JPH09311805A - Document processing method and device therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manage documents from the viewpoint of users and also to easily collect and use the documents by analyzing a new document to judge a storage destination folder and informing user of this folder. SOLUTION: A storage candidate retrieval part 103 retrieves a folder that is suitable as the storage destination of the document held at a new document holding part 102. The candidates of storage destinations retrieved by the part 103 are held at a storage candidate holding part 104. Then a folder retrieval part 108 retrieves a folder that is held at a document holding part 101 based on the retrieval condition which is held at a retrieval condition holding part 107. The folder labels are displayed in order of holders held at the part 104, so that a user can easily select the storage destinations by looking at the periphery of the display head of the folder labels. The user also can select the folders to search for the documents and can effectively perform the data retrieval processing.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to an electronic newspaper,
The present invention relates to a document processing device that collects digitized documents used in electronic publishing, electronic circulation, etc., and manages the collected documents.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, information distribution based on electronic documents such as electronic newspapers, electronic publishing, and electronic circulation has become widespread.
A document processing device is used to collect and manage such documents.

Conventionally, in this type of document processing apparatus, a method has been adopted in which newly arrived documents are enumerated, and a user browses them to collect necessary documents. Folders are prepared, and the user selects a save destination from the listed folders and saves the document. When using a saved document, a method of selecting a folder from the listed and using the document in the folder is adopted. Here, there may be a method in which folders are hierarchically held and the folders can be selected by tracing the hierarchy.

When using this document processing apparatus, the user puts related documents in the same folder from the viewpoint of his / her own, saves them, selects a folder according to his / her own viewpoint at the time of use, and selects a desired document. Will be used.

As a document processing apparatus for managing collected documents without using folders, a database management system for performing a search using the attributes of a document, an information search system for performing a search by adding a keyword to a document, or a document There is a full-text search system that searches for the presence or absence of search words in the text of.

[0006]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional apparatus, it is difficult to find a save destination folder at the time of collection, and it is difficult to find an appropriate folder at the time of use, which reduces the efficiency of document collection and use. There is a point. This phenomenon occurs when there are many folders, when there are many folders, it becomes difficult to list the listed folders to find an appropriate folder, and hold folders hierarchically. By doing so, this problem is alleviated to some extent, but the user's viewpoint often changes over time, and the hierarchical structure created earlier does not match the subsequent viewpoint, making it difficult to trace the hierarchy. , It becomes difficult to find the folder, or
If a certain amount of time has passed since a folder was last used, the user often forgets what the folder was or the existence of the folder itself. It will be difficult to find. When it becomes difficult to find a folder, at the time of collection, the number of folders may be kept small, put in an inappropriate folder, saved in a plurality of folders, or saved. In such a case, the folder does not correctly reflect the viewpoint, and it becomes difficult to search for a desired document from the folder at the time of use.

On the other hand, when trying to manage a document by using a database management system or an information retrieval system, it is necessary to add an attribute value, a keyword, etc. at the time of collecting the document, and the load at the time of collecting is high. Since this type of document processing device is often used by an individual on a daily basis, a high load at the time of collection is a problem.

In a method of using a database management system or an information search system by using only attributes and keywords previously given to a document, or a method of managing a document by using a full-text search system, the method is based on the viewpoint of the user. There is a problem that it becomes difficult to search.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and manages documents from the user's point of view, and a document processing method and apparatus that can easily collect and use the documents. The purpose is to provide.

[0010]

Means for Solving the Problems To solve the above problems,
The present invention preferably holds a folder and a document belonging to the folder, and determines a holding folder suitable for a new document from the folders held in the document holding means by analyzing the new document, and the judgment is made. A document processing method and apparatus for notifying the storage destination folder are provided.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention holds a folder and a document belonging to the folder, holds a new document, searches a folder suitable as a storage destination of the held document, and searches the folder. Output the candidate of save destination,
A document processing method and apparatus for selecting a storage destination of the held new document and holding the new document so as to belong to the selected storage destination folder.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention holds folders and documents belonging to the folders, holds new documents, and classifies the new documents for each folder suitable as a storage destination of the held documents. Provided is a document processing method and apparatus for outputting the classified results, instructing a change of the classified results, and holding the new document so that the new document belongs to the changed save destination folder.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention preferably instructs the change of the storage destination by deleting the classification result output by the classification result output means.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention preferably creates a new folder.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention preferably contains the information of the representative value of the document feature of the document held in the folder.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention preferably sets the representative value of the document characteristics to an average value of the document characteristics of the documents held in the folder.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention preferably compares the document features of the new document with the representative values of the document features contained in the folder, and selects the folders determined to be similar to each other. It is determined that the new document is suitable for storage.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention preferably determines a plurality of folders suitable as the storage destination of the document, and outputs the classification with respect to the plurality of determined folders.

