JPH1139118A - Document printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically match the format of a document at the time of printing a routine document or the like, to simplify manual matching work and to easily print the routine document or the like. SOLUTION: This document printer is constituted of a blocking means 10 of document data received from information equipment; a coordinate extraction means 11 of the blocked document data; a coordinate extraction means 8 of a ruled line and a frame from the format image of the document read by an image scanner 1 beforehand; an arrangement means 12 for arranging the blocked document data at the coordinate position of the format image; a comparison means 15 for comparing the document data with image data and obtaining a difference; a document editing means 14 for performing collating with an editing rule 17 based on the difference, for editing the font of the document data or the like are for performing matching to the image data; a bidirectional interface 18 for transferring the image of the result of performing the matching to the driver software of the information equipment; and an editing control means 16 for allowing the document editing means 14 to perform a re-processing based on correction information.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a printing system for a document printing apparatus that receives document data from an information device such as a personal computer or a computer and prints a fixed document or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Japanese Patent Publication No. 2-35345 discloses a reading means for reading image information of an original document in which a document format is recorded in advance, and a first storage means for storing image information output from the reading means. A display unit for displaying the image information stored in the first storage unit, a position designating unit for designating a position where a character is to be input on the image displayed on the display unit, and a position designated by the position designating unit. Input means for inputting character information, and a second means for storing character information input from the input means
A storage unit that combines the image information stored in the first storage unit with the character information stored in the second storage unit and prints the combined information on a recording sheet; There is described a document processing apparatus provided with means for positioning and printing on a recording sheet in which the same document format as the document is stored.

Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 1-176576 has a keyboard, an image reading device, a display device, and a printing device as input / output units, and further includes a CPU for controlling the input / output units and a storage unit. In a document editing and printing apparatus having a control unit and having a function of printing characters at designated positions on a fixed form paper on which a form is printed in advance, a form of the fixed form paper is read from an image reading device, and the read form is read. Means for displaying on the display device and designating a print position on a display screen, and converting the point data representing the character print position designated by the print position designating means into form data representing the print position on a fixed form paper. A document editing printing apparatus to which a conversion unit for conversion is added is described.

[0004]

In the prior art, in order to create a document having a fixed format, such as a fixed document, the format is read in advance as an image, and is displayed on a display device in accordance with the format. Documents had to be created and printed.

Accordingly, the present invention improves the drawbacks of the prior art, automatically adjusts the format of a document when printing a fixed document, etc., simplifies the manual alignment work, and reduces the size of a fixed document. The purpose is to facilitate printing.

[0006]

The present invention employs the following means to solve the above-mentioned problems.

(1) A means for blocking document data received from an information device, a means for determining a coordinate position of the blocked document data, and a ruled line and a frame from a format image of a document read in advance by an image scanner. Means for determining the coordinate position of the document, means for arranging the document data in a block at the coordinate position of the format image, means for comparing the document data and the image data to obtain a difference, and editing based on the difference Means for collating with the rules and editing the font, character spacing and line spacing of the document data to fit the image data, and transferring the image resulting from the matching to the driver software of the information device A bidirectional interface, from the driver software through the bidirectional interface Document printing and means for performing an editing operation based on the correction information document data that has been.

(2) An image memory for storing the image data, a document first memory for storing document data received from the information device, and a document memory for storing the image as a result of the matching. The document printing apparatus according to (1), further comprising a second memory.

(3) The document printing apparatus according to (1), wherein the control device controls the image scanner via a scanner controller and controls the printer via a printer controller.

[0010]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. The image scanner 1 has a function of reading a form image of an original, and the image data read under the control of the scanner controller 2 is transferred to a bus 6.
Is stored in the image memory 7. The stored image data is subjected to the processing shown in FIG.

FIG. 6 shows a process of determining a space in which a document block can be arranged in a form image with reference to the editing rule of FIG. 6A and 6B indicate the coordinate values of the space in which the document block can be arranged, and 6C is the space between the adjacent ruled line and the block space, which is determined by the form distance of the editing rule shown in FIG. 6D indicates that the end of the ruled line indicates the position of the end of the block space, and the values of the intervals of 6E, 6G, 6H, 6I, and 6J are determined by the editing rules. 6F indicates a theme.

