JPH05108793A - Document edition device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prepare an excellent document in appearance by unifying the size of characters, the space between characters and the space between lines when these are different when plural documents are read. CONSTITUTION:An operator edits plural documents read from a scanner 401, looking at a CRT 405 and using a pointing device 406. At this time, when it is necessary to unify the size of characters and the space between characters, etc., in a sentence, the effect is instructed by a message area. Then, the size of characters, the space between characters and the space between lines in a sentence to be a reference are scanned and a discrimination is performed. Similarly, each value also in other sentence is discriminated, variable power is performed based on this value and a layout is performed. Thus, a sentence with a unified feeling can be prepared. As each value of these is stored in a RAM 409 and the values can be utilized at the time of the next work, it is unnecessary to again determine the data of the size of characters, etc., in a sentence to be processed and a processing speed can be improved.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document editing apparatus capable of digitally processing an input screen and unifying the appearance of a plurality of documents.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when an image printed on a plurality of sheets of paper, a printed character, or a drawn figure is to be copied on an arbitrary place on one sheet of paper, "cut and paste" must be performed manually. I had to do it. This cutting and pasting work has a problem that the document and hands are soiled and paper scraps are generated. Also, if one part fails, you have to start over again,
It was very troublesome. Therefore, as a countermeasure against this,
There has been proposed an apparatus that captures a single image and a plurality of images represented by a layout copier and creates a new image only in an arbitrary area.

[0003]

However, when reading and laying out data consisting of a plurality of different sentences,
The read data had a lack of uniformity due to differences in font style, character size, and character / line differences. Therefore, a first object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus capable of obtaining a unified layout by a function of matching the character size and the character spacing with respect to a plurality of read sentences. A second object of the present invention is to provide a device that can obtain a unified layout for a plurality of read sentences by the function of matching the character size and the character spacing and the line spacing. Further, a third object of the present invention is to promptly process the same process without repeating the same process when the operator tries various layouts on the apparatus when matching the character size with the character / line spacing. It is to provide a device that can.

[0004]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a document editing device for reading a plurality of originals as image information, and storage means for storing image information of the originals read by the original reading means. Display means for displaying the information stored in the storage means, document recognition means for recognizing that the read information is a document, and characters for determining the size of characters in the document recognized by the document recognition means. Size determining means, character spacing determining means for determining the character spacing in the document recognized by the document recognizing means, and data for each document based on the data determined by the character size determining means and the character spacing determining means. The first object is achieved by providing an editing means for unifying the character size and character spacing.

According to another aspect of the document editing apparatus of the present invention, a document reading unit for reading a plurality of documents as image information, a storage unit for storing image information of the document read by the document reading unit, and a storage unit for storing the image information in the storage unit. Display means for displaying the information, a document recognition means for recognizing that the read information is a document, a character size determination means for determining the size of the character in the document recognized by the document recognition means, A character spacing determination means for determining the character spacing in the document recognized by the document recognition means, a line spacing determination means for determining the line spacing in the document recognized as the document by the document recognition means, and the character size determination means. , Unifying the character size, character spacing, and line spacing of each document based on the data determined by the character spacing determination means and the line spacing determination means. It is and means to achieve the second object by. According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the document editing apparatus according to the second aspect, the document processing apparatus according to the second aspect further includes means for holding and reusing the information obtained by the character size determining means, the character spacing determining means, and the line spacing determining means. By doing so, the third object is achieved.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the document editing apparatus of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 shows a system block diagram of an embodiment of the document editing apparatus of the present invention. Each document read as image information by the scanner 401 is first stored in the image recording unit 402. The CPU (Central Processing Unit) 403 thins out this information and C
Write to the RT frame memory 404. This is CR
This is because the resolution of T405 is different from the resolution of the actual printer 408, and it is necessary to reduce the size in order to project the whole on the screen 360 of the CRT 405. This C
In the RT 405, as shown in FIG. 5, the read originals are arranged in the paper frame 300, and the outside of the paper frame 300 is used for editing work such as reduction / enlargement / movement / cutting / pasting / correction. Editing operation designation area 34 for operating the editing function
A message area 320 for displaying 0 and various messages is arranged.