In order to solve the above problems, in the present invention, the classification result output means is preferably a display.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention preferably retains search conditions, searches the retained folders according to the retained search conditions, and notifies the retrieved folders.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention preferably searches the folder holding the document that matches the held search condition.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention preferably uses a character string as the search condition.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention preferably reports the name of the searched folder as the search result.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention preferably notifies the search results in the descending order of match score with the search condition.

[0025]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of an apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In the figure, reference numeral 101 denotes a document holding unit for holding a folder and a document belonging to the folder. 10
Reference numeral 2 denotes a new document holding unit that holds a newly arrived document. A storage candidate search unit 103 searches for a folder suitable as a storage destination of the document held in the new document holding unit 102. A storage candidate holding unit 104 holds the storage destination candidates searched by the storage candidate searching unit 103. Reference numeral 105 denotes a storage destination storage unit that stores the storage destination selected by the user from the storage candidates stored in the storage candidate storage unit 104. 106 is a new document holding unit 1
The document holding unit 1 so that the document held in 02 belongs to the save destination folder held in the save destination holding unit 105.
This is a storage processing unit that performs the processing of holding 01. 107
Is a search condition holding unit that holds search conditions for folders. Reference numeral 108 denotes a folder search unit that searches the folders held in the document holding unit 101 according to the search conditions held in the search condition holding unit 107. 10
Reference numeral 9 is a search result holding unit that holds the folders searched by the folder searching unit 108.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a specific configuration of the document processing apparatus of this embodiment. In the figure, 201 is a CPU, which operates according to a program stored in the ROM 203.

Reference numeral 202 denotes a ROM, which is a new document holding unit 1.
02, a storage candidate storage unit 104, a storage destination storage unit 105, a search condition storage unit 107, a search result storage unit, and a storage area required for the operation of the program. 203 is ROM
And holds a program that implements the procedure of the flowchart described below. A disk device 204 realizes the document holding unit 101. 205 is a bus. 206
Is a display capable of displaying characters and images, such as a CRT and a liquid crystal display. Reference numeral 207 is an input unit such as a keyboard or a pointing device.

In the present embodiment, the document holding unit 101 has a structure for holding a document list and a folder list. The document d is composed of the following data.

D = (t, v (d)) where t is the text data of the document, and v (d) is a vector expressing the feature of the text t based on the vector space model. The folder f is composed of the following data.

F = (1, D, v (f)) Here, 1 is a label, which is a character string for the user to visually recognize the folder, and is input by the user using the input means 207 such as a keyboard. It may be added or automatically added. D is a set of documents saved in the folder, and D may be empty. vf is a vector obtained by averaging vectors v (d) (dεD) for all documents d stored in the folder f. Hereinafter, the number of folders held in the document holding unit 101 is represented by N. The new document holding unit 102 has a structure for holding one document. The storage candidate holding unit 104, the storage destination holding unit 105, and the search result holding unit 109 are a list holding folder numbers. The search condition holding unit 107 has a structure for holding a search expression indicating a search word and its logical relationship.

Hereinafter, with reference to the flowchart of FIG.
The procedure of the storage candidate search process in the document processing apparatus of this embodiment will be described.

In step S301, the new document holding unit 1
It is checked whether the text t (n) of the document newly arrived at 02 is held, and if the document is held, step S
Moving on to 302. If not held, step S3
01 is repeated until the text tn of the new document is held in the new document holding unit 102. Here, the text t (n) of the new document arrives at the new document holding unit 102 at the timing of the user's input instruction or the timing of automatic supply from the text supplier.

