KR101523230B1 - Automatic transmitting method of eletronic documents - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method of automatically transmitting an electronic document, comprising the steps of: creating an electronic document by a user; Designating any one of a homepage, a mobile app or a server to which the electronic document is to be transmitted; Automatically documenting the electronic document using a document creation command; Automatically transferring an image documented electronic document to any one selected from among a selected homepage, a mobile app or a server; And receiving the file by accessing any one of the selected homepage, the mobile application, and the server, thereby allowing the electronic document to remain intact or image at the same time as a specific command such as a document creation command of the electronic document, It is possible to independently transmit the image of the electronic document to the mobile application, the server, etc. without involvement of the third party or other organizations, thereby eliminating the waste of paper due to the physical output, and has excellent security.

Description

{Automatic transmission method of eletronic documents}

The present invention can transmit an image of an electronic document to a specific homepage, a server, a mobile application (Application) without any intervention by a third party or another institution by simultaneously or simultaneously imaging the electronic document at the same time as a specific command such as a document generation command of the electronic document The present invention relates to a method for automatically transmitting an electronic document.

A general electronic document printing technique is performed by a document generation command installed in a general purpose document creator such as Hangul, MS Word, MS Excel, a graphics program such as Photoshop or Internet Explorer. In addition, even if the document creation command is omitted, a desired document must be created using a print signal, and then a file corresponding to the document should be created. The generated file is sent to the printer and then sent to the facsimile, or the generated file is sent to the e-mail attachment, or the file is sent to the home page in the form of an attachment, resulting in inconvenience of use and vulnerable document security .
Korean Patent Laid-Open No. 2009-267 (published on January 17, 2009, entitled " invention of an electronic document transmission method and system ") is disclosed as a prior art related thereto.

An object of the present invention created to solve the above problems is to provide an electronic document management system capable of directly transmitting an electronic document to a home page, a server, a mobile app, etc., And an automatic transmission method of the electronic document.

An object of the present invention is to provide a method and system for creating and delivering an electronic document, comprising: creating an electronic document by a user; Designating any one of a homepage, a mobile app or a server to which the electronic document is to be transmitted; Automatically documenting the electronic document using a document creation command; Automatically transferring an image documented electronic document to any one selected from among a selected homepage, a mobile app or a server; And receiving the file by accessing any one of the selected homepage, the mobile app, and the server, and receiving the file.

Preferably, the present invention extracts a character string from the image document, and automatically converts the electronic document into any one of the selected homepage, the mobile web, or the server using a character string that can identify a user among the extracted character strings. And automatically assigning a file name to the electronic document.

Preferably, the present invention further comprises the steps of: extracting a character string included in the electronic document and attaching it to the image document; encrypting and transmitting the encrypted image document to secure the image document; And restoring the document.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a method of creating and delivering an electronic document, comprising: creating an electronic document by a user; Designating any one of a homepage, a mobile app or a server to which the electronic document is to be transmitted; Generating an electronic document file by using a document creation command for the electronic document; Automatically generating a file name capable of identifying a user in the electronic document; Automatically transferring the electronic document file to any one of the selected homepage, the mobile app, or the server; The electronic document file is automatically converted into an image file in any one of the homepage, the mobile app, and the server selected; And receiving the image electronic document by accessing any one selected from among the selected homepage, the mobile app, and the server, and receiving the image electronic document.

It is still another object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for creating and delivering an electronic document, comprising: creating an electronic document by a user; Designating any one of a homepage, a mobile app or a server to which the electronic document is to be transmitted; Generating an electronic document file by using a document creation command for the electronic document; Separating and automatically extracting an image portion and a character string from the electronic document file; Automatically generating a file name that can identify a user in the electronic document file in which the image portion and the character string are distinguished; Automatically transferring the image portion of the extracted electronic document file or the character string to any selected one of the selected homepage, the mobile web, or the server; The selected homepage, the mobile app or And receiving the electronic document file and restoring the electronic document using the image or the character string by accessing any one of arbitrary selected ones of the servers.

As described above, according to the present invention, an electronic document can be left intact or imaged at the same time as a specific command such as a document creation command of an electronic document, and the image of the electronic document can be transferred to a specific homepage, a mobile app, The waste of paper due to the physical output can be eliminated, and the security is excellent.

In addition, in the conventional electronic document delivery method, it is essential that the user must manually designate the file name of the electronic document in order to distinguish the document, which is an indispensable element at that stage. By automating these steps, you can automate the steps necessary to automate this entire manual process by automating the steps required to identify those documents in the document or to identify the sender or recipient.

