JPH08323951A - Turned letter checking supporting device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To prevent the oversight of a turned letter font and replace easily the same to a corresponding letter font. CONSTITUTION: A turned letter font in the data of a raster image forming print display image conversion section 10 is found by the image identification method carried out by an image identification processor 12. The turned letter font thus found is passed through an image data rewriting section 14, and a turned letter checking section 16, and is output in transparent color different from the color of ordinary font, so the turned letter font is not overlooked. On the other hand, the turned letter font is output through the image data rewrite section 14 and a final print display output section 18 to be output colorlessly, so it is unnecessary to erase the turned letters at the time when the turned letters are replaced by a corresponding final letter font.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention converts character code data into print display image data using font data having information on character shape, and does not include the fond data in the character code data. Regarding character code data (a character corresponding to such character code data is hereinafter referred to as a getter character), after being converted into the print display image data using the getter character font data having a specific special shape The present invention relates to a getter character confirmation support device that finds out the character shape of the getter character in the print display image data by an image recognition method, and in particular, converts from the character code data by preventing oversight of the getter character replacement character. The quality of the print display image output afterwards is further improved, and the font of the character replacement character is also used. Of about Geta word verification support device capable of achieving efficiency improvement of the work to replace the final corresponding character font corresponding to the character code.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When a plate-making manuscript is made on the basis of an inputted manuscript, a work including a great number of steps is required. For example,
Each material to be printed is handled separately as an image, a character, and a line drawing, and in recent years, plate making processing using a computer is performed. During this, a plurality of steps are required. For example,
A document of a material having gradation such as a photograph is handled as an image, and is usually input as image data by a color scanner device, and a layout process, a cutout process, etc. are executed using a computer. on the other hand,
For a manuscript of a material treated as characters, after inputting in the form of character code data, typesetting processing, pasting processing, halftone dot processing and the like using a computer are executed. Further, an original made of a binary image having no gradation is handled as a line drawing, and after being input as line drawing data by a monochrome scanner device, layout processing and halftone processing are executed using a computer. It

The plate making system using a computer as described above has been widely used in recent years. Further, in such a plate making system, since the manuscript of the material which is usually treated as a character is treated as the character code data as described above, the font having the information about the character shape is generally provided immediately before the above-mentioned pasting process. The data is used to convert to print display image data. This print display image data is also called raster scan image data or raster image data, and is image data that is printed out by a printer or the like or is output to a CRT (cathode ray tube) display.

Here, particularly in the plate making system,
It generally corresponds to various types of typefaces, for example, Mincho typeface, Gothic typeface, and even a special typeface. Also, in general typefaces such as Mincho and Gothic,
Further, there may be a case where a plurality of types are provided. A group of font data prepared for each typeface will be referred to as a font data set hereinafter. Here, in such a plate making system, it is general that the original of the material treated as a character is also color-supported.

Therefore, in a manuscript of a material treated as such a character, each character code data indicating each character is added to the data of the main character code body of, for example, 2 bytes indicating the actual character, and the typeface of each character. (Hereinafter referred to as character font type data), data indicating the display color of each character (hereinafter referred to as character display color data), and data indicating various special functions (hereinafter referred to as
Character special function data)) and the like. The special function is, for example, when a line drawing overlaps a character, the line drawing is preferentially displayed or printed, and the transparent color is designated when the time is expressed by a so-called transparent color. In addition, such a special function is a colorless display such as no display or no printing under some conditions.

As the above character code body data, there is usually a JIS (Japanese Industrial Standard) Kanji code. The JIS kanji code is roughly divided into a non-kanji part whose first byte is hexadecimal 21h to 2Fh, a first level kanji part whose first byte is 30h to 4Fh, and a first byte 50h. It can be the second level Kanji part represented by ~ 74h. Currently,
6879 characters are defined as the non-Kanji part, the first level Kanji part and the second level Kanji part. In addition to this,
6067 characters are defined as an auxiliary kanji part. Here, when the character font type data is provided for each of the character code data and a plurality of types of font data sets are supported, a large amount of font data is provided for all font data sets, and a wide range of Kanji (character ) Is difficult to handle. For example, it is difficult to make all the prepared font data sets correspond to the above-mentioned auxiliary kanji part. Therefore, in some cases, individual character code data to be displayed or printed may have font data that is not provided in advance. For example, special Kanji character code data that is rarely used, or if there are few registered font data in a special font data set, such character code data that does not have font data in advance. Occurs.