The operator uses the pointing device 406 on the CRT 405 to lay out the screen intended by the operator. This operation is performed by the CPU 403 through the RA
The data is recorded in the M (random access memory) 409, and the display data for the operation is sequentially changed in the CRT frame memory 404. When the operator presses a command or button indicating that the layout has been completed, the CRT 405 stores each image in the printer frame memory 407 according to the RAM 409 that stores all the operations performed by the operator. 40
It is taken out from No. 2, and is written after performing image processing.

Next, the data is transferred to the printer 408 and printed out. Here, in the case of laying out a typeface, a character size, and a sentence having different character spacing and line spacing as shown in FIG. 2 on one sheet of paper, the layout will not be uniform as it is. Therefore, in order to make the sentences (1) and (2) of FIG. 2 have a sense of unity, it is assumed that the character size of the sentence of (1) and the operation of adjusting (2) between the characters and lines are performed. .. Therefore, the operator must
The command displayed on the screen 360 of 05 is designated by the pointing device 406, and the message area 3
The data of this sentence is designated according to the instruction displayed on the screen 20. Here, specify whether this text is written vertically or horizontally.

After this designation is completed, the CPU 403 of FIG.
Of the two specified sentences, the reference sentence (1) is
For example, in the case of horizontal writing, the line spacing and the character height of each line can be known by scanning in the vertical direction while recording the value obtained by integrating the number of drawing dots in the horizontal dot row. When this operation is illustrated, the number of the recorded drawing dots is graphed as shown in FIG. 3A, and from this, the length of a ₁ , a ₂ , ..., A _X1 is the height of each row, b _1, b _{2 ,} . , b _x1-1 can be determined to be between each line. This a ₁ , a ₂ , ...,
The maximum value among the character height of each row of a _X1 and the height a of character in this _{sentence, b 1, b 2, ...} , of this document the minimum value among b _x1-1 rows b And Here, _X1 represents the number of lines of the sentence (1) in FIG.

The character width and the character gap are the height a ₁ of the character on the n-th line,
This can be known by scanning in the horizontal direction while recording the value obtained by integrating the number of drawing dots in the vertical direction in the width of (1 ≦ i ≦ _X1 ). If it is illustrated, by plotting the number of drawing dots recorded as shown in FIG.
The length of these c _{(i, 1),} c _{(i, 2),} … c _{(i, y1)} is the width of each character, and d _{(i, 1),} d _{(i, 2),} … _, d _{(i , y1-1)} can be known as the _space between characters. This c _{(i, 1),} c in all x1 lines
_The value having the maximum width of _{(i, 2),} ... C _{(i, y1)} is c _i , d _{(i, 1),}
The value with the smallest width in d _{(i, 2),} … _, d _{(i, y1-1)} is d
And Here, y ₁ is the maximum number of characters per line of the sentence (1) in FIG.

Subsequently, similar processing is performed for another sentence, (2) in FIG. Then, the heights l _1, l _2, ... _{, x2} of the characters in each line are obtained, and the maximum value is set as l,
The height of the letters in this sentence. On the other hand, the width m of each character
The length of _{(j, 1),} m _{(j, 2),} ... _, M _{(j, y2)} is obtained, and the value having the maximum width is set as the width m of the character in this sentence. here,
_x2 represents the number of lines of the sentence (2) in FIG. 2 and 1 ≦ j
≤ _x2 and _y2 indicate the maximum number of characters per line.
With the above values, the sentence (2) in FIG. 2 is subjected to the scaling process with the values of the vertical magnification a / l and the horizontal magnification b / m. By this processing, the character size becomes the same as the sentence of (1) as shown in (2) of FIG. However, since the character spacing and line spacing are different, the following character spacing and line spacing matching processing is performed. That is, (2) in FIG.
The line spacing of the sentence n _1, n _2, ... _, n
_x2-1 and the character spacing p _{(j, 1),} p _{(j, 2),} … _{(j, y2-1)} are _calculated ,
The minimum line spacing n and the minimum character spacing p are determined.

