JPH1011521A - Distribution slip sorting and issuing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily sort a chit by a delivery local area by retrieving an address code through the use of corresponding data on the toll telephone office number and the city telephone office number of telephone number data and issuing distribution slips in the ascending or descending order of the address code. SOLUTION: At the time of successively reading data written in an application slip by means of an image scanner 8, numeral written in a telephone number section are OCR-recognized to read telephone number data, the address code of five-digits by JIS prefecture and municipality code is retrieved through the use of read data and the address code is stored by coordinating with image data of each delivery destination section. Then data written in the application slip is read by the image scanner 8 to stored and accumulated in the memory of a terminal device 7 and at the time of issuing the delivery chit, each image data is first sorted in the ascending or descending order of the address code and then outputted to a printer 9 in the order of the sorted address codes to issue the distribution slips.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a system for sorting and issuing delivery slips by delivery area.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in order to issue a delivery slip based on an application form for a gift in a department store or the like, a customer fills in the required fields by hand in a requester field, a destination field, a product field, etc. of the application form. At the time of application, the store accepts the application in the order of application and reads the data written in the application form as image data with a scanner, copies the image data as it is to the delivery form, and issues the delivery form, or It is performed by any method of transferring the data entered in the application form to the delivery form by hand and issuing the delivery form. In any of the above cases, the delivery slips are issued in the order in which the application slips are received, so to sort the issued delivery slips by delivery area, look at the delivery address written on the delivery slip. It is done by hand.
Displaying the arrival code at the shipping company on the delivery slip is also performed by manually filling in the correspondence table between the area name and the arrival code.

[0003] However, the method of sorting the delivery slips by hand while looking at the destination address printed as described above, and manually entering the arrival code into the delivery slip while viewing the correspondence table between the area name and the arrival code. The disadvantage of this method is that it is time-consuming, time-consuming, extremely inefficient and error-prone.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to issue delivery slips in ascending or descending order of address codes, thereby facilitating sorting of delivery slips by delivery region and automatically setting a store arrival code. And a delivery slip issuing system capable of printing the delivery slip on a delivery slip.

[0005]

Means for Solving the Problems In a system for reading data written on an application form as image data and outputting it by a printer to issue a delivery slip, the data written on the application form is read as image data and stored in a memory. Step of converting the image data corresponding to the telephone number in the image data into telephone number data, and using at least the area code and the local area number data of the telephone number data. A step of retrieving the corresponding address code and storing it in association with the image data, a step of sorting the address code in ascending or descending order, and outputting the image data by a printer in the order of the sorted address code and transmitting the delivery slip. Delivery slip sorting and issuing system, characterized by comprising steps to be issued A. By using this system, delivery slips can be ordered in ascending or descending order by address code,
That is, since the delivery slips are issued continuously for each delivery area, the work of sorting the delivery slips by the delivery area is extremely simple and easy.

By adding a step of searching for a corresponding arrival code using the address code, when the image data is output by a printer and a delivery slip is issued, the arrival code is included in the delivery slip. Since the delivery slip sorting and issuing system described above is characterized by printing, it is not necessary to hand-write the arrival code while looking at the correspondence table, so that the entry operation of the arrival code can be extremely rationalized.

The delivery slip sorting / issuing system is characterized in that the accumulated image data is collectively output for a fixed period such as one day or half a day and output by a printer to issue a delivery slip. In this case, delivery slips for one day or half a day are collectively issued and easily sorted, which is extremely convenient.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 is a plan view showing an embodiment of an application form used in the present invention, FIG. 2 is a plan view showing an embodiment of a printed delivery slip, and FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an outline of a device to be used.
2 is the requester column, 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, 3e is the destination column, 4a, 4b, 4c, 4
d, 4e is a telephone number column, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e is a product column, 6 is a store code column, 7 is a terminal device, 8 is an image scanner, 9
Represents a printer.