Character code data that is not provided with font data is conventionally displayed or printed by replacing it with a character font.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing the print output of a document.

FIG. 11 shows a vertical writing sentence having 15 characters per line and a total of 7 lines. At the fifth character in the fifth line of this sentence, there is a character called a geta character (hereinafter referred to as a geta character font) in which there is a "■" mark in the "○" mark. This is because the characters of the four characters "x" marked "consciousness x leather" are not provided in advance with font data, and are therefore replaced with the above-mentioned geta font. Naturally, the characters replaced by such a character font (hereinafter referred to as the character replacement character)
Finally, the correct character shape corresponding to the original character code data (hereinafter referred to as the final corresponding character font)
Must be pasted. Further, conventionally, the pasting of such a final corresponding character font is performed by the procedure listed below as shown as a conventional method in FIG.

First, at the stage called the character work stage before converting into the print display image data using the font data, the work procedure for finding the character replacement character and pasting the final corresponding character font is It is as follows.

(Finding a getter character font in the character work stage of the conventional method and pasting the character font corresponding to it)

A1. Geta character inspection on the galley (manual visual inspection to find the presence and position of the geta character on the galley).

A2. Instructing on the galley (marking of the found geta font is done so that its position becomes clear, and also making an indication of the correct final corresponding character font).

Next, the operation of finding the getter character font in the line drawing work after converting the character code data into the print display image data using the font data and pasting it into the correct final corresponding character is as follows.

(Finding a character font at the line drawing work step of the conventional method and pasting the character corresponding to it)

B1. Search for geta characters on the galley (check the presence and position of the geta characters on the galley by visual inspection by hand).

B2. Alternatively, in place of B1 above, a search for a geta character on the screen (manual visual work, on the screen,
Check the presence and position of the geta character).

B3. Color the geta characters with a transparent color (the found geta characters are painted with a transparent color by operating the terminal screen).

B4. Paste the final corresponding character font (character line drawing data) (For the found character font, find the correct final corresponding character font from the character shape generating means such as another typesetting system,
Paste this).

[0020]

As described above, most of the work of pasting a getter character replacement character on the corresponding correct final corresponding character is a manual operation. For this reason, such a work may cause a problem such as missing a getter character replacement character, and is also a work that requires a great deal of skill. For example, in order to overlook a getter character replacement character, or for a found getter character replacement character, there is omission of entry of the above-mentioned code A2 on the galley, or transparency of the above-mentioned getter character B3. Forgetting to paint colors sometimes occurred. In this way, if the character replacement character is overlooked, or if an omission is made, the character font remains until final display or printing, which is a problem in display quality or print quality.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, and further improves the quality of the print display image output after conversion from the character code data by preventing the oversight of the getter character replacement character. It is an object of the present invention to provide a getter character confirmation support device capable of improving the efficiency of the work of replacing a font of a getter character replacement character with a final corresponding character font corresponding to an original character code.

[0022]

According to the present invention, font data having information on a character shape is used to convert character code data into print display image data, and the fond data in the character code data is provided. For character code data that is not included, the character shape of the getter character in the print display image data is found by an image recognition method after conversion to the print display image data using the getter font data. In a character confirmation support device, an image recognition processing device that finds the character shape of the getter character in the print display image data by an image recognition method, and the print display of the found character shape of the getter character. An image data rewriting unit that rewrites the corresponding data in the image data to a value that indicates the special color for getter characters, By having a getter character confirmation output unit that outputs the print display image data in a visually recognizable form while associating the special color for the getter character with a display color for the getter character different from the color of a normal character, The above object has been achieved.

