JPH05130288A - Mixed mode document processing system and device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To allow a sender side to command the processing of a receiver side relating to a transmission document. CONSTITUTION:A block generating section 11 generates a block based on data inputted from input means 1,3,12. Moreover, the block generating section 11 generates a processing command block based on data registered in a processing command storage section 13. The block generated by the block generating section 11 is sent to a receiver side. The receiver side detects a processing command block from the received block and an analysis section 18 recognizes the content. Then the reception block, that is, the document is outputted to an output means such as a printer 8 or a disk device 7 selected according to the recognized processing content. Data are registered in advance to an analysis data registration section 16 at the receiver side and data generated by a sender side analysis data generating section 15 are inputted at communication and registered.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a mixed mode document processing method and apparatus, and more particularly to a mixed mode document processing method and apparatus which allows a receiving side to easily perform processing desired by a transmitting side for a transmitted document. ..

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art There is a document processing apparatus which creates a mixed mode document in which character data blocks and image data blocks are mixed. A document created by this type of document processing apparatus is often transmitted to another document processing apparatus and printed or displayed on the receiving side for use.

A mixed mode document is composed of data units such as blocks, frames, pages, and documents, and these data units are called layout objects. The data element of this layout object has information called user-readable comment, and the comment set in this can be transmitted to the other device together with the document.

For example, in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 64-24567, title information is added to the data elements of the layout object, and the receiving side displays or prints the title information according to a planned system parameter. -Mode communication terminal device is described.

[0005]

The transmitted mixed mode document can be printed, stored, edited, or the like for the convenience of the receiving side.
Can be transferred to a third document processing device,
Of the various processes described above, it may be desirable to have the receiving side perform the process selected according to the intention of the transmitting side.

For example, depending on the type of document, there are cases where the purpose of transmission can be sufficiently fulfilled simply by displaying the transmitted document and confirming its contents. There is also a case where a document transmitted later is included in the document transmitted earlier to be completed as one document. In this case, for the time being, the previous document is simply stored in the storage means on the receiving side, and the purpose of transmission at that time is achieved. Furthermore, there are cases where the user wants to immediately print the transmitted document and perform desired processing such as distribution or circulation.

As described above, when the transmitted document is desired to be processed by the transmitting side, there is a demand for surely transmitting this intention to the receiving side. However, the conventional mixed-mode document processing device has a problem in that it is not possible to satisfy such a demand and sufficiently convey the intention of the transmitting side to the receiving side.

The object of the present invention is to solve the above problems,
To provide a mixed mode document processing method and device in which a receiving side can recognize a process intended by a transmitting side for a transmitted mixed mode document and can execute the same.

[0009]

According to the present invention for solving the above-mentioned problems and for achieving the object, a transmitting side is provided with a processing command for instructing processing contents on the receiving side to a specific block set in advance. In addition, the receiving side is characterized in that the processing command added to the specific block is analyzed and processing is performed in accordance with this processing command.

[0010]

According to the present invention having the above characteristics, the block including the processing command is specified in advance so that it can be commonly recognized by the transmitting side and the receiving side. Then, the sending side writes the processing command in this specific block, and the receiving side automatically searches the specific block and analyzes the processing command so that the receiving side automatically performs the processing intended by the sending side for the sent document. Can be recognized and executed.

[0011]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration of a document processing apparatus showing an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, the image information of the document read by the reading device 1 and the communication control device 6
A document input from another document processing apparatus via is stored in the image memory 2 as image data. Information such as characters, numbers and symbols input from the keyboard 3 is stored in the image memory 2 as a predetermined character code, that is, character data.

The image information stored in the image memory 2 is displayed on the CRT 4, and while referring to the display information on the CRT 4, the keyboard 3 or the mouse 5 is operated to delete / insert / enlarge / reduce the image information. Etc. are edited. The edited image information and the image information stored in the image memory 2 can be stored in a disk device 7 as an external storage device as needed, and can be stored in another document via the communication control device 6. Can be transferred to the processor.

