JP2005322082A - Document attribute input device and method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a document attribute input technology for easily extracting attributes from a document and inputting them. <P>SOLUTION: When there are proper attributes in highlighted words and phrases on an attribute input picture, the highlighted part is clicked by using a pointing device 16. This is determined by an event processing part 17, and the text of the highlighted part (the text of the link destination when it is linked) is extracted, and written in a buffer memory 18. Afterwards, when the corresponding field of an attribute input table is clicked, this is determined by an event processing part 17, and the text of the buffer memory 18 is written in the field. Afterwards, contents of the buffer memory 18 are cleared. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a document attribute input technique for presenting a document to an operator and inputting the attribute of the document. In particular, the present invention can easily determine and input a document attribute.

  In order to use the office space effectively, it has been proposed to store paper documents in a relatively low-cost warehouse at a relatively low cost, or to discard them and digitize the contents for use. The digitization of paper documents is preferable for reducing office costs and sharing information. By the way, in order to manage the digitized document, it is preferable to extract and assign important matters for each document. However, in order to extract such important matters (document attributes), it takes a lot of time and cost for the operator to read the document, extract the important matters, and input them. .

As a patent document related to the present invention, there is one that displays a copyrighted work image together with a copyright attribute in order to manage a charge related to the copyright (Patent Document 1). However, in this document, there is no description about inputting a document attribute simply.
JP-A-10-79016

  The present invention has been made in consideration of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a document attribute input technique for easily extracting and inputting an attribute from a document.

  According to this invention, in order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the configuration as described in the claims is adopted. Here, prior to describing the invention in detail, supplementary explanations of the claims will be given.

  That is, according to one aspect of the present invention, in order to achieve the above-mentioned object, on the document attribute input device: a document display means for displaying the document in the document display area with the document attribute value candidate word highlighted; Attribute input form display means for displaying an attribute input form in the attribute input form display area; responding to a click operation on a word highlighted in the document display area and a click operation on an input field in the attribute input form display area In addition, attribute value transfer means is provided for transferring the word of the click operation target to the input field of the click operation target.

  In this configuration, a document attribute value can be easily input by simply clicking on a highlighted document attribute value candidate (also referred to as highlight) and clicking an input field on the attribute input form.

  The document attribute input device may be configured as a device housed in a single housing, or may be configured by combining a plurality of independent devices housed in individual housings. For example, the document attribute input device may be configured by a combination of a server device and a client device.

  The document attributes widely include characteristics of the document, such as the document creation date, the document owner, the document manager, the document retention period, and the document type. It does not relate to the content of the document, but may relate to the external shape such as the document size.

  The attribute input form is a form for inputting attributes. For example, various forms such as a table or an input field using an HTML form tag can be adopted.

  For highlighting a word, a character attribute different from any surroundings, such as a character color attribute, a background color attribute of a corresponding portion, an underline, a character font, or the like can be adopted.

  The click operation is typically a click operation by a pointing device such as a mouse device, but in short, includes a wide range of event generation operations for specifying a pointing position, and includes equivalent operations of other pointing devices. For example, an operation using a cursor key and an enter key (enter key) is also included.

  According to another aspect of the present invention, in order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the document attribute input device: a document display means for displaying the document with the attribute value candidate words highlighted in the document display area; Attribute input form display means for displaying the attribute input form in the attribute input form display area; in response to a click operation on the word highlighted in the document display area, the word of the click operation is displayed in the attribute input form Attribute value transfer means for transferring to the input field is provided.

  In this configuration, it is possible to easily input a document attribute simply by clicking a highlighted document attribute value candidate.

  When there are a plurality of input fields of the attribute input form, the input field of the transfer destination is uniquely determined based on the operation order, the attribute contents, and the like.

  In this configuration, there is further provided a fixed attribute value display means for displaying a fixed attribute value in the fixed attribute value display area, and when a click operation is performed on the fixed attribute value in the fixed attribute value display area In addition, the typical attribute value may be transferred to the input field. Regular attribute values can be supplementarily used to assist input.