In the getter character confirmation support device,
Further, by associating the special color for getter characters with a colorless printout color for getter characters and having a final print display output unit for outputting the print display image data, the above-mentioned problems can be achieved and confirmed. This is intended to facilitate the work of pasting the final corresponding character onto the getter character.

[0024]

In the present invention, first, the image recognition method which has been widely used in recent years is utilized to automatically perform the inspection for finding the font of the getter character in the print display image data. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the character replacement character from being overlooked. Here, in the present invention, attention is paid to the fact that it is important to grasp the following points regarding the inspection of the character replacement character found in this way.

(Examination of geta character replacement character).

C1. Presence or absence of geta character replacement character.

C2. Position and number of characters to replace the geta character.

C3. Content of the geta character replacement character (the last corresponding character corresponding to the original character code).

Therefore, regarding the found character font, it is necessary to output an image to the operator so that the above contents can be clarified in the character replacement character. Focusing on such a point, the present invention includes an image data rewriting unit 14 and a character confirmation output unit 16 which will be described later.

Further, regarding the getter character font found in this way, the getter character replacement character needs to be pasted to the last corresponding character corresponding to the original character code. At this time, the portion (corresponding to the galley) on the original document in which the getter character font is present needs to be colorless (solid) without the getter character font so that the last corresponding character can be pasted. Therefore, the present invention includes an image data rewriting unit 14 and a final print display output unit 18 which will be described later.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the gist of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the getter character confirmation support device of the present invention mainly includes an image recognition processing device 12, an image data rewriting unit 14, and a getter character confirmation output unit 16. Further, although the present invention is not limited to this, the final print display output unit 18 is provided if necessary. Further, the getter character confirmation support device of the present invention needs to input the print display image data obtained by converting the character code data by using the font data having the information about the character shape. Therefore, on the input side of the present invention, the print / display image conversion unit 10 that performs such conversion processing is generally arranged.

First, the print / display image conversion unit 10
Converts the character code data into print display image data using the font data. Further, the print / display image conversion unit 10 converts the character code data in the conversion source,
The character code data not provided with the font data is converted into the print display image data by using the font data of the geta character. In the print display image conversion unit 10, the font data,
Further, the font data of the geta character may be built-in or may be sequentially input from the outside.

The output of the print / display image conversion unit 10 is used as image data to be output to a film used as a printing block, or is also used as image data for CRT screen display, and is generally a raster image. This is called data. In the present invention, the print / display image conversion unit 1 used as described above.
With respect to the output data of 0, the getter character caused by the deficiency of the font data is found and dealt with.

The image recognition processing device 12 finds the font of the getter character in the print display image data output from the print display image conversion unit 10 by an image recognition method. Conventionally, such image recognition methods include, for example, a template matching method and a relation structure matching method. In the image recognition processing device 12, while applying such an image recognition method, for example, a getter character font having the above-described shape shown in FIG. 6 can be found.

The image data rewriting unit 14 sets the corresponding data in the print display image data of the font of the found character to the value indicating the special color for the character (hereinafter, the special color value for the character). Also called)). For example, the print display image data input to the present invention, which is generated by the print display image conversion unit 10, is a raster image, and has data relating to the gradation and color to be displayed for each pixel. In the present invention,
The data structure and the usage of the data are taken into consideration so that the special value for the getter character can be written in each pixel. It should be noted that such special value for getter characters, data structure, and how to use the data will be described later.

The getter character confirmation output unit 16 associates the getter character special color rewritten by the image data rewriting unit 14 with the getter character display color different from the normal character color, and The print display image data is output in a visually recognizable form. The getter character display color may be different from the normal character color. The output from the print character confirmation output unit 16 is for visual recognition of print characters, and may be displayed on a CRT or may be printed out. At this time, the getter character found in the image recognition processing device 12 is displayed in a color different from the normal font color by using the output from the getter character confirmation output unit 16, It becomes easier to distinguish the characters.

