JPH11180096A - Sealing mail sealing machine and its method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance an operating efficiency by shortening a treating time of sealing a sealing mail. SOLUTION: The sealing mail sealing machine 1 comprises an optical unit 3 for optically scanning a describing surface of a mail to be sealed, a recognition unit 5 for recognizing a described content of the mail to be sealed based on a scanned image by the unit 3, a collating unit 6 for collating the content based on the recognized result by the unit 5, a controller 4 for deciding whether the collated result by the unit 6 is good or not, a branch unit 7 for branching the main to be sealed to two conveying directions according to the decision of acceptable or not of the controller 4, a main sealing unit 8 arranged at one side conveying direction position of the unit 7 to seal the main to be sealed, and a reject accumulator 10 arranged at the other side conveying direction position to discharge the mail to be sealed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an enclosing and sealing machine suitable for use when enclosing and sealing enclosing objects such as paper sheets, for which confirmation of the contents of a shipment is required, into enclosing enclosures such as a letter. And its method.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, when a large number of tickets such as advertisements, guidance documents, admission tickets, and special treatment tickets are mailed, enormous manpower is required for enclosing and sealing and address writing. An encapsulating and sealing machine has been developed and used.

Conventionally, this type of encapsulation and sealing machine uses an optical character reader (OCR) in a step of checking an encapsulation object after encapsulation, particularly to prevent erroneous encapsulation (November 1996). Nippon Kogyo Shimbun, dated 26th).

[0004]

However, this type of encapsulation and sealing machine does not have a function of automatically confirming the content of the encapsulated sealed object, so that the content of the encapsulated sealed object must be manually checked. Was done visually. As a result, when there are many descriptions of the content confirmation or when the number of documents to be confirmed is large, there is a problem that a long time is required for the work and the work efficiency is reduced.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and it is possible to automate the operation of confirming the contents of a sealed object, thereby improving the efficiency of the operation of the enclosing operation. The purpose is to provide a method.

[0006]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an enclosing and sealing machine according to the present invention, comprising: an optical unit for optically scanning the contents of an object to be encapsulated; A recognizing unit for recognizing the written content based on the scanned image, a collating unit for collating the written content based on the recognition result by the recognizing unit, a control unit for determining whether the collated result by the collating unit is good or not, A branching section for branching the sealed object in two transport directions by a pass / fail judgment by the section, and an enclosing sealing section for enclosing and sealing the sealed object at one side of the branch in the transport direction, and A reject accumulating unit for discharging the sealed object is disposed at a position in the side transport direction. Therefore, the content of the sealed object is collated by the collating unit based on the recognition result in the recognizing unit.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the enclosing / sealing machine according to the first aspect, the collation by the collating unit is performed by comparing the recognition result with setting data stored in advance. Therefore, the matching result in the matching unit is obtained by comparing the recognition result by the recognition unit with the setting data stored in advance.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the sealing and sealing machine according to the first aspect, the collation by the collating unit is performed by means including linguistic analysis and word collation from the recognition result. Therefore, the matching result in the matching unit can be obtained from the recognition result by the recognition unit by means including linguistic analysis and word matching.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided the enclosing and sealing machine according to the first, second or third aspect of the present invention, wherein the enclosing and sealing machine has a printing section for printing the content of the sealed object. Therefore, the description content is printed on the sealed object by the printing unit.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the enclosing and sealing machine according to any one of the first to fourth aspects, an operation terminal having a collating unit is connected to the control unit. Therefore, the description content of the sealed object is collated by the collating unit of the operation terminal based on the recognition result in the recognizing unit.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the sealing and sealing machine according to any one of the first to fourth aspects, an operation terminal having a recognition unit and a collation unit is connected to the control unit. Therefore, the description content of the sealed object is collated by the collating unit of the operation terminal based on the recognition result in the recognition unit of the operation terminal.

[0012] The invention according to claim 7 (enclosure method) is as follows.
Optically scan the contents of the sealed object, then recognize the contents from the scanned image, collate the contents based on the recognition result, and then determine whether the sealed object is good or not. After branching into two transport directions, if the collation result is good in one of the two transport directions, the sealed object is transported and sealed, and the collation result in the other transport direction. This is a method of discharging the sealed object when it is defective. Therefore, before enclosing and sealing the sealed object, the description content of the sealed object is checked by the checking unit based on the recognition result in the recognition unit.