The document data received by the document processing apparatus is temporarily stored in the image memory 2 and then output to the printer 8 or the CRT 4 according to the output instruction. Before printing out the received document data with the printer 8,
First, it can be displayed on the CRT 4 and edited.
By doing so, not only the data as it is received, but also an arbitrarily edited data document can be printed out.

Each of the above components is a CPU according to a program or control data stored in advance in the control memory 9.
Controlled by 10. A conversion table and a conversion program for converting the input character data into image data are stored in the control memory 9.

Next, the operation of the embodiment of the present invention will be described.
First, the outline of the operation will be described with reference to the specific block layout diagram in the document shown in FIG. The document D shown in FIG. 9A is composed of blocks A, B and C, and of these blocks, blocks B and C are the main body of the transmitted document. And block A is this document D
With respect to the above, it is a specific block including a processing command indicating the processing content to be executed on the receiving side.

The layout position of the block A, that is, the coordinates of the starting point of the block A is set in advance which block is to be the processing command block so that it can be commonly recognized by the receiving side and the transmitting side. In this embodiment, a processing command "print" is written in the block A whose layout position is preset in this way. As this processing command, data registered in advance in the storage means such as the control memory 9 may be called and written, or the processing command may be input from the keyboard 3 every communication. Further, this processing command may be either character data or image data.

The document D created on the sending side is shown in FIG.
As shown in (b), it is received by the receiving side as it is. Then, when it is printed according to the processing command, the program is set so that the processing command is deleted and printed as shown in FIG. It should be noted that this processing command is not deleted in a document in which there is no problem even if the processing command is directly printed on the printed document. Whether to delete or retain the processing command may be determined in the initial setting.

On the other hand, when the receiving side does not have the ability to analyze the processing command, when the received document is displayed on the CRT 4, the processing command is displayed as it is together with the document body (FIG. 3 (d)). Therefore, even if the device on the receiving side does not have the ability to analyze the processing command (unique ability), at the display stage by the CRT 4,
The operator can recognize the necessity of printing.

Next, the document transmission / reception operation of this embodiment will be described in detail with reference to the flow chart of FIG. It should be noted that the transmitting side writes the processing command in a specific block in the document before the operation shown in this flowchart.

First, on the transmitting side, step S in FIG.
At 1, the line with the receiving side is connected. In step S2, the transmission side has capability information, that is, it has a unique ability to add a processing command for instructing the processing content on the reception side to a specific block and transmits, and the mixed mode document processing device. Send capability information such as things. In step S3, the capability information of the receiving side sent from the receiving side is received.

In step S4, it is determined based on the received capability information whether or not the document processing device on the receiving side has the capability of analyzing the processing command (unique capability). When it is determined that the receiving side does not have the unique ability, the process proceeds to step S5, the document transmission condition is instructed,
The document is transmitted in step S6.

On the other hand, when the receiving side has the unique ability, the process proceeds from step S4 to step S7, and it is determined whether or not the processing command is registered in the receiving side. If common settings are made on the sending side and the receiving side so that the processing command and the actual operation on the receiving side are associated in advance, this command registration is unnecessary.

For example, it is defined that the character data "01" is data indicating a printing operation, and that the processing command "please print" corresponds to this character data "01". This command registration is not necessary if the recognition is common with the side. That is, the processing command is represented by a predetermined code, and the receiving side recognizes the processing content based on this code. Therefore,
In addition to such settings, this character data "0
To register a specific processing command such as "1" and "please print" in association with each other and to recognize the processing command in any form, register this command. Become.

When registering, the process proceeds to step S8,
Data for processing command analysis (data for analysis) is transmitted to the receiving side. This data is, for example, information indicating that “please print” and character data “01” correspond.

Next, the operation on the receiving side will be described. On the receiving side, the line with the transmitting side is connected in step S9 of FIG. In step S10, the capability information of the transmitting side is received. In step S11, the capability information of oneself is transmitted.
This capability information includes data indicating that the mixed mode reception capability and the processing command analysis capability are available.

In step S12, the analysis data is received. In step S13, the transmission condition sent from the transmitting side is received, and in step S14, the document is received.

In step S15, the presence or absence of registration information is determined. If the analysis data is received in step S12, the process proceeds to step S16, and this analysis data is registered.