  Further, an important phrase extracting unit for extracting the important phrase of the document may be further provided, and the document extracted by the important phrase extracting unit may be displayed as an attribute value candidate phrase. The important phrase extracting unit may extract a specific expression as an important phrase. The specific expression is a specific expression such as a person name, a place name, an organization name, a currency, and a date. The document display means may highlight a word with a display attribute corresponding to the type of the unique expression.

  In addition, the displayed document with the attribute value candidate words highlighted by the document display means is described in the HTML language, and the document described in the HTML language is obtained by character recognition from the original image data. The document display means may switch and display the document described in the HTML language and the original image data. In this case, when a paper document is digitized, attributes can be easily acquired and input, and image data can also be displayed, so that reliable verification can be performed from the electronic image of the original document.

  Further, a means for determining whether or not an attribute value to be transferred is acceptable as an attribute value may be provided. If sharing is not possible, posting may be prohibited, a prompt may be given during work, and attention may be given by highlighting the corresponding field on the attribute input form after work.

  The present invention is most suitable for assigning a document attribute when a paper document is digitized. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and is also applicable to a case where an attribute is originally given to a document prepared as electronic data. Of course there is.

  Further, the present invention can be realized not only as an apparatus or a system but also as a method. Of course, a part of the invention can be configured as software. Of course, software products used to cause a computer to execute such software are also included in the technical scope of the present invention.

  These and other aspects of the invention are set forth in the appended claims and will be described in detail below with reference to examples.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to input document attributes with a simple operation.

  Examples of the present invention will be described below.

  First, Embodiment 1 of the present invention will be described. The first embodiment is realized by, for example, one computer or a plurality of computers, and the configuration is shown as a functional block. Each functional block is realized by computer hardware resources or software resources. Of course, a similar configuration may be realized by combining the circuit units individually.

  FIG. 1 shows a document attribute input apparatus according to the first embodiment. In this figure, the document attribute input apparatus includes an HTML document display unit 11, an image document display unit 12, an attribute input table display unit 13, and a fixed phrase table display unit. 14, a display device 15, a pointing device 16, an event processing unit 17, a buffer memory 18, an HTML document storage unit 19, an image document storage unit 20, an attribute data storage unit 21, a fixed phrase storage unit 22, and the like. .

  The display device 15 includes a normal display device such as a CRT or a liquid crystal display device and a display control unit, and displays character codes and images. The pointing device 16 is a mouse device, for example, and instructs the coordinates on the display screen of the display device 15. The HTML document display unit 11 displays an HTML document stored in the HTML document storage unit 19. This HTML document is a document into which attributes are to be input. In this example, the HTML document is obtained by performing character recognition processing on an original image document (image data) obtained by scanning a paper document, extracting a specific expression, and highlighting the specific expression with a tag. is there.

  For example, in the display example shown in FIG. 2, the HTML document 151 is displayed in the left frame F1, and “Ai Ueo” (person name), “H16 / 05/10” (date), “Tokyo” (place name), Specific expressions such as “Japan Corporation” (organization name) are highlighted.

  The image document display unit 12 displays the original image document stored in the image document storage unit 20. The HTML document and the image document are switched and displayed. For example, in the example of FIG. 2, various commands are provided in the command bar C at the top, and the document can be switched by clicking the “image document” or “HTML document”.

  The attribute input table display unit 13 and the fixed phrase table display unit 14 display the attribute input table 152 and the fixed phrase table 153 in the frames F2 and F3, respectively, in the example of FIG. The attribute data storage unit 21 stores input attribute data, and the fixed phrase storage unit 22 stores fixed phrases.

  In FIG. 1, the HTML document display unit 11, the image document display unit 12, the attribute input table display unit 13, and the fixed phrase table display unit 14 are separately shown. However, one HTML document is displayed by an HTML frame method or the like. Can be configured as a single display unit. Plug-in software may be used to display the image document.