As shown in FIG. 1, an embodiment of an application form used in the delivery form sorting and issuing system of the present invention is provided with an application form number column 1 at the right shoulder of the application form and a requester column 2 at the top.
However, at the bottom, destination columns 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, 3e are provided,
Commodity columns 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e are provided corresponding to each destination. The address, name, and telephone number of the client are entered in the client column 2, and the addressee columns 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d,
In 3e, the address, name, and telephone number of the destination are entered. The product codes 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, and 5e corresponding to the destination columns 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, and 3e respectively contain the product code and the product name of the product to be delivered. The data entered in the application form is read as image data, copied as it is, and a delivery form is issued, so that the item names, ruled lines, etc. are printed in dropout color. Also, the telephone number fields 4a, 4 for OCR reading
Entry frames are printed in b, 4c, 4d, and 4e using dropout colors. The entry of telephone numbers in the telephone number columns 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, 4e may be hyphenated or omitted.

The delivery slip issued by the delivery slip sorting and issuing system of the present invention includes the contents entered in the requester column 2 of the application slip shown in FIG. 1 and the delivery destination columns 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, 3e. The entered contents and the contents entered in the product columns 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e are read as image data, copied as they are, and a delivery slip is issued. The embodiment of the delivery slip shown in FIG. 2 corresponds to the destination column 3a of the application form shown in FIG. Is read as image data and copied as it is. In addition to the contents described in the application form, the arrival code searched based on the data of the area code and city code of the destination telephone number is printed in the arrival code column 6, so after issuing the delivery slip This eliminates the need to manually enter the store arrival code in the delivery slip, and the delivery slip can be issued very efficiently.

An apparatus used in the delivery slip sorting and issuing system of the present invention is schematically shown in FIG. 3, and includes a terminal device 7 for processing data, and a device for reading data written on an application form as image data. It comprises an image scanner 8 and a printer 9 for outputting read image data and issuing a delivery slip. The terminal device 7 has software for retrieving a 5-digit address code based on the JIS prefecture / city code based on the data of the area code and city code of the telephone number, and a store code from the address code. Equipped with software for searching.

A delivery slip sorting and issuing system according to the present invention will be described below. The application form used in this system is, for example, as shown in FIG. 1, and the customer fills in the application form and makes an application. The telephone number fields 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, and 4e on which the entry frames are printed in color are provided so that the numbers are particularly accurately entered. When the customer fills in the application form and completes the application, the store reads the data entered in the applied application form sequentially with the image scanner 8 and stores the read image data in the memory of the terminal device 7. Store and accumulate.

When sequentially reading the data entered in the application form with the image scanner 8, the telephone number fields 4a, 4b, 4c, 4
The numbers entered in d and 4e are read by OCR recognition to read the telephone number data, and using the data of the area code and the local area code in the read telephone number data, by the JIS prefecture / city code. A 5-digit address code is searched, and the address code is stored in association with the image data for each destination field. At this time, a corresponding arrival code is further searched using the address code, and the arrival code data is stored in association with the image data in the same manner as described above. The data of the area code and the local code in the telephone number data can be extracted, for example, by deleting the last four digits of the telephone number data. Searching for a five-digit address code using the data of the area code and the local code in the telephone number data can be performed using, for example, an NTT address code master "address in". Phone number fields 4a, 4b,
If the numbers entered in 4c, 4d, and 4e are not OCR-recognizable and the numbers are not entered, the numbers are entered manually by the terminal device 7 or are classified as indivisible into regions.

The data entered in the application form is read by the image scanner 8, and the read image data is stored and stored in the memory of the terminal device 7 together with the address code and the store arrival code obtained as described above. When the data is collected at regular intervals of half a day or one day, the data is output by a printer and a delivery slip is issued. When issuing a delivery slip, first sort each image data in ascending or descending order of address code,
The delivery code is output by the printer in the order of the sorted address codes and a delivery slip is issued. When issuing the delivery slip, the arrival code is simultaneously printed in the arrival code column 6 of the delivery slip. By doing so, the delivery slip on which the arrival code as shown in FIG. 2 is printed is issued in the order of the sorted address codes, that is, in the order of the delivery area, so that the sorting of the delivery slip by arrival can be performed. It can be done very easily in a short time. In addition, the trouble of writing the arrival code on the delivery slip by hand can be omitted.