According to an eighth aspect of the present invention, in the enclosing and sealing method according to the seventh aspect, after the collation result is transferred to the operation terminal connected to the enclosing and sealing machine according to any one of the first to sixth aspects, There is a method in which the operator determines whether or not the sealed object can be sealed from the transfer result. Accordingly, the operator determines whether or not the sealed object can be sealed based on the collation result transferred to the operation terminal.

According to a ninth aspect of the present invention, in the enclosing / sealing method according to the seventh aspect, after transmitting the collation result to the operation terminal connected to the enclosing / sealing machine according to any one of the first to sixth aspects, When the collation result is good, the enclosing / sealing machine determines whether or not the encapsulation / sealing of the enclosing / enclosed object is possible, and when the collation result is bad, the operator encloses the encapsulation / sealing part from the transfer result to the operation terminal. This is a method for determining whether or not sealing is possible. Therefore, if the collation result is good, the enclosing / sealing machine determines whether or not the encapsulated object is acceptable, while if the collation result is bad, the operator uses the collation result transferred to the operating terminal to determine whether or not the enclosed object is sealed. It is determined whether the object can be enclosed and sealed.

[0015]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described.
This will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an enclosing and sealing machine according to a first embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, an encapsulation and sealing machine denoted by reference numeral 1 includes a supply unit 2, an optical system (optical unit) 3, a control unit 4, a recognition unit 5, a collation unit 6, a branching unit 7, an encapsulation and sealing unit 8, and a sealed stacking unit 9. And a reject accumulating unit 10, which is connected to an operation terminal 11 such as a personal computer or a workstation.

The supply unit 2 is composed of, for example, a single supply unit, and takes out the stacked paper sheets one by one based on a command from the control unit 4 and conveys the sheets to the optical system 3. The supply unit 2 has been described as a single supply unit, but may be composed of a plurality of supply units (not shown). In this case, sheets of different types are deposited on each supply unit 2, and Each supply unit is switched when the paper sheet is transported.

The optical system 3 is composed of a single optical system, optically scans the written surface (one side) of the paper sheet, and transfers the scanned image to the recognition unit 5. Although the optical system 3 is described as an optical system that scans one side of a sheet, two optical systems (not shown) are prepared and arranged on both sides of the sheet when scanning both sides. .

The control section 4 transfers the collation result from the collation section 6 to the operation terminal 11. Thus, the instruction system differs depending on the operation mode to be described later, but when the collation result by the collation unit 6 is good (collation coincidence), the waiting sheets in the branch unit 7 are sent to the enclosing and sealing unit 8. Is instructed. On the other hand, when the collation result by the collation unit 6 is bad (collation mismatch), an instruction is given to convey the sheets waiting in the branching unit 7 to the reject accumulation unit 10.

After recognizing the scanned image from the optical system 3, the recognizing unit 5 executes character recognition of the written surface or image cutting for image matching. Here, character recognition is
In many cases, electronic data of the description contents remains, so that using these information enables highly accurate recognition.
If there is no known information, it is recognized by automatic analysis. On the other hand, the image matching is performed by cutting out a region to be collated with respect to objects other than characters.

The collating unit 6 checks the result of recognition by the recognizing unit 5. Here, the output (recognition) result by the recognizing unit 5 is a character code and its reliability in the case of a character, and an extracted area in the case of a character other than a character. Thereby, when the collation target is a character and the electronic data as the print information can be acquired, the code matching is performed. In this case, the collation result is a one-to-one correspondence between the character recognition result and each character code of the electronic data.

For example, in order to discriminate whether or not the corresponding character codes match, the character recognition result and the character code at the corresponding position in the electronic data are sequentially compared one by one from the front, and this comparison result is compared with each individual character. Store as a document collation result for characters. In the document comparison result, “0” indicates a match and “1” indicates a mismatch.

On the other hand, when electronic data cannot be obtained as setting data, language information is used. In this case, a part where the reliability of the character recognition result is low and a part which is linguistically questionable are extracted and distinguished from the other parts as a collation result. It is possible to limit the collation target to only necessary portions by designating a portion where the OCR for the form recognizes characters and providing information to the collation unit 6 in advance.

