JP3606189B2 - Document processing system - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a document processing system that processes a document in which an instruction for synthesizing a plurality of document elements such as XML is described, and more particularly to reduction of processing load in a network environment.
[0002]
[Prior art]
In recent years, with the spread of the Internet, various services using the Internet have been provided. For example, a system is being realized in which a printer placed in a public place such as a convenience store is connected to the Internet and various documents are printed in accordance with a print instruction received via the Internet.
[0003]
In this system, for example, in order to print a document on a network, a URL (uniform resource locators) as reference information of the document is instructed, and the target document is downloaded from the URL via the Internet and printed. A so-called “pull print” service is performed.
[0004]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, in the above-described conventional service, the HTML document specified by the URL is always printed as it is, so that, for example, an advertisement image that has meaning only on the Internet is printed as it is. In addition, when the printer needs to always acquire image data to be combined with a specified document in the case of pull printing, the processing load on the network increases. As described above, in the conventional service, there is a problem that the processing considering the circumstances on the site side of the processing is not performed.
[0005]
The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object thereof is to provide a document processing system in consideration of the circumstances at the site of processing.
[0006]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
The present invention is a document processing system that processes a document in which an image data compositing instruction is described, and indicates any one instruction to leave, replace, or delete the image data to be composed. A means for receiving an input of a selection instruction from a user; a means for rewriting at least a part of a description of a synthesis instruction for image data in accordance with the input selection instruction; and generating a corrected document; and And a means for performing image synthesis of any one of the image data to be synthesized as it is, replacing, or deleting in accordance with an image data synthesis instruction. Thereby, the image data can be synthesized according to the situation on the site side of the document processing. Further, for example, processing such as replacement of image data or deletion of image data can be performed depending on the properties of the image data to be combined, and document processing can be performed in consideration of the circumstances at the processing site.
[0008]
Here, for recognition of the properties of the image data to be combined, a URL on the network, the size of the image data, color / monochrome, a character string representing the type of image data, and the like are used. When the corrected document is generated, if the URL does not point to the local network, the description of the image data composition instruction is rewritten.
[0012]
Further, the prior art the present invention for solving the problems is a document processing method, to accept any document that first reception means is described synthesis instruction image data only, a second receiving means Receives the input of the selection instruction from the user, in which any one instruction indicating whether to leave the image data to be combined as it is, replace or delete is input, and the means for generating a corrected document is input According to the selection instruction, at least a part of the description of the image data compositing instruction is rewritten, and the means for performing image compositing processes the modified document and leaves the image data to be composited as it is according to the image data compositing instruction , replaced or is characterized and TURMERIC row one image synthesis either be deleted.
[0013]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
As shown in FIG. 1, a document processing system 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention basically includes a printer server 11 and a printer 12, and the printer server 11 includes a plurality of WWW servers 2 via the Internet. And connected to a plurality of clients 3. The WWW server 2 stores a document described in a language such as HTML or XML, and provides a corresponding document in response to an acquisition request from the printer server 11 or the client 3 via the Internet. The printer server 11 corresponds to a means for recognizing a composition instruction according to the present invention, a means for generating a corrected document, a means for performing image composition, and a means for receiving a document.
[0014]
The client 3 is a general personal computer and has browser software installed as a WWW client. Using this browser, the user of the client 3 downloads and browses a document from the WWW server 2 or transmits a print instruction to the printer server 11.
[0015]
The printer server 11 performs various processes by processing software programs recorded on a computer-readable recording medium. That is, the printer server 11 prints a document in accordance with a print instruction received from the client 3 side. The printer server 11 receives a URL and an instruction to print the document acquired by the URL from the client 3, accesses the WWW server 2 indicated by the URL, acquires the document from this, and prints it. Generate an image. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 2, the acquired document includes a part (A) to be printed as a normal character string and an instruction to capture any image data on the processing site side and synthesize it. A part (B) in which is described. Here, the image data compositing instruction is described as a tag “<adv-img>”. However, in consideration of compatibility with HTML, it is defined as “<! Adv-img>”. , It may be handled as a comment in HTML.
[0016]
Further, the printer server 11 associates the image data with the image data identifier and stores them in a hard disk or the like as a table as shown in FIG. A characteristic feature of the present embodiment is that, in the print image generation process, when the printer server 11 finds a part in which an instruction to synthesize image data is found in the process of processing this document, the description is shown in FIG. The modified document is generated by referring to the table shown in (1) and rewriting the image data composition instruction set in the table. That is, when the printer server 11 finds a part in which the image data is described to be combined, the printer server 11 rewrites the image data combination instruction in the order set with reference to the table shown in FIG. Note that the printer server 11 may rewrite the instruction to select image data at random and synthesize the image data instead of the set order. Here, the table shown in FIG. 3 is registered by the administrator of the printer server 11. This registration may be performed directly at the installation location of the printer server 11 or may be periodically downloaded from a management server (not shown) on the Internet. In addition, when the print instruction from the client 3 includes an option “do not print image data”, the printer server 11 performs rewriting to delete the image data composition instruction.
[0017]
Further, the printer server 11 processes the modified document generated by rewriting the image data combining instruction, generates the print image by combining the image data instructed in accordance with the rewritten image data combining instruction, and generates the print image. 12 is output. The printer 12 performs printing according to the print image input from the printer server 11.
[0018]
[Replace synthesis target]
In the description so far, the image data synthesis instruction merely indicates the synthesis position. However, the image data synthesis instruction described in the document specifies the image data to be synthesized by default. It may be. In this case, for example, the image data to be synthesized is specified by a URL as reference information.
[0019]
In this case, the user of the client 3 selects whether to leave the default image data to be combined, replace it, or delete it, and instruct the printer server 11 to print the document. I do. Then, if the printer server 11 is left as it is, the image data is synthesized as it is without performing the replacement process (without generating the corrected document), and is output to the printer 12. When deletion is selected, the printer server 11 deletes the description of the compositing instruction to generate a corrected document, processes this to generate a print image, and outputs the print image to the printer 12.
[0020]
Further, when the replacement of the image data is selected, the printer server 11 performs the replacement when the URL satisfies a predetermined condition based on the URL as the property of the default image data. Here, the predetermined condition is, for example, a condition that it does not belong to a local network (the same network as the printer server 11), a URL of the WWW server 2 set in advance, or a WWW server set in advance. In some cases, the URL is not the second URL. Further, based on the default size of image data, replacement processing may be performed for image data of a predetermined size or larger.
[0021]
[Composition of advertising image data and billing processing]
When the printer server 11 is installed in a convenience store or the like to provide a print service, the image data to be combined is used as advertisement image data, and when the advertisement image data is combined, the charge amount for the print service is accordingly determined. It is also preferable to give a discount. In this case, the printer server 11 manages a table (FIG. 4) in which image data to be combined, its identifier, and the identifier of the advertiser are associated, and when the corresponding advertisement image data is combined, Transfer the discount fee to the advertiser and charge. In addition, this image data is associated with the limit of the advertising fee from the advertiser and the transfer charge so far, and when the transfer charge is made, the cumulative charge is added to the transfer charge so far. It is also preferable to set the advertisement image data to be unusable when the limit amount is exceeded. The discount amount is set corresponding to the type of printing (color, duplex, etc.).
[0022]
Also in this case, it is preferable that the user of the client 3 can select whether to synthesize the advertisement image data. It is also preferable that default advertisement image data is set, and the printer server 11 performs processing as described above in response to selection from the user as to whether or not replacement is possible.
[0023]
In this way, when the user permits the replacement of the advertisement image data, the printer server 11 can replace the advertisement image data of the company in the vicinity of the installation location.
[0024]
[Operation]
Next, the operation of the document processing system of this embodiment will be described. The user of the client 3 instructs the printer server 11 installed in the convenience store to print a Web page provided from the WWW server 2. Here, it is assumed that the user has selected an option that allows replacement with respect to an instruction to synthesize image data. Then, the printer server 11 acquires the Web page from the WWW server 2 and analyzes (parses) it. Here, when the description of the image data compositing instruction is found, based on the designation from the user side, the composite instruction is rewritten to an instruction for compositing a plurality of preset image data, and a corrected document is generated. Then, based on the correction instruction of the corrected image data, the image data set in advance is combined to create a print image. Then, the printer server 11 outputs this print image to the printer 12. The printer 12 prints this print image. The user visits a convenience store in which the printer 12 is installed and acquires the print result.
[0025]
As described above, in the document processing system according to the present embodiment, different image data can be synthesized for each installation location of the printer server 11, so that, for example, an advertisement of a local company can be inserted. Also, by holding image data to be combined on the printer server 11 side, it is not necessary to acquire image data via the Internet, and the processing load can be reduced.
[0026]
In the above description, when a print service is provided, the printer server rewrites and processes image data compositing instructions when analyzing XML or the like. However, a WWW server or a multicast is used. A server, a cache server, a proxy server, or the like at this time may perform this process. In this way, for example, by rewriting the image data composition instruction tag to the HTML image data insertion instruction tag (“<img src =...>”), The client uses the current browser. However, it is possible to insert different image data for each server, and by replacing the image data specified by the URL of a specific WWW server with image data set in advance in the proxy server, It is possible to prevent image data from being acquired and synthesized from a certain site.
[0027]
【The invention's effect】
According to the present invention, the description of the synthesis instruction is recognized from the document in which the synthesis instruction of the image data is described, the description is rewritten, set to the description of the synthesis instruction of the preset image data, and corrected. A computer readable record characterized by storing a document processing system, a document processing method, and such a document processing program for generating a document, processing the modified document, and performing image composition in accordance with an image data composition instruction Since it is a medium, it is possible to synthesize image data according to the situation on the site side of document processing.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is a configuration block diagram of a document processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of a document.
FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of a table managed by the printer server.
FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of a table managed by the printer server.
[Explanation of symbols]
1 Document processing system, 2 WWW server, 3 client, 11
Printer server, 12 printers.