In step S302, the text t (n)
Then, a feature vector v (d _n ) is created and stored in the new document storage unit 102 together with t (n). Then, the process proceeds to step S303.

In step S303, the value of the folder number counter x for sequentially accessing the folder information held in the document holding unit 101 is set to an initial value of 1. Then, the process proceeds to step S304.

In step S304, S305 to S30
The value of the counter x is compared with the number N of folders in the document holding unit 101 in order to determine whether the processing of 7 has been performed for all folders held in the document holding unit 101, and x
If ≦ N, the process moves to step S305. If x> N, the save candidate search process shown in the flowchart of FIG. 3 ends.

In step S305, the document holding unit 101
X th folder f (x) as a new document d (n) with respect to the score s = g in _{(v (d n), v} (fx)) is calculated. Here, the function g is shown below.

G (v (1), v (2)) = (v (1) ·
v (2)) / (| v (1) || v (2) |) After obtaining the score S, the process proceeds to step S306.

In step S306, step S305
The storage candidate holding unit 10 is arranged in the ascending order of the scores s obtained in
The number x of the folder for which the score is obtained in S305 is held in S4 together with the score S. Then, the process proceeds to step S307.

In step S307, the value of the counter x is incremented by 1. Then, the process returns to step S304.

The information (folder label, etc.) concerning the candidate folders of the save destinations, which are obtained by the save candidate search processing described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. The documents held in the new document holding unit 102 are displayed in association with each other (ascending order of the score S), and the user is notified.

The folders displayed on this display may be all folders held in the storage candidate holding unit 104, or only upper folders selected by the score S and the number M.

Next, referring to the flowchart of FIG.
A procedure of document saving processing in the document processing apparatus according to the present embodiment will be described.

In step S401, the storage destination holding unit 10
It is checked whether or not the list F of save destination folders is held in 5, and if it is held, the process proceeds to step S402. If the list F is not held, the step S401 is repeated and the storage destination holding unit 105 waits until the list F is held. The list F is a sequence of folders input by the user with an input unit such as a keyboard, and the user considers candidate folder information of a save destination notified based on the data held in the save candidate holding unit 104. Enter list F.

At step S402, the number of the folder in the list F to be accessed at that time is shown. The value of the counter x is set to the initial value of 1. Then, the process proceeds to step S403.

In step S403, the value of the counter x is compared with the number of storage destinations | F |, and if x ≦ | F |, the process proceeds to step S404. If x> | F |, the document saving process shown in the flowchart of FIG. 4 ends.

In step S404, the storage destination holding unit 10
The new document d (n) is added to the document list D (Fx) of the folder f (Fx) corresponding to the x-th item in 5. Further, with respect to the new D (Fx) to which this d (n) is added, the average of the vector v (d) (dεD (Fx) is calculated to obtain a new v (f (Fx)). Then, step S405.
Move on to.

In step S405, the value of the counter x is incremented by 1. Then, the process returns to step S403.

Next, referring to the flowchart of FIG.
The procedure of the folder search process in the document processing apparatus according to the present embodiment will be described.

In step S501, the search condition holding unit 1
It is checked whether or not the search condition c is held in 07, and if it is held, the process proceeds to step S502. If not held, step S501 is repeated until the search condition c is held. The search condition c is a character string of a word or a sentence input by the user from an input unit such as a keyboard.

In step S502, the value of the counter x, which indicates the number of the folder to be accessed at that time among all the folders held in the document holding unit 101, is set to 1 by default. Then, control goes to a step S503.

In step S503, the value of the counter x is compared with the total number N of folders in the document holding unit 101, and x≤
If N, the process moves to step S504. If x> N, the folder search process shown in the flowchart of FIG. 5 ends.

In step S504, the document holding unit 101
The score s is calculated for the x-th folder f (x) in the inside and the search condition c by the following formula.

[0055]

[Outside 1]

The function f checks by pattern matching whether or not there is a search word c in the document, and if c is in the document, sets f (c, d) = 1 for that document and sets C Is not in the document, f (c, d) = 0. This judgment is made for all documents D in the xth folder.
Perform (x). Therefore, the score s is obtained by dividing the number of documents having the search word c in the xth folder by the total number of documents | D (x) |.

After the search score S for the xth folder is obtained in S505, the process proceeds to step S505.