On the other hand, the final print display output unit 18 is provided as necessary, but the print display image data is stored while the special color for getter characters is associated with the colorless printout color for getter characters. Output. The print output color for the getter character may be colorless. Therefore, in the output from the final print display unit 18, the image recognition processing device 12
The geta characters found in are as if they do not exist. Therefore, when the correct final corresponding character is pasted to the print display image data output from the final print display output unit 18 as the character replacement character, this getter font is deleted again. The effort is saved. As described above, according to the present invention, first,
The image recognition processing device 12 automatically finds a geta character, and the image data rewriting unit 14 and the geta character confirmation output unit 16 more easily identify the geta character found as a normal character. Since it is possible to output in a possible form, it is possible to prevent the oversight of the getter character replacement character. Further, according to the present invention, regarding the getter characters found in the image recognition processing device 12, the image data rewriting unit 14 and the final print display output unit 1
Since it is possible to obtain an output that does not have the font of the getter character replacement character through 8, it is possible to omit the work of deleting the getter character when pasting (replacement) to the corresponding finally supported character font. It is possible to improve work efficiency.

The image data rewriting unit 1
4. The present invention is not particularly limited to the special color for getter characters (the data to be written becomes the special color value for getter characters) relating to the output part 16 for confirming getter character and the final print display output part 18. It can be recognized that the special color for getter characters should be associated with the display color for getter characters in the getter character confirmation output section 16, and the final print display output section 18 is provided. In this case, any color can be used as long as it can be associated with the colorless print output color for getter characters. For example, special data such as a flag may be added to the data of each pixel of the print display image output by the image data rewriting unit 14 in order to store such a special color value for the print character. A good value may be assigned to the special color value for the getter character in the data indicating the already existing colors. The present invention does not limit these.

Also, regarding the character shape of the geta character, the character shape with the mark "■" in the mark "○" in FIG. 11 is described above, but the present invention is not limited to this. The character shape of the geta character may be in correspondence with the image recognition processing unit 12.

[0041]

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

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of a geta character confirmation support device to which the present invention is applied.

As shown in FIG. 2, the getter character confirmation support apparatus of this embodiment is a raster image processor 10A for performing preprocessing and a fuzzy method image recognition processing apparatus 12A.
It has a RIP (raster image processor) data rewriting unit 14A, a CRT display device 16A, a display confirmation output unit 16B, a line drawing processing unit 20 for performing post-processing, and a final print data output unit 18A. Further, the character confirmation support device includes a RIP initial data storage unit 34 that stores RIP initial data that is input data, a RIP final data storage unit 40 that stores RIP final data that is temporary output data in the process, Further, the data storage unit 5 constituting the line drawing processing end data storage unit 42 is provided.

The correspondence relationship between each component shown in FIG. 2 and the component shown in FIG. 1 is as follows. That is, the raster image processor 10A corresponds to the print / display image conversion unit 10, the fuzzy method image recognition processing device 12A corresponds to the image recognition processing device 12, and the RIP data rewriting unit 14A corresponds to the image data rewriting unit. 14 corresponds to the CRT display device 1
6A and the display confirmation output unit 16B correspond to the print character confirmation output unit 16, and the final print data output unit 18
A corresponds to the final print display output unit 18.

First, the raster image processor 10
A uses the font data having the information about the character shape to convert the input character code data into print display image data. Further, the raster image processor 10A converts the character code data of the character code data, which is not provided with the font data, into the print display image data using the font data of the getter character. The print display image data obtained by the above conversion is input to the RIP initial data storage unit 34 of the hard disk device of this embodiment.

The fuzzy method image recognition processing device 12A
Is the raster image processor 10A.
The print display image data written in the initial data storage unit 34 is processed. The fuzzy method image recognition processing device 12A finds the font of the geta character in the print display image data by an image recognition method. The geta character font found in this way is a font of characters that are set as geta character replacement characters because font data is not provided. The fuzzy method image recognition processing device 12A
Outputs to the RIP data rewriting unit 14A the information regarding the character replacement character found by the image recognition method.