The dot line of the difference between n and b is defined as e
> B _, subtract from n _1, n _2, ... _, N _x2-1, and add if n <b. Similarly, this process is performed for the character spacing. As a result, it is possible to process the sentence (2) having a character with a line spacing and a space between characters, which is the same as the reference sentence (1) in FIG. In the above-described embodiment, the description is made using the horizontally written sentences, but there is no problem in processing even if vertically written sentences or three or more sentences.

Next, the processing procedure of the above embodiment will be described with reference to the flow chart shown in FIG. First, it is determined whether or not the designated original has been previously subjected to this processing (step 1). If you haven't done (Step 1; N), first, is the sentence horizontal writing,
Information about vertical writing is input (step 2). Then, the height of the character of each line (step 3), the length of each line (step 4), the width of each character of each line (step 5), and the space between each character of each line (step 6) are described above. Ask in. After that, vertical writing and horizontal writing information is stored (step 7), character height data for each line (step 8), length data for each line (step 9), width data for each character on each line (step 10), Character space data (step 11) for each character in each line is stored from the RAM 409.

On the other hand, if the specified original document has been the subject of this processing before (step 1; Y), vertical writing and horizontal writing information is loaded (step 12), and thereafter,
Height data of each line (step 13), length data of each line (step 14), width data of each character of each line (step 15), character spacing data of each character of each line (step 16)
Are loaded from the RAM 409, respectively. Then, a character scaling process is performed based on the above data (step 1
7). Then, the process of matching the character spacing and line spacing (step 1
8) is performed and the processing is ended.

[0015]

According to the invention as set forth in claim 1, when a plurality of sentences having different character sizes and spaces are read by a scanner, the character sizes of the sentences are unified to form a sentence having an excellent appearance. Can be laid out. According to the invention described in claim 2, when a plurality of sentences having different character sizes, character spacings, and line spacings are read by a scanner, the character size, the character spacings, and the line spacings of the respective texts are unified to form a sentence having an excellent appearance. Can be laid out. According to the third aspect of the present invention, since the data such as the character size of the sentence once processed can be reused, the work of re-obtaining each data of the processed sentence can be omitted, and the processing speed can be improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system block diagram of a document processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing two sentences processed in this embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a process of determining a character size and the like.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a process of determining a length between lines.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a screen of the device according to this embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the document editing apparatus according to an embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 300 paper 320 message area 340 editing operation designation area 360 CRT screen 401 scanner 402 image recording unit 403 CPU 404 CRT frame memory 405 CRT 406 pointing device 409 RAM

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Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. An original reading unit for reading a plurality of originals as image information, a storage unit for storing image information of the original read by the original reading unit, and a display unit for displaying the information stored in the storage unit. , Document recognition means for recognizing that the read information is a document, character size determination means for determining the size of characters in the document recognized by the document recognition means, and document recognition for the document recognition means The character spacing determining means for determining the character spacing in the document and the editing means for unifying the character size and the character spacing of each document based on the data determined by the character size determining means and the character spacing determining means. A document editing device characterized by: 2. An original reading unit for reading a plurality of originals as image information, a storage unit for storing image information of the original read by the original reading unit, and a display unit for displaying the information stored in the storage unit. , Document recognition means for recognizing that the read information is a document, character size determination means for determining the size of characters in the document recognized by the document recognition means, and document recognition for the document recognition means A character spacing determination means for determining a character spacing in a document, a line spacing determination means for determining a line spacing in a document recognized as a document by the document recognition means, the character size determination means, a character spacing determination means and a line spacing It is characterized by comprising editing means for unifying the character size, character spacing, and line spacing of each document based on the data determined by the determining means. Document editing apparatus for the. 3. The document editing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising means for holding and reusing the information obtained by the character size determining means, the character spacing determining means, and the line spacing determining means.