In step S505, step S504
The search result holding unit 10 is arranged in the ascending order of the scores s obtained in
The number x of the folder for which the score S is obtained in S504 is held in S9 together with the score S. Then, the process proceeds to step S506.

In step S506, the value of the counter x is incremented by 1. Then, the process returns to step S503.

Information (folder labels, etc.) regarding the folders of the search results, which are obtained by the folder search processing described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. It is displayed in association with the search word c in the ascending order of s) and notified to the user. The folders displayed on the display 206 may be all folders held in the search result holding unit 109, or only upper folders selected by the score S or the number M.

Using the document processing apparatus of this embodiment,
At the time of collecting documents, an optimum folder as a save destination of a new document is held at the head of the save candidate holding unit 104.

Therefore, for example, by displaying the labels of the folders according to the order in which they are stored in the storage candidate storage unit 104, the user can easily select the storage destination by looking around the top of the display. When a document is used, if search conditions are specified, it is possible to search for a folder in which documents that match the search condition are gathered. Therefore, it is possible to narrow down the folders in which the document is searched, and the search process can be performed efficiently.

As described above, by using the document processing apparatus of this embodiment, the documents can be held in the folder in accordance with the viewpoint, and the documents can be easily collected and used.

In the present embodiment, a case has been described in which a function for facilitating the processing of both document collection and retrieval / use is realized, but the present invention is not limited to this. It may be one that realizes a function that facilitates only collection or use. A block diagram of an embodiment in this case is shown in FIGS. Note that, as is clear from comparison with the configuration of FIG. 1 described above, the configurations 601 to 607 of FIG.
Corresponds to 101 to 107 in FIG. Further, configurations 701 to 704 in FIG.
It corresponds to 108 and 109.

(Other Embodiment 1) In the above embodiment,
Although a case has been described in which the candidate of the save destination folder is searched for each document and the candidate of the save destination folder for the document is presented to facilitate the work required for collection, the present invention is not limited to this. Not something. In the present embodiment, an example will be described in which documents that are determined to be suitable as storage destinations for newly arrived documents are classified, and documents corresponding to each folder are presented to facilitate the work required for collection. To do.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of the apparatus according to this embodiment. In the figure, 801 is
A document holding unit for holding a folder and a document belonging to the folder. Reference numeral 802 denotes a new document holding unit that holds a newly arrived document. 803 is a new document holding unit 80
2 is a document classification unit that classifies documents into folders suitable as storage destinations for the documents held in 2. Reference numeral 804 is a classification result holding unit that holds the results classified by the document classification unit 803. Reference numeral 805 denotes a save target document holding unit that holds a document to be saved. Reference numeral 806 denotes a save destination creation unit that creates a save destination of the save target document held in the save target document holding unit 805 from the classification result held in the classification result holding unit 804. Reference numeral 807 denotes a save destination holding unit that holds the save destination created by the save destination creating unit 806. Reference numeral 808 denotes a storage destination holding unit 807 by the user.
It is a save destination changing unit that changes the save destination held in. Reference numeral 809 denotes a save processing unit that performs a process of holding the document held in the save target document holding unit 805 in the document holding unit 801 so that the document belongs to the save destination folder held in the save destination holding unit 807.

In the present embodiment, the classification result holding unit 804
Has a structure for holding a set of documents classified for each folder f. The saving target document holding unit has a structure for holding one document before saving. Document holding unit 80
1, the new document holding unit 802, and the storage destination holding unit 807 are the same as the configurations 101, 102, and 105 of FIG. 1 described above.

The apparatus configuration of this embodiment is the same as that of FIG. 2 described above, and the description thereof is omitted here.

Hereinafter, with reference to the flowchart of FIG.
A procedure of document classification processing in the document processing apparatus according to the present embodiment will be described.

In step S901, the new document holding unit 8
It is checked whether the text t (n) of the document newly arrived at 02 is held, and if the document is held, step S
Move to 902. If not held, step S9
01 is repeated, and the text t of the newly arrived document
Wait for (n) to be retained.

In step S902, the text t (n)
Holding the new document holding unit 802 with the feature vector v (d _n) to create a t (n) with respect to. Then, the process proceeds to step S903.