When the object to be verified is an image such as a table, a figure, or a photograph, image matching is performed. In this case, the degree of matching by the image matching is compared with a preset threshold value, and whether or not the value is larger than the threshold value is a matching result.

That is, in the image matching, a matching target area (when the target area is unknown, the entire area of the paper is the target area) using information on the image printing status on the paper, and then optically After the image of the target area is cut out from the scanned image, the cut-out image and the print image of the electronic data are developed on a memory and the target area is extracted and superimposed.

Here, since the image obtained by the monochrome printer is a binary image, image matching is performed on the binary image. The determination as to whether or not the cut-out image matches the target area is performed based on whether or not the matching degree (the ratio of the number of matched pixels to the entire pixels) exceeds a preset threshold value (eg, 95%). . In the case of a multi-valued image, image matching is performed on the multi-valued image, and the matching degree is obtained by integrating the absolute value of the density of each pixel or calculating the inner product value. .

The image scanned by the optical system 3 is:
Since it does not completely match the original data during the mechanical operation during printing and scanning or optical analog conversion and error quantization, it is effective to perform processing such as alignment, size adjustment, and density adjustment. Collation becomes possible.

The positioning is performed by moving a part of the target image and superimposing it on another image to measure the amount of deviation from the position of the best match, or by moving one of the target images as a whole. However, there is a method in which another image is superimposed and the value that matches the most is used as the matching degree.

In order to adjust the size, there is a method of directly measuring the size. The most effective method is to measure the degree of distortion of each device using a test chart or the like, and scan the scanned image with the size. There is a way to do this.

There is a method of adjusting the density by normalizing the density so that the maximum value, the minimum value, and the average value in the image match (in the case of a binary image, the number of black pixels matches). Although the accuracy of such image matching is lower than that of the character recognition described above, it is possible to reduce the task of visual confirmation when both images do not match.

The branching section 7 is provided between the optical system 3 and the sealing section 8. As a result, the instruction is received from the control unit 4, and the sheet is branched in two transport directions depending on whether the collation result by the collation unit 6 is good or not. The distance between the branch portion 7 and the optical system 3 is set to a size sufficient to hold the maximum number of paper sheets. For example, in a case where three sheets are simultaneously enclosed and sealed, these three sheets are arranged in the transport direction between the branching unit 7 and the optical system 3.

The enclosing / sealing unit 8 encloses and seals the sent (conveyed) paper sheet (enclosed / sealed object) in a predetermined envelope (enclosed / sealed object). A large number of envelopes are stored in the sealing section 8. The envelopes in the enclosing / sealing section 8 include envelopes with windows and envelopes without windows, and these envelopes are appropriately selected. In the case of an envelope with a window, the address is already written on the paper sheet. In the case of a windowless envelope, address writing is performed by an address printing unit that directly prints, or by printing with a label printer and attaching a label.

The sealed stacking section 9 accumulates the sealed articles (sealed letters) that have been completely sealed. That is, when it is determined that the description content of the sealed object and the collation result by the collating unit 6 match, the sealed letter after the sealing of the sealed object is accumulated. The reject accumulating unit 10 accumulates the sealed objects when the description content of the sealed objects does not match the collation result by the collating unit 6.

In such a sealing machine, the supply unit 2
An OCR technology for forms is used for the mechanism from the optical system 3 to the enclosing / sealing unit 8 or the reject accumulating unit 10 via the branching unit 7.

The recognizing unit 5 can also be realized by a form OCR recognizing mechanism. The collating unit 6 and the control unit 4 are provided with a central processing unit which operates a predetermined program, and a memory (not shown) in which programs and data are registered, and an I / F (for example, RS
232C) or an I / F circuit (for example, SCSI) with the operation terminal 11.

Further, a mechanism (including an address writing mechanism) from the enclosing / sealing section 8 to the sealed letter accumulation section 9 has already been put to practical use as a product.

A description will be given of the operation of confirming the contents of the paper sheet in the thus-configured enclosing and sealing machine. Considering the content confirmation of the paper sheet in the present embodiment, the print character and the H
For tables that can be expressed in TML format, see OC
This is performed by reading a printed material with R and comparing the read result with electronic data before printing.