Claims (3)

A document processing system for processing a document in which an image data composition instruction is described,
Means for accepting an input of a selection instruction from a user in which any one instruction to leave the image data to be combined as it is, replace or delete is displayed ;
Means for rewriting at least part of the description of the image data composition instruction in accordance with the input selection instruction and generating a corrected document;
Means for processing the modified document and performing image synthesis of any one of the image data to be synthesized as it is, replacing or deleting according to the image data synthesis instruction;
A document processing system comprising: To accept any document that first reception means is described synthesis instruction image data,
A second receiving unit that accepts an input of a selection instruction from a user in which one of the instructions to leave, replace, or delete the image data to be combined is left as it is;
According to the selection instruction inputted by the means for generating a corrected document, at least part of the description of the image data synthesis instruction is rewritten,
Processing means for said modification document to perform image synthesis, characterized according to synthesis instruction of the image data, or image data to be combined with it, replacing either a TURMERIC row one image synthesis either delete Document processing method. A module that accepts a document in which an image data composition instruction is described;
A module for accepting an input of a selection instruction from a user, in which one instruction of whether to leave the image data to be combined as it is, replace or delete is displayed;
A module that rewrites at least a part of the description of the image data synthesis instruction in accordance with the input selection instruction and generates a corrected document;
A module for processing the modified document and performing image synthesis of any one of the image data to be synthesized as it is, replacing or deleting according to the image data synthesis instruction;
A computer-readable recording medium characterized by storing a document processing program including:

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