In step S903, the value of the counter x indicating the number of the folder currently held in the document holding unit 801 is set to 1 which is the initial value. Then, the process proceeds to step S904.

In step S904, the value of the counter x is compared with the number N of folders in the document holding unit 801, and x ≦ N.
If so, the process proceeds to step S905. If x> N, the process ends.

In step S905, the document holding unit 801
X th folder f (x) as a new document d (n) with respect to the score s = g in _{(v (d n), v} (fx)) is calculated. Then, the process proceeds to step S906.

In step S906, step S905
The score s obtained in step S is compared with a preset threshold Sc, and if s> Sc, the process proceeds to step S907. s ≦
If it is Sc, the process proceeds to step S908.

In step S907, the classification result holding unit 8
At 04, the new document d (n) is added to the set corresponding to the folder f (x). Then, the process proceeds to step S908.

At step S908, the value of the counter x is incremented by 1. Then, the process returns to step S904.

In the storage destination creating process, the document held in the storage target document holding unit 805 is stored in the classification result holding unit 804.
Save folder 807 for all folders that belong to
To hold. In the save destination changing process, a folder is added to or deleted from the save destination list held in the save destination holding unit 807 according to a user's instruction. The saving process is similar to the saving process of the previous embodiment shown in the flowchart of FIG.

When the document processing apparatus of this embodiment is used, when the documents are collected, the documents judged to be stored in each folder are classified into folders and held in the classification result holding unit 804. Therefore, for example, if the documents are browsed for each folder according to the classification stored in the classification result storage unit 804, the user can collectively browse related documents according to his / her own viewpoint. Further, the storage destination holding unit 807
Since the default save destination is stored in, and no change is required, and if the change instruction is not input from the input unit 207, the user does not instruct the save destination again, and the save processing is performed only by the save instruction. It is also possible. As described above, by using the document processing apparatus according to the present embodiment, the document can be browsed along the viewpoint and the storage destination according to the viewpoint can be obtained, which facilitates the work required to collect the document.

(Other Example 2) In the above-described embodiment, a case has been described in which a storage destination is created from a classification result, and the user changes only the storage destination, but the present invention is not limited to this. Instead of this, an example will be described in which the collection is facilitated by changing the storage destination while also using the storage candidate in combination with the storage candidate creation processing shown in FIG.

FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of the apparatus according to this embodiment. In the figure, 1001
Is a document holding unit that holds a folder and a document belonging to the folder. A new document storage unit 1002 stores a newly arrived document. Reference numeral 1003 denotes a document classification unit that classifies the documents held in the new document holding unit 1002 into folders suitable as storage destinations of the documents. 1004
Is a classification result holding unit that holds the results classified by the document classification unit 1003. Reference numeral 1005 denotes a save target document holding unit that holds a document to be saved. 10
Reference numeral 06 denotes a save destination creation unit that creates a save destination of the save target document held in the save target document holding unit 1005 from the classification result held in the classification result holding unit 1004.
Reference numeral 1007 is a storage destination storage unit that stores the storage destination created by the storage destination creation unit 1006. Reference numeral 1008 searches a folder suitable as a save destination of the document held in the save target document holding unit 1005, and selects a folder excluding the folder held in the save destination holding unit 1007 as a save destination candidate. This is a storage candidate creation unit. 1009 is
This is a storage candidate storage unit that stores the storage destination candidates created by the storage candidate creation unit 1008. Reference numeral 1010 denotes a save destination changing unit that changes the save destination held in the save destination holding unit 1007 and the save candidate held in the save candidate holding unit 1009 by the user. A reference numeral 1011 indicates that the document stored in the storage target document storage unit 1005 is not stored in the storage destination.
This is a storage processing unit that performs processing for storing the document in the document storage unit 1001 so that it belongs to the storage destination folder stored in 007.

In this embodiment, the document holding unit 1001, the new document holding unit 1002, the classification result holding unit 1004, and the storage destination holding unit 1007 are the configurations 901 and 9 of FIG. 9 described above.
02, 904, and 907. Further, the storage candidate holding unit is the same as the configuration 104 of FIG. 1 described above.
Each process is similar to the process described above, but the save destination changing process is partially different. In the save destination changing process according to the present embodiment, the save destination deleted from the save destination holding unit 1007 is held in the save candidate holding unit 1009. In addition, when the storage destination candidate stored in the storage candidate storage unit 1009 is added to the storage destination storage unit 1007, it is deleted from the storage candidate storage unit 1009.

