JPS6054565A - Ducument processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To store a large quantity of documents unconsciously of the order of the documents or their upside-down condition, etc., by recognizing characters in a prescribed area of a displayed document as a page number and recording the document in order of the page number. CONSTITUTION:An image output read by an image reader 1 is displayed on a CRT2 in accordance with the control of a CPU5 and, at the same time, recorded on an optical disk 6 which is a recording medium through an RAM3. Under this conditon, the first document of a series of documents recorded on the optical disk 6 is displayed on the CRT2 and an area of the document where a page number is written is designated by an operator through a pointing device 4. Then the CPU5 recognizes the area as a character recognizing area and performs further document reading work by recognizing the character written in the area as the page number. When no character is recognized, the CPU5 interprets that the document is read under an upside-down condition and recognizes the page number by recognizing an area which is point-symmetrical to the area as the character recognizing area.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field] The present invention relates to a document processing device, and particularly to a document processing device that continuously reads documents and records them on a recording medium such as an optical disk or a magnetic disk.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, such a document processing device includes an image reading means such as an image league, a high-resolution bitmap CRT for displaying a document read by the image league, and further recording the read document on an optical disk or the like. A recording medium and a light pen, digitizer, etc. that can indicate the coordinates on the document CRT are provided, and the operator reads the document using the image league and transfers it to the CRT-J-
At the same time, the images were displayed on the screen and sequentially written to the optical disk.

In this case, if there are a large number of documents, the operator usually rearranges the documents to be recorded according to the page number -lIMi &, or if the documents are upside down, rearranges them and reads the documents on an optical disc etc. I had it memorized. Therefore, when storing such a large amount of documents, there is a drawback that the operator's negative 4B is extremely large.

[Purpose] Therefore, the present invention has been made in order to eliminate such conventional drawbacks, and provides a document in which a large amount of documents can be easily memorized without the operator being aware of the order of sentences 11X, etc. The purpose is to provide processing equipment.

[Example] The present invention will be described in detail below according to embodiments shown in the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows the hardware configuration of a document processing device that is an embodiment of the present invention.

In the same figure, the one indicated by numeral 1 is an image reader (IR).
), etc., where %2 is a high-resolution bitmamp CRT, and 3 is a RAM (random access memory), which is a volatile memory. Further, reference numeral 4 is a pointing device such as a light pen or a digitizer that can indicate the coordinate position on the CRTZ. The image output read by the image reader 1 is displayed on the CRT 2 under the control of the CPU (Central Processing Unit) 5.
The data is recorded on the optical disc 6, which is a recording medium, via the AM3.

In such a configuration, the optical disc 6 is
The first document of a series of documents to be recorded is read by the image reader 1, and the image information is read by the image reader 1 under the control of the CPU 5.
It is expanded to AM3 and displayed on high-resolution CRTZ. In the following step S2, the operator uses the pointing device 4 to indicate the area where the page number is written in the document displayed on the CRT. The CPU 5 recognizes this area as a character recognition area, and uses the characters in this area as a page number. In the following step S3, the CPU
Step 5 determines whether all documents to be recorded have been read. This determination is to determine that reading has ended if the document is not read by the image reader I for a certain period of time or more.

When the reading is completed, control moves to step $6, and when a new document is read, control moves to step S4. Step S4
Then, the CPU 5 inputs the bit information of the newly read document into R.
At the same time as AM3, the character in the character recognition area specified in step S2 is identified and set as the character page number.

If the character cannot be recognized here, it is interpreted that the document was read upside down, and as shown in Figure 3, the area symmetrical to the center of the document is used as the character recognition area and the page number is Recognize. The CPUs are A and A'
, B and B', and c and C', and set a new character recognition area. In the following step S5, the CPU 5
B1 on M3. When the page information is stored on the optical disc 6, a correspondence table of the simultaneous number, page number, and address of the stored optical disc is set in the RAM 3. Step 55
When the process is finished, the above-mentioned completion determination is made in step S3. If reading of all documents is completed and 1% is reached, the page numbers are rearranged in ascending order based on the above-mentioned correspondence table and stored in the management area of the optical disc in step S6.

By performing these steps, a large number of documents are read at random, rearranged in order of page numbers, and stored on the optical disk 6.

[Effect] As explained above, according to the present invention, a predetermined area of a document displayed on a display device such as a CRT is designated as a character recognition area, and characters within this area are recognized as page numbers. Since the documents can be recorded in the order of page numbers, the operator can memorize a large amount of documents without having to be aware of the order or upside down of the documents, reducing the burden on the operator and reducing the number of documents. It can be memorized over time.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the hardware configuration of a document processing device according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart explaining the operation, and FIG. It is an explanatory view showing the positional relationship of character recognition areas in a case where this is not the case. 1... Image reader 2... CRT3... RA
M 4... Pointing device 5... CPU 6... Optical disk

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) Comprising an image reading means, a display device for displaying a document read by the image reading means, a recording medium for recording the read document, and an indicating means for indicating a coordinate position on the display device. In the document processing device, a predetermined area of a document displayed on a display device is specified by the instruction means, characters in this area are recognized as page numbers, and the read documents are recorded on a recording medium in the order of page numbers. A document processing device characterized by: (2) The page number could not be recognized within the above area 11
2. The document processing device according to claim 1, wherein characters located in a point-symmetrical area with respect to the center point of the jf1 document are recognized as page numbers.