As a result, the following problems (1) to (5)
(3) is eliminated. That is, (1) damage caused by paper before printing, such as breakage, distortion, or breakage of paper; (2) printing failure due to skew conveyance or breakage of paper in the printing mechanism; printhead failure, toner, ink, ribbon, etc. Items caused by printing, such as printing failures due to wear and tear, transfer failure of printing data to the printing unit, and printing failures due to malfunctions in the printing unit. This is because the order is changed for some reason while the paper is supplied to the machine.

A plurality of operations of the present enclosing and sealing machine are assumed, and the operation modes include a "batch mode", an "all-confirmation mode", and an "unverified confirmation mode".

The "batch mode" is an operation mode in which automatic operation is basically possible. In this case, the control unit 4 obtains the collation result by the collation unit 6, and if the collation result is good, controls the branching unit 7 to send the paper sheets to the enclosing and sealing unit 8 to enclose and seal. If the collation result is bad, the branching unit 7 is similarly controlled, and the sheets are sent to the reject stacking unit 10 and stacked.

The collation result is transferred to the operation terminal 11, but the operation terminal 11 does not control whether or not the sheets are sealed. In the “batch mode”, the determination of the match between the collation result in the electronic data and the description content is based on the condition that the character recognition result matches all the character codes for the characters in the electronic data. Regarding character confirmation, in particular, in the case of printing with a laser printer-level high image quality and a fixed font, a recognition rate of 99.99% or more can be realized, and in most cases automation can be achieved.

In image matching, as described above,
The threshold value of the collation degree is a criterion. In character recognition without electronic data, comparison between reliability of each character in character recognition and a preset threshold value and detection of linguistic inconsistency by using linguistic information or word information are criteria.

In the “all check mode”, all check results are stored in the operation terminal 1 regardless of the check result by the check unit 6.
Transfer to 1. Judgment as to whether to enclose and seal paper sheets,
All are decided by the operator. At this time, by displaying on the operation terminal 11 an image of the entire paper surface scanned by the optical system 3 or an individual image used for recognition by the recognition unit 5 and an image on the operation terminal 11, the operator can confirm the contents. I do. Here, by highlighting, on the operation terminal device 11, a portion that the operator should pay attention to in accordance with the collation result, the burden on the operator can be reduced.

The operation after the command as to whether or not the sheets are to be enclosed and sealed is transmitted from the operation terminal 11 to the control section 4 is the same as the operation in the "batch mode". In the “batch mode”, it is necessary to visually check the sheets stacked in the reject stacking unit 10 after stacking, but in this mode, processing after stacking is not necessary. This is convenient when it is desired to make the contents confirmation work or the sealing and sealing procedure a predetermined procedure.

The "unchecked confirmation mode" is a mode positioned between the "batch mode" and the "all confirmation mode". If it is determined in the collation result by the collation unit 6 that sealing and sealing are possible, an operation similar to the “batch mode” is performed. Otherwise, an operation similar to the “all confirmation mode” is performed. Therefore, the burden on the operator can be reduced as compared with the “all check mode”.

Next, the operation of the "batch mode" among these modes will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating the operation in the batch mode. First, paper sheets are deposited on the supply unit 2 (step S101). Next, processing start is instructed from the operation terminal 11 (step S102). At this time, the first encapsulation information is transferred to the control unit 4. As the enclosing information, the number of enclosing sheets, the presence / absence of destination printing, the destination information, the necessity of collating each enclosed paper, the presence / absence of electronic data, the type of electronic data, the printing layout, and the contents of the electronic data are transferred.

FIG. 3 shows an example of the data format of the main enclosing information, in which the enclosing number is three. The file size 121 indicates the size of this data format which is variable. The number of sheets 122 to be enclosed is the number of sheets to be enclosed in the first pass, and means the number of sheets fed from the supply unit 2.

This embodiment is an example of single-sided printing (three sheets). In the case of double-sided printing, the number of printing surfaces is designated by a negative number. That is, when three sheets of double-sided printing are enclosed, the value is designated as “−6”. If both single-sided printing and double-sided printing are mixed, they are all treated as double-sided printing. If collation is not necessary, “no collation” is specified for the corresponding position (reference numerals 125, 127, and 129) described later.

