 is a scanner used for reading an image, and 16 is a character recognition device for recognizing characters from the read image.

When a document is processed by the apparatus having the above-mentioned structure, the document processing program and the document file to be processed or a part of the document file are read into the memory PMEM2. The read document file can be roughly classified into a document header 61, document data 62, and a format information section 63, as shown in an example of the file format in FIG.

The document header 61 contains head position data for accessing the document data 62 and the format information section 63. The document data 62 is the document itself, and the format information section 63 is for display / print output. Stores data for setting the format. These data are not always in the memory, and if necessary,
Floppy disk 10 and hard disk 11 in
Sometimes read from.

In FIG. 6, reference numeral 64 is the head position of the format information section 63, 65 is the text information, 66 is the large headline information, and 67 is the small set information.

Next, the overall flow of the processing of this embodiment will be described. FIG. 2 is a flow chart for explaining the format information change processing operation sequence of the CPU 1, and FIG.
FIG. 4 is a display example of a document selection menu screen.

First, the process is started from the state where only the system menu 31 portion of FIG. 3 is displayed. In step S1 in FIG. 2, a file to be processed is specified. The document to be processed may be a newly created document or a created document, but here it is assumed that a file already created on the floppy disk (FD) is targeted.

The operator selects the F containing the document file.
D is set in the FD drive 10 in FIG. 1, and file reading on the FD is selected from the system menu 31 in FIG. As a result, the file stored in the FD that is the read target is read. In this embodiment, the file in the FD is only the existing document 32.
By designating this document 32 using the pointing device 5 in FIG. 1, the designation of the document in step S1 is completed, and the designated document is the floppy disk 1
It is read from 0 to the memory PMEM2 (FIG. 1).

Next, in step S2 of FIG. 2, the format of the document read in step S1 is changed. When the format change is selected from the menu after reading the document, the format information change screen is displayed as in the display example shown in FIG. 4, and each parameter can be changed. Each item is a value read from the format information 63 in FIG. Here, items are selected from the menu 41 and set.

Next, in step S3 of FIG. 2, when the column number / column reading 42 in FIG. 4 is clicked,
The field is inverted to indicate that the document has been selected, the document is started to be read by the scanner device, and the number of groups (groups) of character parts of the read document is set as the number of columns.
The size of the space between the chunks of characters is set as the gap. A flowchart of the operation sequence of the information setting process between the number of stages and the stage will be described with reference to FIG.

First, in step S10, the memory P of FIG.
One line of data is read from the reference document information stored in MEM2. Next, vocabulary analysis of the read data is performed to determine whether it is vertical writing mode or horizontal writing mode (step S11).
If it is vertical writing, the process proceeds to step S14 to check whether it is a blank line, and if it is a blank line, increment the column counter (step S15). On the other hand, if it is not a blank line and the full-text check is not completed in step S16, the process is repeated from step S10.

At step S11, in the case of horizontal writing mode,
Check whether the character is a blank character (step S
12) If there is no blank character and the full-text check is not completed, the process is repeated from step S10. On the other hand, if a blank character is found in step S12, the (n-row) stage number counter for that line is incremented (step S13). If the full-text check is not completed in step S16, the process is repeated from step S10.

When the full-text check is completed in step S16, in the case of horizontal composition, the (N) most frequent value of each counter is set to the number of columns (step S17), and vertical composition and horizontal composition are performed in step S18. When the number of columns is 1, the value is set to the number of columns (step S19), and when the number of columns is set, paper search is performed to obtain a blank distance between character portions (step S20). The blank distance is set between the steps (step S21), and this subroutine ends.

On the other hand, returning to the flow chart of the format information change processing operation sequence of FIG. 2, if it is determined in step S3 that the reading is not the number of stages / interstage reading,
In step S6, the format information 63 of FIG. 6 is set according to the set item / value. Then, if all the format changes are completed in step S7, the document is displayed according to the format (step S8), and if there is no other document to be created (step S9), the process is completed, and if there is another document to be created, The sequence is repeated by returning to step S1.

According to the procedure described above, it is possible to easily create a new document in accordance with the format of a document already printed.

(Embodiment 2) In Embodiment 1 described above,
The number of columns and the gap between the main text are determined by examining the character parts of the reference document. However, if there is a part surrounded by a frame in the read document, the number of character parts in the frame and the space between them. The blank size and the size of
The number of columns of the small set format indicated by 67 in the format information section 63 of
It can also be set as a step.

As described above, in the case of outputting a document along with an existing document, it is possible to automatically set almost the same format as the existing document by a simple operation.

The present invention may be applied to a system including a plurality of devices or an apparatus including a single device. Further, it goes without saying that the present invention can be applied to the case where it is achieved by supplying a system or a program.

[0026]

As described above, according to the document processing apparatus of the present invention, it is possible to easily obtain data relating to the format of a document to be referred to and set it as a new document format. .

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a main configuration of a first embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a format information change processing operation sequence.

[Fig. 3] Display example of document selection menu screen

[Fig. 4] A display example of a menu screen for setting format information

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a format information setting processing operation sequence.

[Fig. 6] Example of file format of document file

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 CPU 2 Program Memory (PMEM) 3 Communication I / F 4 Keyboard 5 Pointing Device 6 Keyboard Interface 7 System Bus 8 CRT 9 Video RAM (VRAM) 10 Floppy Disk Drive 11 Hard Disk Drive 12 Disk Interface 13 Image Memory 14 Printer 15 Scanner 16 Character recognition device

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A document processing apparatus for inputting document information to create a document, a reading means for reading a printed image, and a recognition means for recognizing a character portion of a document image read by the reading means. And a discriminating means for discriminating a blank portion in the character portion read by the reading means, and a setting means for setting the format information acquired by each of these acquiring means as format data. A document processing device characterized by: 2. The document processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the format information acquired by each acquisition unit is information about a column of the format.