By using the document processing apparatus according to the present embodiment, it becomes possible to easily find a folder to be added when the classification result is modified in determining the storage destination, and the documents can be collected more easily.

It should be noted that in all the embodiments described so far, the case where the score is calculated by using the distance relation of the feature vectors in the save candidate search process and the document classification process has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this. It is not something that will be done. Other methods that can obtain a score indicating the degree to which a document belongs to a folder may be used. For example, a keyword given by the user and a search condition c based on its logical relationship are added to the data in the folder to obtain f = (1, D, c, v (f)), and the score is s = f (c (x)). , D (n)) or s = f (c (x), d (n)) * C +
g (v (fx), v (d n)) and a method of calculating the (C is an arbitrary constant).

Further, although a case has been described in which a search condition is used in a folder search process based on a keyword and its logical relationship, the present invention is not limited to this. Other methods that can search folders may be used. For example, another folder f close to the folder you want to search
Using (t) as a search condition, the score s is s = g (v (f
x), v (ft)). Alternatively, the score s is s = g (v (fx), v (d) using the document d (t) close to the contents of the searched folder as the search condition.
There is a method of calculating as t)).

In the above embodiment, the case in which only the folder search section is provided as a structure for realizing the search at the time of use has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this, and a document is searched. A document search unit may be provided.

In the above embodiment, the case where the classification corresponding to all the folders is performed in the document classification processing has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this, and is limited to a specific folder. You may classify. For example, the folders may be limited to folders designated by the user, or may be limited to folders used within a certain period.

In the above embodiments, the case where the score is obtained by the same method in the document classification process and the score is compared with the same threshold value to make the determination is described, but the present invention is not limited to this. The method for obtaining the score may be changed, or the threshold may be changed, depending on the corresponding folder.

In the above embodiment, the case where all the folders are held as a result in the save candidate search process and the folder search process has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this, and some of them are retained. Only folders may be retained as a result. For example, there is a method of retaining only scores whose score exceeds a preset threshold, and a method of retaining results within a range of a preset number or ratio.

In the above embodiment, the case where a new folder is not created at the time of collection has been described.
The present invention is not limited to this, but a new folder may be created and a new save destination creation unit that adds the folder to the save destination holding unit may be provided.

In the above embodiment, the case where the classification result held in the classification result holding unit is always held has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the saving process is not limited to this. A classification result deletion unit may be provided, such as deleting the document from the classification result or deleting the classification result corresponding to a specific folder when performed.

In the above embodiment, the case where the value of the function f is obtained for the documents stored in a plurality of folders in the folder search processing has been explained, but the present invention is not limited to this. Instead of one, the process of obtaining the value of the function f only once for one document may be performed. For example, there is a method of holding the value of the function f calculated once, or a method of calculating the value of f for a document and then propagating the value to the folder to which the document belongs and synthesizing the scores of the folders. is there.

In the above embodiment, the case where the value of the function f is obtained by pattern matching has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this, and an index is created for a document and the index is created. The value of the function f may be obtained using.

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As described above, according to the present invention,
Since a folder suitable as a storage destination of a new document can be presented to the user, the storage destination selection process of the user becomes easy.

Documents can be managed from the user's point of view.

Further, it becomes easy to select an appropriate folder when collecting or using documents.

Further, it is possible to cope with a change in the user's viewpoint of document holding.

Further, since the storage destination can be instructed only by the presented processing for changing the storage destination, the operation of instructing the storage destination becomes simple.

Further, since new folders are sequentially created, the process of creating a newly required folder is unnecessary, and the operability is improved.

Further, since the selection of a folder suitable for saving a new document is judged from the characteristics of the document already belonging to the folder and held, an appropriate judgment can be made.

Further, since a plurality of folders suitable as storage destinations to be notified to the user are prepared, there is a low risk that the folder desired by the user will not be selected.

Further, the folder can be confirmed accurately on the display.