The presence / absence of address printing 123 is based on whether or not the address is printed on the sealed side, and it is distinguished whether the envelope to be used is an envelope with a window or an envelope without a window. The presence / absence of address printing 123 is the same as the format 125 of the first sheet, and also indicates information on the address information format. For example, "0" indicates "no address printing", "1" indicates "address printing" and the information is in text format, and "2" is HTML format. The storage location 124 of the address information is address information 1 for address printing.
34 is a pointer where the beginning of the file is the origin.

In the figure (reference numerals 125 to 130), information for three sheets is stored in pairs. How many pieces of information are stored is determined by the number of enclosed sheets 122 (in the case of both sides, the number of absolute values is used). The first half (reference numerals 125, 127, and 129) of the set is a data format, and the contents are unified with the presence / absence of address printing 123. However,
"0" means meaning that collation is unnecessary, and "-1" can be assigned for automatic character analysis without correct data.
The latter half of the set (symbols 126, 128, 130) has the same meaning as the storage location 124 of the address information at the storage locations of the respective entities (references 131 to 133).

The content of the data described in each sheet is stored in the N-th data (reference numerals 131 to 133) and is electronic data to be collated by the collation unit 6.
For example, if it is a text format, the character code information is HTM
In the case of the L format, the image information and the character information and the information of the layout are further included in the character font, the character size,
Detailed information such as a table can also be stored. Address information 134
Is address information to be printed on the front face of the sealed letter, and has a predetermined fixed format in which, for example, a control code (a character pitch, a line feed pitch setting, and a tab setting) of an address printing unit is added to a text format.

When the enclosed information is transferred to the control unit 4, one sheet of paper to be deposited is taken out, and when passing through the optical system 3, the paper is scanned and an image is taken in. After this, the paper sheets wait just before the branching section 7 (step S103). Here, when a plurality of paper sheets are simultaneously enclosed, the required number of sheets are sequentially taken out from the supply unit 2 based on the insertion information, passed under the optical system 3, and the paper surface is sequentially read, and the upstream side of the branching unit 7 is read. Wait on the side.

The recognition unit 5 performs character recognition or cutout of the image captured. This recognition result is transferred to the collating unit 6 and compared with the enclosing information (step S104). Here, in the comparison operation control, the enclosed data format (125, 127, 129 in FIG. 3) is used as the enclosed information, and the encapsulated data (131 to 133 in FIG. 3) is used in the actual comparison.
Is used. Thereafter, the comparison result is transferred to the operation terminal 11 (step S105).

In the "batch mode", the control unit 4 determines whether or not the sheet is to be sealed and sealed based on the comparison result (collation result) by the collation unit 6 (step S10).
6). Here, the determination of the enclosing and sealing is automatically performed, and the determination criteria are set as follows, for example.
That is, when the content of the description is a character code and there is electronic data, all the character codes match, and sealing and sealing are performed. If the written content is a character code and there is no corresponding electronic data, the enclosing and sealing is performed when the reliability of the characters is all greater than a preset threshold value and there is no linguistic inconsistency in the linguistic information. . In addition, for the image, when the collation degree exceeds a predetermined threshold, enclosing and sealing are performed.

Thereafter, when the control section 4 determines that the sheet is sealed, the sheet is conveyed to the sealing section 8 and sealed (step S107). On the other hand, when it is determined that the sealing is not performed, the paper sheet is transported to the reject accumulation unit 10 (step S108).

When step S107 or step S108 is completed, the presence or absence of a sheet in the supply unit 2 is confirmed. If the sheet is present, the enclosing information of the next sheet is received from the operation terminal 11 (step S107). S109) Thereafter, the same operation is repeated. In step S109, when there is no sheet in the supply unit 2, one kind of processing ends. Thus, the “batch mode” can be operated.

Next, the operation in the "all confirmation mode" will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 4 is a flowchart shown to explain the full confirmation mode operation. In the figure,
The first half of the "all check mode" (steps S201 to S204) is the same as the first half of the "batch mode" (steps S101 to S104). In this mode, since the judgment of the enclosing and sealing is performed manually, the recognition result and the reference image are transferred to the operation terminal device 11.

Here, the reference image refers to an individual character image used for character recognition or image cutout in the recognition section 5 or an image of the entire sheet and an individual cutout position in the recognition section 5. Is used by the operator as a material for determining the content. When the control unit 4 receives the reference image from the recognition unit 5, the reference image is transferred to the operation terminal 11 together with the result of the comparison by the comparison unit 6 (step S205).

