Image merging and displaying apparatus and method

An image merging and displaying apparatus for forming an image to be displayed on a display, comprising;

• a document editing device configured to edit a document by generating document image data;
• a data form information obtaining device configured to obtain data form information of said document image data generated by said document editing device;
• a character data determining device configured to determine if said document image data is constituted by character data not having layout information based upon said data form information;
• a text character data obtaining device configured to obtain text character data from said document-editing device;
• a sheet image data generating device configured to generate sheet image data constituting a sheet image having prescribed layout information when said text character data not including layout information is obtained;
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• an image data merging device configured to merge said document image data with said sheet image data by arranging said text character data on said sheet image data based upon said layout information;
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• a reducing device configured to reduce an image constituted by the merged image data to form said image to be displayed on said display.

An image merging and displaying method for forming an image to be displayed on a display, comprising steps of:

• editing document image by generating document image data;
• obtaining said document image data from said document editing device;
• generating sheet image data constituting a sheet image having a size in accordance with said document image;
• merging document image data with said sheet image data, and
• reducing an image constituted by the merged image data to form said image to be displayed on said display.

An image merging and displaying method for forming an image to be displayed on a display, comprising steps of:

• editing document image by generating document image data;
• obtaining said document image data from said document editing device;
• obtaining data form information of said document image data;
• determining if said document image is constituted by character data having non layout information based upon said data form information;
• obtaining text character data from said document editing device when said data form information does not includes said layout information;
• generating sheet image data having a prescribed layout information;
• merging said document image data with said sheet image data by arranging said text character data on said sheet image data based upon said layout information;
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• reducing an image constituted by thus merged image data to for an image to be displayed on said display.