In step S17, it is determined whether or not there is a block containing a processing command (processing command block). This determination is made based on whether or not the starting point of the block is at the planned coordinate position, for example, the position (0,0). If there is a processing command block, the process proceeds to step S18, and the contents are analyzed. In this analysis, if analysis data is newly registered, the content of the processing command is analyzed according to the analysis data. If no new analysis data is registered, the processing is performed in advance according to the analysis conditions set on the transmitting side and the receiving side.

In step S19, scheduled processing is performed according to the processing command. Here, the received document is printed according to the processing command “print”.

If there is no block including the processing command, the received document is processed according to the setting of the receiving side.

Next, with reference to the block diagram of FIG. 1, a main function of the document processing apparatus for performing the above operation will be described.
In FIG. 1, the block generation unit 11 on the transmission side includes a keyboard 3, a reading device 1, or a host computer 12.
A mixed mode block is generated based on data input from input means such as.

The processing command storage unit 13 stores processing commands indicating a plurality of processings to be processed on the receiving side in advance. Then, according to an instruction input from the keyboard 3, a predetermined processing command is supplied to the block generation unit 11.

The mixed mode block including the processing command block generated by the block generation unit 11 is stored in the document storage unit 14a, called by the communication control unit 6a according to the transmission instruction, and sent to the line.

An analysis data creating section 15 is provided as needed. In this analysis data creation unit 15,
Data stored in the processing command storage unit 13 is combined with predetermined character data to create analysis data for analyzing the processing command. This analysis data is transmitted to the receiving side via the communication control unit 6a.

On the other hand, on the receiving side, the document received via the communication control unit 6b is stored in the document storage unit 14b, and the analysis data is stored in the analysis data registration unit 16. The processing command block detection unit 17 detects a processing command block including processing commands in the document stored in the document storage unit 14b.

When the processing command block is detected, the processing command block is output from the document storage section 14b to the processing command analysis section 18 in response to the detection signal. The content of this processing command block is compared with the data in the analysis data storage unit 16 to recognize the processing content.

The documents stored in the document processing unit 14b are output to the printer 8 according to the recognized processing contents, transferred to the disk device 7, or transferred to another document processing device via the communication control unit 6. It is transferred.

As described above, in this embodiment, by adding a specific block including a processing command to a document, the receiving side can surely recognize the intention of the transmitting side regarding the processing of the transmitted document.

Further, in this embodiment, the minimum setting is made so that the transmitting side and the receiving side can commonly recognize the analysis method of the processing command, and the specific analysis data is the document transmission. Prior to this, the sender side can send to the receiver side and register.

[0040]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, the processing on the receiving side can be controlled by the processing command transmitted together with the document as intended by the transmitting side, and the optimum processing can be performed depending on the type of document. The processing form can be set.

Further, in the case of the document processing apparatus in which the sending side and the receiving side are under the control of the same user, the system is further systematized and unified management becomes easy.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing main functions of a document processing apparatus showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration of a document processing device.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an arrangement of blocks in a document.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a transmission operation according to an embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

2 ... Image memory, 3 ... Keyboard, 4 ... CRT,
6 ... Communication control device, 8 ... Printer, 9 ... Control memory, 10 ... CPU, 11 ... Block generation unit, 13 ...
Processing command storage unit, 17 ... Processing command block detection unit, 18 ... Processing command analysis unit

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A transmission side adds a processing command to a preset specific block to instruct processing contents of a transmission document at the reception side, and a reception side performs processing added to the specific block. A mixed mode document processing method characterized by analyzing a command and performing processing according to this processing command. 2. The processing command for analyzing the processing command and analysis data representing processing contents corresponding to the processing command are transmitted from the transmitting side to the receiving side. Mixed mode document processing method. 3. A mixed mode document processing apparatus, comprising means for writing a processing command instructing processing contents on a receiving side regarding a transmission document in a preset specific block. 4. A means for detecting a specific block containing a processing command in a received document, and a data analysis for analyzing the content of the processing command by comparing the data of the detected specific block with planned analysis data. A mixed mode document processing apparatus comprising: means and means for transferring the received document to a selected output means for executing the processing recognized by the data analysis means.