Fig. 1 is a screen showing a state in which a printer conversion module according to the present invention is additionally installed.
2 is a screen showing a state in which a data viewer according to the present invention is installed.
3 is a view showing an image for converting the first page of the specification according to an embodiment of the present invention into an image file using the printer conversion module and transmitting the image file.
FIG. 4 is a view showing a character string attached to FIG. 3 using a data viewer using a data viewer of the present invention.
5 is a screen for manually inputting a file name to transmit the image file of FIG.
6 to 8 are block diagrams showing an automatic transmission method of an electronic document according to embodiments of the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 to 8. FIG.

First, it is disclosed beforehand that the specific electronic medium described below means any one selected from a homepage, a mobile application (application), and a server.

  In addition, since the result of the present invention is not a document composed of paper but instead transmits an image document file, it is referred to as a document creation command instead of a print command.

The process of printing is printed by a document program such as Hangul or MS Office, an OS such as a window, and a printer driver.

Printing can be executed only when at least one printer driver is installed in the terminal. If the printer driver is not installed, the document creation command itself will not be executed.

When the document creation command is executed in the document program, the actual print start firstly calls the startdoc function to inform the start of the printer print, and the enddoc function is called at the end of the print to finish printing. This cycle is called a job.

In this big category, the processes that occur in one job are as follows. After startdoc is started, if a signal is given to print in the document program, the printer driver's DC (Device contexst) function is called to start the printer. At this time, the printer driver converts the print signal given by the document program into a signal known to the printer and prints the print signal. In cooperation with the GDI (Graphic Device Interface) of the OS (Operating System) for actual printing, they are interchanged with the printer driver to exchange data and printing is performed. In this process, when the startpage signal is given, it notifies the start of printing, and various functions are exchanged between the document program and the GDI, which exchanges data with the printer driver. This data is stored in a spooler consisting of several files. This spooler is a step that performs the function to store the time that the printer generates the prints until the printer recognizes it because the time recognized by the printer is much faster than the actual printing time. The file named Winspool.drv becomes the main file. In this way, when the data is transferred from the spooler to the printer, printing occurs.

After one page is printed, the next page is repeated, and the enddoc function is called at the end. These concepts are not sequential events but one event concept. Each event exchanges data regardless of order.

In order to implement the automatic document delivery system, the printer driver installed in the terminal is first monitored in the above process, and when the startdoc occurs, the printer driver installed in the actual terminal is blocked, and the printer driver, which is designed for the automatic document delivery system, The printing process described above is performed through the printer conversion module, and the document is left as it is or imageized, and the data is attached to the document, attached to the target homepage or e-mail, and transmitted together with the document creation command to the desired destination.

Here, in the case where the document is transmitted as it is, the document should be imaged on the home page or the e-mail (specific electronic medium) on which the document is received. This is just a programming technique.

Virtual printers that image printing documents have already been developed, and e-mail transmission, POP3, and IMAP methods have become commonplace everyday.

Another method is to use a pre-installed printer driver to detect the startpage signal and to block the data sent to the actual printer. The data sent from the spooler to the printer are left intact or imaged, You can automatically deliver documents using email. In order to implement such a series of processes, an automatic document delivery system can be independently developed using a self-developed printer driver together with the printer conversion module.

The method of delivering the document to the homepage in the process of delivering the document includes a communication protocol such as HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, hypertext transfer protocol, transmission and reception of text, graphic image, sound, video, HTTP protocol (Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Sockets Layer (HTTPS) or Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTPS)), which is a transport protocol with the HTTP daemon of the Web server that handles the request, A Netscape Web protocol installed in a browser that encrypts and decrypts user page requests in the SSL sublayer below the protocol (HTTP) layer. TCP / IP uses port 443 instead of HTTP port 80, and SSL uses RC4 stream encryption algorithm If you use a 40-bit key size and you specify a page with an https: // URL in a Netscape browser, TTPS encrypts it, the incoming https: // URL is decrypted in the HTTPS sublayer, HTTPS and SSL support the use of X.509 digital certificates from the server for user sender authentication) or FTP (File Transfer Protocol; It is an Internet standard protocol for transferring files between computers. It uses an FTP client to connect to the other computer, send and receive files, etc.) or upload or download using FTP (File Transfer Protocol over SSL) You can also encrypt it.

The transmitting terminal may include a corresponding program for receiving and storing the document and managing the computer. With this program, the decryption module decrypts the encrypted document downloaded from the homepage connected through the Internet. The application of the decryption module may be restricted in a condition that the decryption of the document downloaded from the homepage is not necessary.

In the present invention, a means or a program for generating, transmitting, and managing a document may be further included.

The present invention having such a system explains a method for delivering a document using a printer conversion module together with a home page, a server e-mail, and the like.

First, when a document is created and a document creation command is executed in the transmitting terminal, the printer conversion module or the newly invented printer for document delivery extracts data relating to the document from the inputted document creating program and transmits the data to the image converting apparatus , The extension of the document file is converted into a picture file such as JPG or BMP, and a file name is generated. The data can then be attached to a picture file so that it can be used as needed. At this time, data can be encrypted to protect it. The file name may be automatically assigned or manually entered as an identifiable string or a numerical string among the strings of the corresponding data for identification of the document.