Further, since the folders suitable for the search conditions are presented, the search processing can be performed efficiently.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a basic configuration example of a document processing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a functional specific configuration according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an outline of a storage candidate search process according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an outline of a saving process according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing an outline of a folder search process according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a basic configuration example according to the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing another basic configuration example according to the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing another basic configuration example according to the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a document classification process according to the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing another basic configuration example according to the present invention.

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[Claims] 1. A document holding unit for holding a folder and a document belonging to the folder, and a holding destination folder suitable for a new document are determined from the folders held in the document holding unit by analyzing the new document. A document processing apparatus, comprising: a storage destination determination unit; and a notification unit that notifies the storage destination folder determined by the storage destination determination unit. 2. A document holding unit for holding a folder and a document belonging to the folder, a new document holding unit for holding a new document, and a folder suitable as a storage destination of the document held by the new document holding unit are searched. Save candidate search means, save candidate output means for outputting the save destination candidates searched by the save candidate search means, and save destination selecting means for selecting the save destination of the new document held in the new document holding means And a saving processing unit that holds the document held in the new document holding unit in the document holding unit so that it belongs to the save destination folder selected by the save destination selecting unit. apparatus. 3. A document holding unit for holding a folder and a document belonging to the folder, a new document holding unit for holding a new document, and each folder suitable as a storage destination of the document held in the new document holding unit. A document classification unit that classifies new documents; a classification result output unit that outputs the results classified by the document classification unit; a storage destination modification unit that supports modification of the results classified by the document classification unit; A document processing apparatus comprising: a storage unit that stores the document stored in the document storage unit in the document storage unit so that the document belongs to the storage destination folder changed by the storage destination changing unit. 4. The document processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the storage destination changing unit instructs the change by deleting the classification result output by the classification result output unit. 5. The document processing apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising a folder creating unit that creates a new folder held in the document holding unit. 6. The document processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the folder includes information on a representative value of document characteristics of documents that belong to the folder and are held. 7. The document processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the representative value of the document features is an average value of the document features of documents that belong to and are held in the folder. 8. Comparing the document features of the new document with the representative values of the document features included in the folder, and determining that folders that are determined to be similar are suitable as the storage destination of the new document. The document processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein 9. The document processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein a plurality of folders suitable as storage destinations of the document are determined, and the classification is output for the plurality of determined folders. 10. The document processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the classification result output means is a display device. 11. A search condition holding unit for holding a search condition, a folder search unit for searching a folder held in the document holding unit according to a search condition held in the search condition holding unit, and the folder The document processing apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising a search result notification unit that notifies the folder searched by the search unit. 12. A document holding unit for holding a folder and a document belonging to the folder, a search condition holding unit for holding a search condition, and a document holding unit for holding the document according to the search condition held by the search condition holding unit. A document processing apparatus, comprising: a folder search unit that searches for a folder that is searched for; and a search result notification unit that notifies the folder searched by the folder search unit. 13. The document processing apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the folder search unit searches a folder holding a document that matches the held search condition. 14. The document processing apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the search condition is a character string. 15. The document processing apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the search result notifying unit notifies the name of the folder. 16. The document processing apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the search result notifying unit notifies the search results in descending order of matching score with the search condition. 17. A folder for holding a folder suitable for a new document is analyzed by using a document holding unit that holds a folder and a document belonging to the folder, and the folder held in the document holding unit is analyzed by analyzing the new document. A document processing method, characterized by making a determination and notifying the determined storage destination folder. 18. A document holding means for holding a folder and a document belonging to the folder is used, a new document is held, a folder suitable as a saving destination of the held document is searched, and the searched saving destination is A document characterized by outputting a candidate, selecting a storage destination of the retained new document, and retaining the retained document in the document retaining unit so as to belong to the selected storage destination folder. Processing method. 19. A new document is retained by using a document retaining unit that retains a folder and a document belonging to the folder, and the new document is classified for each folder suitable as a storage destination of the retained document. The modified result is output, the modification of the classified result is instructed, and the retained new document is retained in the document retaining unit so as to belong to the modified storage destination folder. Processing method. 20. A document holding unit that holds a folder and a document belonging to the folder is used to hold a search condition, and a folder held in the document holding unit is searched according to the held search condition, A document processing method, which notifies the searched folder.