The RIP data rewriting unit 14A indicates the corresponding data in the print display image data of the font of the getter character found by the fuzzy method image recognition processing device 12A as the special color for the getter character. Overwrite with a value. Here, the RIP initial data storage unit 34 stores the print display image data output from the raster image processor 10A as run-length compressed line drawing data. First, this image data (line drawing data) is represented by 2 bytes, and the color number and the length (run length) of the pixel of the same color number are each represented by 1 byte. Therefore, the RIP data rewriting unit 14A rewrites the pixels having the character font in the color number indicating the special color for the character based on the information from the fuzzy method image recognition processing device 12A.

Here, for example, from the raster image processor 10A, the print display image data as shown in FIG. 3 is written in the RIP initial data storage section 34. Here, the fuzzy method image recognition processing device 12A finds and extracts a font of geta characters as shown in FIG. 4 from the print display image data as shown in FIG. Further, for example, for the print display image shown in FIG. 3, the RIP data rewriting unit 14
A is only the getter font part as shown in FIG.
The value of the color number is rewritten to the value indicating the special color for the getter character, that is, the special color value for the getter character.

The display confirmation output unit 16B is configured to output the RIP
The print display image data stored in the RIP initial data storage unit 34 updated by the data rewriting unit 14A is input. The display confirmation output unit 16B displays the print display image data on the CRT display device 16A by associating the special color for getter characters with the display color for getter characters different from the color of a normal font. Therefore, the print display image data thus displayed is in a visually recognizable form. For example, the display as shown in FIG. 3 is displayed in a visually recognizable form. In this display, the font of the getter character in FIG. 4 is displayed in a color different from the normal font (display color for the getter character), specifically, in red, which is different from the general black character.

On the other hand, the line drawing processing section 20 uses the RIP.
A predetermined line drawing process is performed on the line drawing data written in the final data storage unit 40. The result of such line drawing processing is output to the final print data output unit 18A.

In the final print data output section 18A, in the print display image data obtained from the line drawing processing section 20, the special color for getter characters is associated with the colorless getter character print output color. Is output to the line drawing processing end data storage unit 42. The final print data output unit 18A
In this way, the data conversion processing and the data writing processing to the line drawing finishing data storage unit 42 are performed.

The print display image data written in the line drawing processing end data storage unit 42 can be output as a galley original by a print output device (not shown).

FIG. 5 is a flow chart showing the operation of this embodiment.

In step 112 of FIG. 5, the raster image processor 10A first converts the input character code data into print display image data. In step 114, the raster image processor 10
A writes the print display image data thus converted into the RIP initial data storage unit 34.

In step 116, the fuzzy method image recognition processing 12 A is performed by the RIP initial data storage unit 34.
Reads the print display image data written in. Further, the fuzzy method image recognition processing device 12A performs a getter character image recognition process in step 118. In this getter character image recognition process, the fuzzy method image recognition processing device 12A finds a getter character font in the print display image data read from the RIP initial data storage unit 34 by an image recognition method. Is. The information about the Geta font found in this way is:
It is output to the RIP data rewriting unit 14A.

In step 120, first, the RIP data rewriting unit 14A, based on the information from the fuzzy method image recognition processing device 12A, finds the corresponding data in the print display image data of the found character font. Update to the special color value for geta characters. The update to the transparent color value is actually performed by writing the data in the RIP final data storage unit 40 in step 122.

Subsequently, at step 124, the line drawing processing section 20 which carries out the post-processing of this embodiment reads the data written by the RIP data rewriting section 14A.

Then, in step 126, the line drawing processing unit 2
0 performs the processing relating to the line drawing as described above. In step 126, the final print data output unit 18A associates the special color for the glyph character with the colorless print output color for the glyph character, and writes this to the line drawing end data storage unit 42. Regarding the print display image data written in this way, there is almost no geta character found in the fuzzy method image recognition processing device 12A.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be shown mainly in FIG. 6 to FIG. 9 focusing on changes in the background color and the character color.
Here, FIG. 6 and FIG. 8 are flowcharts showing the flow of more detailed processing. 7 and 9 are line diagrams of tables showing changes in the background color value and the character color value, which are shown in correspondence with the steps of these flowcharts.