  The event processing unit 17 processes various events. In association with this example, the event processing unit 17 detects a click operation on the highlight display unit of the HTML document and writes the text of the highlight unit in the buffer memory 18. The buffer memory 18 is typically a clipboard. In addition, when the field of the attribute input table is clicked, the event processing unit 17 reads the text stored in the buffer memory 18 and performs processing for inputting the text into the field.

  Further, the event processing unit 17 writes the text in the buffer memory 18 when a specific field of the fixed phrase is clicked. Thereafter, when a field in the attribute input table is clicked, the text stored in the buffer memory 18 is read and the text is input to the field.

  In this way, an attribute value can be easily input by clicking a highlighted part or a fixed phrase field in an HTML document and then clicking a field in the attribute input table.

  FIG. 3 shows an outline of an operation example when the highlighted phrase in the HTML document is transferred to the corresponding field of the attribute input table in this embodiment. HTML document (or image document), attribute input table, and fixed phrase table are displayed (S11). When inputting an attribute by clicking on the HTML document, the HTML document is displayed. When the image document is displayed, the HTML document is displayed by clicking the “HTML” button on the command bar. Next, if there is an appropriate attribute among the highlighted words / phrases, the highlighted portion is clicked using the pointing device 16. The event processing unit 17 discriminates this and takes out the text of the highlighted part (if linked, the linked text) and writes it in the buffer memory 18 (S12). Thereafter, when a corresponding field in the attribute input table is clicked, the event processing unit 17 determines this, writes the text in the buffer memory 18 into the field, and then clears the contents of the buffer memory 18 (S13). .

  FIG. 4 shows an outline of an operation example when the fixed phrase of the fixed phrase table is transferred to the corresponding field of the attribute input table in this embodiment. In this figure, the part corresponding to FIG. The reference numerals are attached. In FIG. 4, an HTML document (or image document), an attribute input table, and a fixed phrase table are displayed by designating an attribute input target document (S11). If there is an appropriate attribute in the fixed phrase table, the fixed phrase is clicked using the pointing device 16. The event processing unit 17 determines this and takes out the text of the fixed phrase (if linked, the linked text) and writes it in the buffer memory 18 (S14). Thereafter, when a corresponding field in the attribute input table is clicked, the event processing unit 17 determines this, writes the text in the buffer memory 18 into the field, and then clears the contents of the buffer memory 18 (S13). .

  When the attribute input is complete, press the “Confirm” button to confirm.

  According to this embodiment, the attribute of the document can be easily input simply by clicking the attribute candidate displayed highlighted in the HTML document and further clicking the transfer destination. Similarly, by simply clicking a fixed phrase and clicking a transfer destination, the attributes of a document can be easily input.

  In this embodiment, the transfer source such as the highlighted attribute candidate is clicked first and the transfer destination of the attribute input table is clicked later, but the click order may be reversed. Further, when there is only one transfer destination field or when the transfer destination field can be uniquely determined according to a predetermined rule, the transfer may be performed by simply clicking the transfer source.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 5, a character recognition unit 23, a specific expression extraction unit 24, and an HTML document generation unit 25 are provided so that an HTML document is generated from an original image document and stored in the HTML document storage unit 19. Also good. The character recognition unit 23 executes a normal character recognition method that analyzes an image and outputs a character code. The specific expression extraction unit 24 extracts important expressions such as name, name, place name, organization name, date, currency, and the like, and normally includes a lexical analysis unit and an extraction rule execution unit. It is not limited. The specific expression extracting unit 24 can also specify the type of specific expression, and thereby select the highlight attribute individually. A desired HTML document can be generated by marking up with a tag based on the extracted unique expression and its type. Of course, a character recognition unit 23, a specific expression extraction unit 24, and an HTML document generation unit 25 may be separately provided to use an HTML document created by creating an HTML document in advance.