The generated document file is primarily stored in the transmitting terminal. Then, after the document is encrypted on the homepage designated as the communication protocol for transmitting the file through the sender's network or the Internet, the document is automatically uploaded. The network may be connected to a designated homepage or a web site, and the Internet may be connected to a homepage or a web site designated in the inside or outside, and may be changed depending on the location of the homepage.

The process of extracting data from the document, converting the data into an image file, and uploading the image file to a designated homepage is performed by a printer conversion module installed in the transmitting terminal. The image file uploaded to the homepage is encrypted by the encryption module if necessary so that the security is maintained.

On the other hand, the recipient accesses the homepage of the sender who uploads the document through the Internet in order for the recipient's terminal to use the document file uploaded to the homepage. Alternatively, the recipient can use his / her homepage or e-mail. When the sender's home page is used, the user can access the sender's homepage after authentication using an ID and a password, etc., and download the document.

The recipient uses the file name as the identification method of the document. The unique number used in the file name may be a special column in the document, or the sender may manually specify the file name. Or by specifying an ID or the like between the sender and the receiver. When the recipient clicks the document file, the document file that was uploaded to the homepage is downloaded to the recipient terminal. The recipient decrypts the document file downloaded from the homepage after authentication through the decryption module, and displays and stores the decrypted document file. At this time, if necessary, the receiver may input necessary characters and the like in the document file.

If you use a virtual printer for document delivery with a program that attaches a printer conversion module to a virtual printer to prevent the forgery and falsification of the document while using the text or text, the document of the sender is converted into an image file, It is possible to extract a character string while transmitting it, attach it to an image file, and transmit it. At this time, the string is encrypted for security, and a special program called a data viewer (Dataviewer) developed separately for using the string can be used to decrypt the text of the document, and the document can be restored by using it have.

Meanwhile, in the present invention, the printer conversion module is mounted in the form of a software program in the terminal. The printer conversion module converts various documents generated in the terminal into an image file as it is according to a user's document creation command. A document converted into an image file, that is, an image file having an extension such as JPG, BMP or TIFF is stored in a storage medium such as a hard disk, a floppy disk, a USB memory or the like in a designated terminal. Also, the printer conversion module uploads the document file as it is or an image file to the homepage connected to the network connected to the Internet.

Accordingly, the printer conversion module stores the converted document image file in the storage medium in the terminal according to the user's selective designation, or uploads one or more storage media such as a home page mounted on the terminal or a network or a home page on the Internet and / So that it can be performed.

The printer conversion module can be selected by the user after the printer setting process such as a general paper printer is executed and the corresponding program is executed.

Furthermore, the printer conversion module is installed in a form of a general paper printer which can be selected when installed in a terminal through a printer setting process by combining the printer conversion module and a virtual printer developed by itself. The printer conversion module has a function of monitoring a document creation command of a paper printer already installed in the terminal.

The printer conversion module includes a function that allows the printer conversion module to substitute a document creation command to a paper printer that is preinstalled by a user. This is because the printer conversion module in the terminal judges the user's document generation command so that even if the paper printer is set as the default printer, the document is transmitted instead of the actual printing, through the desired homepage, server or e-mail .

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to generate and deliver a document only by operating a homepage according to the situation of a document sender / receiver. Therefore, by uploading the document information to the printer directly to the printer through real-time via the medium of the Internet, the user can be free from the temporal and spatial constraints. Moreover, the printer conversion module can be stopped at any time according to the intention of the sender / It is possible to perform automatic document transmission and paper documents in parallel.

In the present invention, a printer conversion module converts a document into an image file as it is, creates a file name, stores the generated file in a homepage designated through a communication protocol, and completes document delivery using the file, It is possible to transmit documents independently without intervention of other organizations.

The embodiment of the present invention as described above can be applied to an embodiment of the present invention in which a document is left as it is or after being imaged in correspondence with a document creation command after document creation, And the modified embodiment based on the technical idea of the present invention naturally belongs to the scope of the present invention.

Claims (5)

delete delete delete delete In creating and delivering an electronic document,
Creating an electronic document by a user;
Designating any one of a homepage, a mobile app or a server to which the electronic document is to be transmitted;
Generating an electronic document file by using a document creation command for the electronic document;
Separating and automatically extracting an image portion and a character string from the electronic document file;
Automatically generating a file name that can identify a user in the electronic document file in which the image portion and the character string are distinguished;
Automatically transferring the image portion of the extracted electronic document file or the character string to any selected one of the selected homepage, the mobile web, or the server;
The selected homepage, the mobile app or And accessing any one of the servers and restoring the electronic document using the image or the character string after receiving the electronic document file.

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