When the processing of the coordinate extracting means 8 is completed, the image data is sent to the arranging means 12.

A bidirectional I / F (parallel, serial) from the driver software 19 of the external personal computer / computer equipment
The document information sent through 18 is stored in the first document memory 9 and processed by the blocking means 10. Blocking is performed on a document line by line as shown in FIGS. When further blocking is performed in a line, a plurality of blocks can be performed in one line by a specific character code. The blocked document information is sent to the coordinate extracting means 11 and processed.

As shown in FIG. 5, the coordinate extracting means 11
The coordinate values of the lower left origin 5A and the upper right 5B of each block are set as the origin (0, 0) of the lower left 5C of the document data, and the coordinate values of each block are extracted and sent to the arrangement means 12.
5D is a scale of coordinates.

The arranging means 12 arranges the origins of the image data block and the document data block at places where they can be arranged, based on the coordinate values of the image data and the block data of the document. The arranged image data and document data are sent to the comparison means 15 and
As shown in FIG. 7, a vertical difference 7D and a horizontal difference 7E between the image data area 7A and the document data area 7B.
Ask for.

Note that 7C is a relative movement amount between the areas of both data.

The document editing means 14 calculates, based on the two differences,
The editing is performed by collating with the editing rule 17 and editing the font type, character spacing, and line spacing of the document data to match the designated area of the image data. The edited data is stored in the second document memory 13.

The data stored in the second document memory 13 is sent as image information to driver software 19 of an external personal computer / computer through a bidirectional I / F 18 to ask the operator about the quality of the data.

If it is good, the control unit 3 receives an operator's instruction from the driver software 19 of the external personal computer / computer equipment through the bidirectional I / F 18. The control device 3 instructs the printer controller 4 to output the contents of the second document memory 13 to the printer 5.

If not, the operator's command and correction information are transferred to the driver software 1 of the external personal computer / computer equipment.
9 to the control device 3 and the editing control means 16 through the bidirectional I / F 18. The editing control unit 16 causes the document editing unit 14 to perform re-processing based on the correction information, and then causes the second memory 13 for the document to store it again.

FIG. 2 shows a processing flow of document printing in the above-described embodiment.

[0023]

As is apparent from the above description, the present invention has the following advantages. (1) Manual work is reduced. (2) A document can be created in advance. (3) No special keyboard or display device is required. (4) One document data can be printed in a form format of a different size. (5) The document image after the processing can be confirmed and corrected from a personal computer or a computer.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a processing flowchart of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 shows an example of document data printed according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 shows an example of blocked document data printed according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 shows an example of coordinate processing of document data printed according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 shows an example of a form coordinate processing to be printed according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 shows an example of a comparison process between image data and document data to be printed according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 shows an example of an editing rule according to the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Image scanner 2 Scanner controller 3 Control device 4 Printer controller 5 Printer 6 Bus 7 Image memory 8 Coordinate extraction means 9 Document first memory 10 Blocking means 11 Coordinate extraction means 12 Arrangement means 13 Document second memory 14 Document editing Means 15 Comparison means 16 Editing control means 17 Editing rules 18 Bidirectional I / F (interface) 19 Driver software for external personal computer / computer equipment

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A means for blocking document data received from an information device, a means for determining a coordinate position of the document data which has been blocked, and a method for forming ruled lines and frames from a format image of a document read in advance by an image scanner. Means for determining a coordinate position, means for arranging the block of document data at the coordinate position of the format image, means for comparing the document data and image data to determine a difference, and an editing rule based on the difference. Means for editing the font, character spacing and line spacing of the document data to fit the image data, and transferring the image resulting from the matching to the driver software of the information device. From the driver software through the bidirectional interface. Means for editing edited document data based on correction information. 2. An image memory for storing the image data, a document first memory for storing document data received from the information device, and a document memory for storing the image as a result of the matching. 2. The document printing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising two memories. 3. The document printing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control device controls the image scanner via a scanner controller and controls the printer via a printer controller.