WO1997036250A1 - Verfahren zur datenkonvertierung - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to a method for converting data between two applications or software packages that use different data formats, according to the preamble of claim 1.
- the invention is based on the fundamental problem of the incompatibility of data from different applications or software packages. Many programs have their own data format for the internal processing of the data. However, this is rarely readable by other programs for further processing. The user is faced with the problem of transporting any data from application A to application B, although the data formats of applications A and B are generally unknown to him.
- the data to be transported are mostly databases, but application data can also occur in the broadest sense, such as text files, CAD data, sound formats, calculation programs and others.
- a special method for data conversion is already known from DE 4128 940 AI. With the aid of this method, print-prepared digital data of a document created with text and / or graphics software on the screen of a data processing system are converted into facsimile-specific transmission data.
- This method replaces the cumbersome, time-consuming and error-prone method of printing out a document created on the screen of a data processing system on a printer connected to the data processing system and then scanning the document printed on paper by an optoelectronic unit of a facsimile device. The scanning data of the optoelectronic unit are then coded and transmitted in a facsimile-specific manner.
- the conversion software according to the invention is able to transfer data of any format A into data of any format B semi-automatically and also fully automatically, with in principle no restriction with regard to the possible data formats. Since the data formats A and B are analyzed semi-automatically and fully automatically in their fine structure by the conversion software according to the invention, in addition to the rough structure of the data, the possible error rate in the data transfer from application A to application B is significantly lower than in the usual auxiliary programs. In addition, data changes and data adjustments are provided in various levels, for example in the file, record, element level and others, in order to reduce the error rate in the target application.
- FIG. 4 shows the information flow diagram according to FIG. 1 in a more detailed representation.
- FIG. 1 shows in the form of an information flow diagram the sequence of a data transfer using the method according to the invention or the conversion software (1) according to the invention.
- a user would like to transport any source data Q (2) generated and exported by application A (3) to application B (4) in order to process them there.
- Each of the applications A (3) and B (4) can import and export their data in a format that they can understand; this is implemented in applications (3) and (4) in order to exchange data between applications of the same type at different workplaces.
- the user can now generate a sample export of, for example, approximately 500 data records from the database of application A (3) and that of application B (4).
- This creates template file VA (5) from application A (3) and template file VB (6) from application B (4).
- a prerequisite for the functioning of the data conversion method is that application B (4) can import its own exported template file VB (6), which it has produced and exported, but this should of course work.
- the template files VA (5) and VB (6) can be analyzed (7) using the conversion software (1).
- the conversion software (1) knows the data structure of the template files VA (5) and VB (6) and also the necessary links between the elements of the template files VA (5) and VB (6). This conversion pattern for the transfer of the data from application A (3) to application B (4) is stored as a sample sequence file M.
- the analysis phase of both the template file VA (5) and the template file VB (6) is subdivided into a rough analysis, a subsequent fine analysis, a further subsequent sub-analysis and so on. ter in order to finally arrive at the final analysis.
- the analysis phase is then followed by the linking phase, in which the analyzes of the template files are linked.
- a conversion of the source data Q (2) into the target data Z (12) is achieved with the aid of the determined analysis and linking result.
- application B (4) can import the target data Z (12), since they are in the data format that can be imported and exported by application B (4), and process them further.
- the source file (28) to be exported from application A (3) is placed in the source analysis (29).
- the target analysis (11) is created.
- the converted data are then placed in the importable target file (30).
- a source or target analysis is no longer necessary.
- the rule formation and the links were already generated with the template files VA (5) and VB (6).
- the source file Q (2) is read and with the data filter processed from the pattern flow data M.
- the data records generated are written to the target file.
- the data filter can use external files for comparison as well as internal files for searching and sorting.
- FIG. 2 shows a diagram which shows the structure of a general data transfer file in a detailed form.
- the analysis (8) of the template files VA (5) and VB (6) is divided into several phases. On the basis of the first recognition of the rough structure (13), the file form is first pre-classified, as in the case of conversion programs known hitherto.
- the intelligent conversion software now also provides a set of algorithms that are able to automatically recognize the fine structure (14) of the data at hand.
- the analysis (8) is continued in order to also recognize the substructures (15) within the data elements (17).
- the rough structure (13) serves to recognize the file structure, the separators, the element identifier, the character length, etc. in the file space and in the sentence space (16).
- files are differentiated according to their file form. The differences can be recognized, for example, from file extensions or information structures within the entire file.
- the fine structure (14) serves to recognize element existence, element character contents, element character length, etc., such as element dream (19) and drawing space (20).
- the fine structure (14) relates to the sentence level, which contains the structure of a single data record in the so-called sentence space (16) from the elements (17), as well as the links between the sentence elements (17), the so-called sentence control space (18).
- sentence level contains the structure of a single data record in the so-called sentence space (16) from the elements (17), as well as the links between the sentence elements (17), the so-called sentence control space (18).
- the substructure (15) serves to recognize words and sub-elements with sub-separators in the individual elements, such as element dream (19), drawing space, word space.
- the substructure is thus subdivided into the element level, the element space (19), and the drawing level, the drawing space with number space (20).
- the element level (19) the existential characteristics for an element (17) are determined.
- the character level (20) specifies the possible selection spaces for numbers, letters, special characters, OEM characters and others.
- the "Working Time” element can be a
- the "Street" element contains the patterns
- These substructures are analyzed as words and examined for patterns. For example, street names and house numbers can be split.
- the pattern and linkage analyzes are carried out with the aforementioned analysis results
- FIG. 3 shows in diagram form the synthesis process (11) for the formation of the data elements (21) for application B (4) "from the data elements (22) of application A (3).
- a data filter (23) which contains the previously determined linking rules (24) between the data elements (21) and (22). If one sends the data records (25) from the application A (3) through this data filter (23), one obtains new data records (26) with new data elements (21), which in one of the applications B (4) and exportable data format.
- the number of data elements (22) of data records (25) from application A (3) is not necessarily the same as the number of data elements (21) of data records (26) for application B (4), the number of data records ( 25) and (26) is generally the same for both applications A (3) and B (4).
- the data elements (21) must also be compared. and (22) possible with an external database or several external databases (27), for example also the mixture of several databases, such as customer file + invoice file.
- an external comparison for example, the postal codes of data records (25) and (26) can be checked by comparing the data elements (21) and (22) of country, city, street and postal code with those of the external database (27) compares.
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