FIG. 10 shows a display color table.
The relationship between the display color on the screen (on the side of the CRT display device 16A) and the color of the print output (on the side of the line drawing processing end data storage unit 42) corresponding to each color value of the image data is shown. In the display color table, in the case of a screen display, the transparent color 1 is associated with colorless, the special color for getter characters is associated with red, and black is associated with black. On the other hand, in the case of output for printing, the transparent color 1 is associated with colorlessness, the special color for getter characters is associated with colorlessness, and black is associated with black.
Further, the process shown in FIG. 6 is a process centered on finding a gator character. Further, the processing shown in FIG. 8 is processing centered on processing image data.

Based on these FIGS. 6 to 9, the operation of the present embodiment will be described in more detail in the order of executed processes, particularly in correspondence with steps S1 to S11 of FIGS. 6 and 8.

S1. Image data reading process: background color value (data) = transparent color 1 value, character color value (data) = black value, getter character color value (data) = black value, (processing content = raster image processor 10A) From the RIP initial data storage unit 34).

S2. Memory development processing: background color value (data) = transparent color 1 value, character color value (data) = black value, getter character color value (data) = black value, (processing content = RIP initial data storage unit) Data from 34 to the fuzzy method image recognition processing device 12A,
Data is expanded in the fuzzy method image recognition processing device 12A).

S3. Automatic recognition processing: background color value (data) = transparent color 1 value, character color value (data) = black value, getter character color value (data) = black value, (processing content = fuzzy method image recognition processing) Find the character shape of the gator character in the device 12A).

S4. Number / coordinate value calculation processing: background color value (data) = transparent color 1 value, character color value (data) = black value, getter character color value (data) = black value, (processing content = fuzzy method) In the image recognition processing device 12A, while calculating the coordinate value of the found geta character,
Find the total number of geta characters found).

S5. Getter character paint color processing: background color value (data) = transparent color 1 value, character color value (data) = black value, getter character color value (data) = special color value for getter character, (processing content = getter From the coordinate value of the character, the RI
The P data rewriting unit 14A rewrites the data of the getter character to the transparent color 2 (corresponding to the special display color value)).

S6. Image data writing process: background color value (data) = transparent color 1 value, character color value (data) = black value, getter character color value (data) = getter character special color value, (processing content = found When the rewriting of all the data of the obtained getter characters is completed, the RIP data rewriting unit 14A updates the data of the RIP initial data storage unit 34 based on the rewriting).

S7. Image data reading process: background color value (data) = transparent color 1 value, character color value (data) = black value, getter character color value (data) = getter character special color value, (processing content = the above CRT The display device 16A and the RIP final data output unit 18A read the updated data from the RIP initial data storage unit 34).

S8. Memory development processing: background color value (data) = transparent color 1 value, character color value (data) = black value, getter character color value (data) = getter character special color value, (processing content = display confirmation above) The output unit 16B and the line drawing processing unit 26 each expand the read data in the memory).

S9. Display color table reference processing: Background color value (data) = transparent color 1 value, character color value (data) = black value, getter character color value (data) = getter character special color value, (processing content = the above The display confirmation output unit 16B and the final print data output unit 18A respectively refer to the display color table to set the transparent color 2 to a special display color (display output),
Or, correspond to colorless (printed output)).

S10. Image processing: Background color value (data) = transparent color 1 value, character color value (data) = black value, getter character color value (data) = getter character special color value (however, for display, the above-mentioned getter The character display color is red, and the print output is colorless as the print character color print output color.) (Processing content = the display confirmation output unit 16B and the final print data output unit 18A The data processing is performed so that the display color of the getter character on the CRT becomes a special display color, and the display color of the getter character in the line drawing end data storage unit 42 is colorless. Data processing is done so that).

S11. Image data writing process: background color value (data) = transparent color 1 value, character color value (data) = black value, getter character color value (data) = getter character special color value (however, for display The display color for the getter character is red, and the color for printout is the printout color for the getter character is colorless), (processing content = the final print data output unit 18A).
Is the processed data, the line drawing end data storage unit 4
2).

