Acquiring item values from printers based on notation form settings
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsHidehisa Omiya, Yuichi Sugiyama, Hideaki Watanabe
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Abstract
A control server to which a management apparatus and a printer configured to print settlement information and issues a receipt are connectable, includes a processor configured to acquire text data on the settlement information from the printer, acquires an item value of an item contained in the settlement information from the text data, acquires a setting relating to a notation form of the item value in the different notation forms depending on regions from the processor, and acquires the item value in the different notation forms depending on regions from the text data based on the setting.
Claims15
An information processing apparatus to which a control apparatus and a printer configured to print settlement information and issue a receipt are connectable, comprising a processor configured to
- acquire text data of the settlement information from the printer,
- transmit an HTML, file to the control apparatus, the HTML, file causing a user interface to be displayed at the control apparatus, wherein the user interface comprises at least one of the following fields associated with notation form(s):
- (1) a currency symbol field, (2) a decimal separator field, or (3) a grouping separator field, and each of the field(s) is configured to receive a user input of a setting related to a notation form of item values,
- receive the user input of the setting related to the notation form of item value from the control apparatus via the user interface,
- based on the received setting, acquire an item value of an item contained in the settlement information from the text data.
A control method for an information processing apparatus connectable to a printer configured to print settlement information and issues a receipt, comprising:
- acquiring text data on the settlement information from the printer,
- transmitting an HTML, file to the control apparatus, the HTML, file causing a user interface to be displayed at the control apparatus, wherein the user interface comprises at least one of the following fields associated with notation form(s):
- (1) a currency symbol field, (2) a decimal separator field, or (3) a grouping separator field, and each of the field, and each of the field(s) is configured to receive a user input of a setting related to a notation form of item values,
- receiving the user input of the setting related to the notation form of item value from the control apparatus via the user interface, and
- acquiring an item value of an item contained in the settlement information from the text data based on the received setting.
A non-transitory storage medium storing a program for an information processing apparatus executable by a processor of the information processing apparatus communicable with a printer configured to print settlement information and issues a receipt, the processor
- acquiring text data on the settlement information,
- transmitting an HTML, file to a control apparatus, the HTML, file causing a user interface to be displayed at the control apparatus, wherein the user interface comprises at least one of the following fields associated with notation form(s):
- (1) a currency symbol field, (2) a decimal separator field, or (3) a grouping separator field, and each of the field, and each of the field(s) is configured to receive a user input of a setting related to a notation form of item values,
- receiving the user input of the setting related to the notation form of item value from the control apparatus via the user interface, and
- acquiring an item value of an item contained in the settlement information from the text data based on the received setting.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.