  Furthermore, a rule table 26 describing values that cannot be used as attribute values may be provided, and the event processing unit 17 may refer to them and prohibit transcription. For example, when the founding time is relatively new, for example, when a company document in the 1970s is digitized, and “56/01/01” and the year is “56”, the year “1956” However, since “Showa 56” is a failure, the input as “56” and the input of “1956” using the complete function are prohibited. In addition, by providing such an attribute value determination rule that is impossible, a character recognition error can be dealt with.

  Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the second embodiment, a document attribute input system is constructed using a server device and a client device. Of course, the server application and the client application may be executed on the same computer.

  FIG. 2 shows the entire document attribute input system according to the second embodiment. In this figure, the document attribute input system includes a server device 100 and a client device 200. The server device 100 is typically a web server, and appropriately includes an application server and a database system. The server apparatus 100 receives an HTTP request (POST, GET request, etc.) from the client apparatus 200 and transfers a predetermined document to the client apparatus 200. Alternatively, an argument included in HTTP is passed to a predetermined program, and the return value is transferred to the client device 200. In this example, the program execution unit 110 includes an HTML document output program 111 (corresponding to the HTML document display unit 11 in FIG. 1), an image document output program 112 (image document display unit 12 in FIG. 1), an attribute input table output program ( 1), the fixed phrase table output program 114 (corresponding to the fixed phrase table display unit 14) is executed.

  The storage device 120 stores HTML documents, image documents, and the like.

  The client device 200 executes browsing software 201 such as a web browser or plug-in software. In this example, the browsing software 201 receives and displays an HTML document for attribute input (all displays including the attribute input table and fixed phrase table in FIG. 2). The HTML document includes a script written in a predetermined programming language such as JavaScript (trademark). This script is executed on the browsing software 201. An event processing program 203 composed of this script is executed by the script execution unit 202. This event processing program 203 corresponds to the event processing unit 17 in FIG.

  FIG. 7 explains the outline of the operation of this embodiment. In FIG. 7, the browsing software 201 of the client device 200 displays a list of documents to be processed, for example, and selects and designates a processing target from the list (S21). The server apparatus 100 takes out the HTML document to be processed and sends it by targeting the frame F1 in FIG. 2 (S22). Note that the attribute input table and the fixed phrase table may be appropriately transferred. In the client apparatus 200, the highlighted part of the HTML document is clicked and the text of the important phrase is written on the clipboard (S23). At this time, the highlight is tagged as shown in FIG. 8A, for example, and the script used at this time is as shown in FIG.

  Next, when a field in the attribute input table is clicked, the field value is passed to the attribute table output program 113 of the server apparatus 100 as an argument so as to update the field value with the clipboard text (S24). The script executed by the click operation at this time is as shown in FIG. This example also clears the clipboard contents. The attribute table output program 113 of the server device 100 generates an attribute input table in which the text is written in the field, and transfers the attribute input table to the client device 200.

  Also in this embodiment, it is possible to easily input document attributes.

  The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention. For example, in the above example, the image document and the HTML document are alternatively displayed as a pair, but both may be displayed simultaneously. Further, the image document may not be handled. Also, other markup languages such as XML and XHTML may be used instead of the HTML language.

It is a block diagram explaining the structure of Example 1 of this invention. It is a figure explaining the example of the attribute display screen of Example 1. FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining an operation example of the first embodiment. 6 is a flowchart for explaining another operation example of the first embodiment. It is a block diagram explaining the structure of the modification of Example 1. FIG. It is a figure explaining the structure of Example 2 of this invention. FIG. 10 is a diagram for explaining the operation of the second embodiment. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of an HTML document according to Embodiment 2. FIG. FIG. 10 is a diagram for explaining copying from a transcription source in Example 2. FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating copying to a transfer destination in the second embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