The processing performed in the above step S3,
That is, the processing performed by the fuzzy method image recognition processing device 12A is the “new image processing technology” (Kogaku Kenkyusha) No. 7
Using the image component labeling method described on pages 2 to 81, parameters for fuzzy evaluation are extracted,
The fuzzy membership function is used to recognize the character image. However, the present invention does not limit the image recognition method used.

In the present embodiment as described above, since the font data is not provided, the geta character replacement character replaced with the geta character font is found, and this is the final character corresponding to the character code. As shown in FIG. 12, the operation of replacing with the corresponding character font is as follows.
It is done as follows. First, at the stage of character work, it is done as follows.

(Finding a getter font at the character working stage in this embodiment and pasting this final corresponding character font)

D1. Geta character inspection on the galley (visually inspected by a human on the galley (paper surface) output from the character processing system).

D2. Instructions on the galley (for the character font found in this way, perform instructions such as the final corresponding characters corresponding to the character code to be replaced).

Further, in the present embodiment, the work of finding the getter character font in the line drawing work after converting the character code data into the print display image data using the font data and pasting it into the correct final corresponding character Is as follows:

(Finding a character font at the line drawing work stage of the conventional method and pasting the character corresponding to it)

E1. Not necessary (corresponding to B1 described above).

E2. Checking the position of the geta character recognized on the screen (check the position of the geta character font that is displayed or printed in a different color from the normal font).

E3. Not necessary (corresponding to B3 described above).

E4. Paste the character LW data (paste the final corresponding character font to the confirmed getter font).

As described above, according to this embodiment,
It is possible to easily confirm what has been replaced with the getter character font data from the CRT display device 16A, and to prevent the getter character replacement character from being overlooked.
The quality of the print display image output that is output to the P final data storage unit 40 can be further improved. Furthermore, the RI
It is possible to remove the getter character font from the print display image data output to the P final data storage unit 40, and it is possible to efficiently replace the getter character replacement character font with the final corresponding character font corresponding to the original character code. You can do it well. In addition, E1 and E3 in FIG.
As described above, it is possible to omit the work conventionally required and improve the work efficiency.

[0085]

As described above, according to the present invention,
By preventing oversight of the character replacement character, the quality of the print display image output after conversion from the character code data is further improved, and the font of the character replacement character is replaced with the final corresponding character font corresponding to the original character code. An excellent effect that the work efficiency can be improved can be obtained.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the gist of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of a geta character confirmation support device to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of input print display image data targeted by the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a character font in the print display image data.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a getter character confirmation support process of the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing in more detail a process centered on finding a geta character in the embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing changes in the background color value and the character color value related to the processing centered on finding a getter character in the embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing in more detail the processing centered on processing the image data in the above embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing changes in the background color value and the character color value related to the processing centered on processing the image data in the embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a display color table used in the embodiment.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of a character font found in a manuscript.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a work content relating to a gator character, comparing the embodiment with the conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 ... Print display image conversion unit 10A ... Raster image processor 12 ... Image recognition processing device 12A ... Fuzzy method image recognition processing device 14 ... Image data rewriting unit 14A ... RIP data rewriting unit 16 ... Get character confirmation output unit 16A ... CRT display Device 18 ... Final print display output unit 18A ... RIP final data output unit 20 ... Line drawing processing unit 34 ... RIP initial data storage unit 40 ... RIP final data storage unit 42 ... RIP line drawing processing end data storage unit

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. The character code data is converted into print display image data by using font data having information on the character shape, and the character code data not including the fond data in the character code data is: In the getter character confirmation support device for converting the print display image data using the getter character font data to find the character shape of the getter character in the print display image data by an image recognition method, An image recognition processing device for finding the character shape of the getter character in the print display image data by an image recognition method, and the corresponding data in the print display image data of the found character shape of the getter character, An image data rewriting unit that rewrites the special color for the character text and the special color for the character text. While association with the color of the character different Geta character display color, the print display Getah word verification support device characterized by having a Geta character confirmation output unit for outputting visual recognizable form image data. 2. The final print display output unit according to claim 1, further comprising: outputting the print display image data while associating the special color for getter characters with a colorless printout color for getter characters. Geta character confirmation support device.