When the reference image is transferred to the operation terminal 11, the paper sheet is finally obtained by referring to the image and the recognition result received from the enclosing / sealing machine 1 on the screen of the operation terminal 11 or using a printer. Judge whether or not to enclose and seal. At this time, for example, a place with low reliability in the recognition unit 5, a place where the character reading result does not match the electronic data, and a corresponding image position are highlighted. Thereby, good operability is obtained.

Then, when the operator makes an input by key input or an input means such as a mouse, the result of the determination as to the presence / absence of sealing is transmitted from the operation terminal 11 to the control unit 4. The control unit 4 receives this determination result (step S206).
Then, the same operation as the batch mode (steps S106 to S109) shown in FIG. 2 is performed (steps S207 to S210) under the control of the control unit 4. In this way,
The “all confirmation mode” can be operated.

Next, the operation in the "unverified confirmation mode" will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 5 is a flowchart shown to explain the full confirmation mode operation. In the figure, the “all check mode” is a combination mode of the “batch mode” and the “unmatched check mode”, and the process is switched in step S305.

That is, the control unit 4 determines whether the collation result is good or not (whether or not sealing is possible) (step S30).
5). If the collation result is good, the same operation as in the batch mode (steps S105 to S109) shown in FIG. 2 is performed (steps S306 and S30).
9-312). On the other hand, if the verification result is bad,
All confirmation mode shown in FIG. 4 (steps S205 to S210)
The same operation as described above is performed (steps S307 to S31).
2). In this manner, the “unverified confirmation mode” can be operated.

In FIG. 5 (unverified confirmation mode), the mode switching between the batch mode operation and the full confirmation mode operation is not performed for each sheet, and therefore, there is no sheet in the supply unit 2. At this point, the operation mode is designated from the operation terminal 11 to the control unit 4.

Therefore, in this embodiment, the contents of the paper sheet are automatically checked, so that the processing time for enclosing and sealing can be shortened.

In this embodiment, a case has been described in which the recognition unit 5 of the enclosing and sealing machine 1 recognizes the contents described, and the collating unit 6 of the enclosing and sealing machine 1 also verifies the contents of the paper sheets. However, the present invention is not limited to this, as shown in FIG. 6 as a second embodiment, in which the collating unit 6a of the operation terminal 11 collates the described contents, and as a third embodiment, as shown in FIG. The recognizing unit 5b of the operation terminal 11 may recognize the content described, and the collation unit 6 of the operation terminal 11 may collate the content described.

In FIG. 6 (FIGS. 6 and 7), the enclosing / sealing machine 1 and the operation terminal 11 are connected by a plurality of wires to clarify the flow of information. Commonized by F.

In this case, the operation of enclosing and sealing paper sheets is the same as the operation of enclosing and sealing paper sheets in the first embodiment. Therefore, in the second embodiment and the third embodiment, as in the first embodiment, the content of the paper sheet is automatically checked, so that the processing time for enclosing and sealing can be reduced. In each of these embodiments,
Since the collating unit (recognition unit) of the enclosing and sealing machine 1 can be reduced, the amount of H / W can be reduced, and the cost of the device can be reduced.
The size can be reduced.

In addition, in the above-described first embodiment, the case where the enclosing and sealing machine has no printing section is shown. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and as shown in FIG. May have a printing unit 51.
In FIG. 1, a printing unit 51 includes, for example, a one-sided printer, a two-sided printer, or a color printer, and is connected to the operation terminal 11. Thereby, the operation terminal 11
Immediately before the control unit 4 sends the enclosing information shown in FIG. 3 to the control unit 4 (for example, steps S101 and S109 shown in FIG. 2), the printing data (reference numerals 131 to 1 shown in FIG.
33) is sent to the printing unit 51, and the contents described on the paper sheet are printed. The paper feeding unit 52 is provided on the optical system side of the printing unit 51. As a result, the discharge of the paper sheet from the printing unit 51 is detected, and the detected paper sheet is conveyed to the optical system 3 to perform the enclosing operation.