In the delivery slip sorting and issuing system of the present invention, when a delivery slip is issued by the application slip shown in FIG.
The data of the area code and the local area code in the telephone number column 4a corresponding to the destination column 3a is 06341, so the corresponding address code is 27127, the address is Kita-ku, Osaka, and the telephone number corresponding to the destination column 3b. Since the data of the area code and the city code in the column 4b is 06451, the corresponding address code is 27127 and the address is Kita-ku, Osaka, and the area code and the city code in the telephone number column 4c corresponding to the destination column 3c. Since the internal number data is 06386, the corresponding address code is 27.
At 205, the address is Suita City, Osaka Prefecture, and the data of the area code and the local area code of the telephone number column 4d corresponding to the destination column 3d is 07.
2251, the corresponding address code is 272.
01, the address is Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, and the data of the area code and the local area code in the telephone number column 4e corresponding to the destination column 3e are 0720.
41, the corresponding address code is 27210.
The address is Kita-ku, Osaka. Therefore, the order in which the delivery slips are issued is, if the address codes are sorted in ascending order, 27127, 27127, 27201, 2720
5, 27210, so the destination column 3a, the destination column
The delivery slip is printed and issued in the order of 3b, destination field 3d, destination field 3c, and destination field 3e.

The data entered in the application form received by the store is read as image data and stored in a memory, and the image data stored at regular intervals such as one day or half a day is output by a printer and delivered to a delivery slip. Is issued, a large number of delivery slips are printed and issued in the order of the sorted address codes, so that the delivery slips are issued in the order of the delivery area. This eliminates the need for sorting the delivery slips. As for the sorted delivery slips, for example, when a product delivery source is determined for each delivery destination area, a delivery slip for the area is sent to each delivery destination, and the goods are sent from there. In the case of batch shipment of goods, a slip is attached to each delivery destination, sent to each agency location, and delivered to the customer therefrom.

[0017]

As described above, in a system in which data described in an application form is read as an image, the read data is output by a printer, and a delivery form is issued, the data entered in the application form is read as image data and stored in a memory. And converting the image data corresponding to the telephone number in the image data into telephone number data, using at least the data of the area code and the local area code in the telephone number data. A step of searching for an address code and storing it in association with image data, a step of sorting the searched address codes in ascending or descending order, and a step of outputting image data to a printer in the order of the sorted address codes and issuing a delivery slip. Using a delivery slip sorting and issuing system consisting of By adding a step to search for the corresponding arrival code, a delivery slip sorting and issuing system that prints the arrival code on the delivery slip when outputting the image data with a printer and issuing a delivery slip, Further, the image data stored in the memory of the terminal device is output every day or every half day to the printer, and the delivery slip is issued, so that the delivery slip is issued for each delivery area, that is, for each arrival code. As a result, it is possible to save labor for sorting delivery slips by delivery area. Further, by printing the store arrival code when issuing a delivery slip, it is possible to save the trouble of manually entering the store arrival code on the delivery slip.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing an embodiment of an application form used in the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view showing an embodiment of a printed delivery slip.

FIG. 3 is a diagram schematically showing an apparatus used in the system of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Application form number field 2 Requester field 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, 3e Recipient field 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, 4e Phone number field 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e Product field 6 Arrival code field 7 Terminal Equipment 8 Image scanner 9 Printer

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A system for reading data written in an application form as image data, outputting the image data with a printer, and issuing a delivery slip, in which the data written in the application form is read as image data and stored in a memory for storage. A step of converting image data corresponding to a telephone number in the image data into telephone number data; and an address code corresponding to at least the area code and the local area code in the telephone number data. Searching for and storing the image data in association with the image data, sorting the address codes in ascending or descending order, and outputting the image data to the sorted address code in a printer and issuing a delivery slip. And a delivery slip sorting and issuing system. 2. A method for adding a step of searching for a corresponding store code using the address code, so that the store code is delivered when the image data is output by a printer and a delivery slip is issued. 2. The delivery slip sorting and issuing system according to claim 1, wherein the delivery slip is printed on a slip. 3. The delivery slip sorting / issuing system according to claim 1, wherein the stored image data is collectively output at a certain period such as one day or half a day by a printer to issue a delivery slip. .