11 HTML document display unit 12 Image document display unit 13 Attribute input table display unit 13 Attribute input table display unit 14 Fixed phrase table display unit 15 Display device 16 Pointing device 17 Event processing unit 18 Buffer memory 19 HTML document storage unit 20 Image document storage Unit 21 attribute data storage unit 22 fixed phrase storage unit 23 character recognition unit 24 proper expression extraction unit 25 HTML document generation unit 100 client device 100 server device 110 program execution unit 111 HTML document output program 112 image document output program 113 attribute table output program 114 fixed phrase table output program 120 storage device 151 HTML document 152 attribute input table 153 fixed phrase table 200 client device 201 viewing software 202 script Part 203 event processing program

Claims (12)

Document display means for highlighting and displaying the word of the attribute value candidate in the document display area;
Attribute input form display means for displaying the attribute input form in the attribute input form display area;
In response to a click operation on a word highlighted in the document display area and a click operation on an input field in the attribute input form display area, the word to be clicked is transferred to the input field to be clicked. And a document attribute input device. Document display means for highlighting and displaying the word of the attribute value candidate in the document display area;
Attribute input form display means for displaying the attribute input form in the attribute input form display area;
A document attribute characterized by comprising attribute value transcription means for transcribing the word to be clicked to the input field of the attribute input form in response to a click operation on the word highlighted in the document display area. Input device.   There is further provided a fixed attribute value display means for displaying a fixed attribute value in the fixed attribute value display area, and when the click operation is performed on the fixed attribute value in the fixed attribute value display area, 3. The document attribute input apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a typical attribute value is transferred to the input field.   4. The document attribute input apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an important phrase extracting unit for extracting an important phrase of the document, and displaying the document extracted by the important phrase extracting unit as an attribute value candidate phrase.   5. The document attribute input device according to claim 4, wherein the important word / phrase extracting means extracts a specific expression as an important word / phrase.   6. The document attribute input device according to claim 5, wherein the document display means highlights a phrase with a display attribute corresponding to the type of the unique expression.   A document displayed by highlighting the attribute value candidate words by the document display means is described in the HTML language, and the document described in the HTML language is obtained by character recognition from the original image data. 7. The document attribute input device according to claim 1, wherein the document display means switches between the document described in the HTML language and the original image data for display.   8. The document attribute input device according to claim 1, further comprising means for determining whether or not an attribute value to be transferred is acceptable as an attribute value. Displaying the document in the document display area by highlighting the word of the attribute value candidate by the document display means;
Displaying the attribute input form in the attribute input form display area by the attribute input form display means;
In response to a click operation on a word highlighted in the document display area and a click operation on an input field in the attribute input form display area by the attribute value transcription means, the click operation is performed on the word to be clicked. A document attribute input method comprising the steps of: Highlighting and displaying the attribute value candidate words in the document display area by the document display means;
Displaying the attribute input form in the attribute input form display area by the attribute input form display means;
In response to a click operation on a word highlighted in the document display area by the attribute value transfer means, the step of transferring the word to be clicked on to the input field of the attribute input form. Document attribute input method. Displaying the document in the document display area by highlighting the word of the attribute value candidate by the document display means;
Displaying the attribute input form in the attribute input form display area by the attribute input form display means;
In response to a click operation on a word highlighted in the document display area and a click operation on an input field in the attribute input form display area by the attribute value transcription means, the click operation is performed on the word to be clicked. A computer program for inputting document attributes, characterized in that it is used for causing a computer to execute a step of transcribing to an input field to be processed. Highlighting and displaying the attribute value candidate words in the document display area by the document display means;
Displaying the attribute input form in the attribute input form display area by the attribute input form display means;
A step of transcribing the word to be clicked into the input field of the attribute input form in response to a click operation on the word highlighted in the document display area by the attribute value transfer means. A computer program for inputting document attributes, characterized in that the computer program is used to execute the program.

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