The operation of enclosing and sealing paper sheets in such an enclosing and sealing machine is the same as the operation of enclosing and sealing paper sheets in the first embodiment. Therefore, in the present embodiment (fourth embodiment), the content of the paper sheet is automatically confirmed, so that the processing time for enclosing and sealing can be reduced, as in the first embodiment. In addition, in the present embodiment, by incorporating the printing unit 51 in the enclosing and sealing machine 1, not only the enclosing and sealing process but also the printing process for paper sheets can be automatically performed.

[0069]

As described above, according to the present invention, there is provided an optical unit for optically scanning the content of a sealed object, and a recognition unit for recognizing the content of the content based on a scanned image by the optical unit. A collating unit for collating the description based on the result of recognition by the recognizing unit, a control unit for judging the quality of the collation result by this collating unit, and A reject stack for disposing an enclosing-sealing portion for enclosing and enclosing the sealed object at one side of the branch portion in the conveying direction, and discharging the enclosing-sealed object at the side of the other side in the conveying direction. Since the unit is provided, the description content of the sealed object is collated by the collating unit based on the recognition result in the recognizing unit. Therefore, since the contents of the sealed contents are automatically checked,
The processing time for enclosing and sealing can be shortened, and the working efficiency of enclosing and sealing can be increased.

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, since there is a printing section for printing the contents of the sealed object, the contents of the sealed object are printed by the printing section. Therefore, not only the enclosing and sealing process but also the printing process for the sealed object can be automatically performed, so that the confidentiality can be enhanced and the enclosing / sealing mistake due to the supply of the sealed object can be avoided. .

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an enclosing and sealing machine according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart shown to explain a batch mode operation.

FIG. 3 is a view showing filling information for a filling / sealing machine;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart shown to explain a full confirmation mode operation;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining an uncollated confirmation mode operation;

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing an enclosing and sealing machine according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing a sealing machine according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram showing an enclosing and sealing machine according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Enclosure-sealing machine 2 Supply part 3 Optical part 4 Control part 5 Recognition part 6 Collation part 7 Branch part 8 Enclosure-sealing part 9 Sealing accumulation part 10 Reject accumulation part 11 Operation terminal

Claims (9)

[Claims] 1. An optical unit for optically scanning the contents of a sealed object to be enclosed, a recognition unit for recognizing the contents described based on a scanned image by the optical unit, and A collating unit for collating the above described contents; a control unit for judging the quality of the collation result by the collating unit; and a branching unit for branching the sealed object in two transport directions according to the quality judgment by the control unit. An enclosing and sealing section for enclosing and enclosing the encapsulated sealed object is provided at one side of the branching section in the conveying direction, and a reject stacking section for discharging the enclosing sealed object is arranged at the other side of the branching section in the conveying direction. A sealing and sealing machine characterized by the following. 2. The enclosing and sealing machine according to claim 1, wherein the collation by the collating unit is performed by comparing the recognition result with setting data stored in advance. 3. The enclosing and sealing machine according to claim 1, wherein the collation by the collating unit is performed by means including linguistic analysis and word collation from the recognition result. 4. A printing section for printing the content of the sealed object to be sealed.
The encapsulation and sealing machine as described. 5. The enclosing and sealing machine according to claim 1, wherein an operation terminal having the collating unit is connected to the control unit. 6. The enclosing and sealing machine according to claim 1, wherein an operation terminal having the recognition unit and the collation unit is connected to the control unit. 7. The content of the sealed object is optically scanned, the content is recognized from the scanned image, and the content is collated based on the recognition result. Depending on the quality, the encapsulated sealed object is branched into two transport directions, and if the collation result is good in one of the two transport directions, the encapsulated sealed object is transported and sealed. And a method of discharging the sealed object when the collation result is defective in the other transport direction. 8. After the verification result is transferred to an operation terminal connected to the enclosing and sealing machine according to any one of claims 1 to 6, the enclosing and sealing of the sealed object is performed by an operator based on the transfer result. 8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the determination is made as to whether or not the sealing is possible. 9. After transferring the collation result to an operation terminal connected to the enclosing and sealing machine according to any one of claims 1 to 6, if the collation result is good, the enclosing and sealing machine performs the operation. Judge the encapsulation of the sealed object,
8. The method according to claim 7, wherein if the collation result is bad, the operator determines whether or not the sealed object can be sealed based on the transfer result to the operation terminal.