US 2003/0121006 A1Published application

Document information management system

AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.

InventorsYasuhiro Tabata, Takashi Yano, Hisashi Ishijima

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Abstract

The document information management system according to the present invention comprises a hypertext preparing unit for preparing a hypertext; a file unit for storing therein correlated information files; a medium form information preparing unit for preparing medium for information from information in the hypertext; a medium form output unit for outputting the recording paper as a medium form; a selection information adding unit for adding selection information; a reader for reading the selection information and linkage information from the medium form; a retrieving unit for retrieving an appropriate correlated information file; and an output unit for outputting the correlated information file retrieved by the retrieving unit.

Claims25

Dependent claims

A document information management system comprising:

a hypertext preparing unit for preparing a hypertext;
a file unit for storing therein hypertexts prepared by said hypertext preparing unit and correlated information files correlated to each other through link structure of said hypertexts;
a medium form information preparing unit for receiving said hypertext, preparing image extraction information by extracting only image data from information concerning said hypertext, preparing particular described information as well as linkage information for linking said described information to a correlated information file in said file unit from information having link structure such as a button, a switch, or an icon of information concerning said hypertext, and preparing medium form information by synthesizing said image extraction information, described information, and linkage information;
a medium form output unit for printing said medium form information on recording paper and outputting the recording paper as a medium form;
a selection information adding unit for adding selection information for selecting a desired described information from those printed on said medium form;
a reader for reading said selection information and linkage information from said medium form with the selection information added via said selection information adding unit;
a retrieving unit for retrieving an appropriate correlated information file from said file unit according to the selection information as well as linkage information read by said reader;
and
an output unit for outputting the correlated information file retrieved by said retrieving unit.

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A document information management system comprising:

a plurality of file units each storing therein hypertexts and correlated information files correlated to each other through link structure of said hypertexts;
a medium form information preparing unit for receiving said hypertext and preparing image extraction information by extracting only image data from the information concerning said hypertext, preparing particular described information as well as linkage information for linking said described information to a correlated information file in a particular file unit among said plurality of file units from the information having link structure such as a button, a switch, or an icon of the information concerning said hypertext, further preparing file unit specifying information for specifying a file unit in which the appropriate hypertext is stored from said plurality of file units, and preparing the medium form information by synthesizing said image extraction information, described information, linkage information, and file unit specifying information;
a medium form output unit for printing said medium form information on recording paper and outputting the recording paper as a medium form;
a selection information adding unit for adding selection information for selecting desired described information from those printed on said medium form;
a reader for reading said selection information, linkage information, and file unit specifying information from said medium form with the selection information added via said selection information adding unit;
a retrieving unit for retrieving an appropriate correlated information file from an appropriate file unit among said plurality of file units according to the selection information, linkage information, and file unit specifying information read by said reader;
and
an output unit for outputting the correlated information file retrieved by said retrieving unit.

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A document information management system comprising:

a file unit with information concerning particular words, sentences, symbols, or graphics previously stored therein as a correlated information file;
a medium form with at least one described information comprising any of words, sentences, symbols, and graphics, linkage information for linking said described information to the correlated information file in said file unit, and selection information for selecting particular described information among said described information recorded thereon;
a correlated information identifying unit for reading image data from said medium form, identifying the correlated information file selected as described above according to the selection information as well as the linkage information in said read image data, and outputting an address of an appropriate correlated information file;
a correlated information file retrieving unit for receiving an address of a correlated information file from said correlated information identifying unit and retrieving the appropriate correlated information file from said file unit according to the address of said correlated information file;
and
an output unit for outputting the correlated information file retrieved by said correlated information file retrieving unit.

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A document information management system comprising:

a file unit with information relating to particular words, sentences, symbols, or graphics previously stored therein as a correlated information file;
a medium form with at least one described information comprising any of words, sentences, symbols, and graphics, linkage information for linking said described information to the correlated information file in said file unit, and selection information for selecting particular described information among said described information recorded thereon;
a correlated information identifying unit for reading image data from said medium form, identifying the selected correlated information file according to the selection information as well as linkage information in said read image data, and outputting an address of an appropriate correlated information file;
a correlated information file retrieving unit for receiving an address of the correlated information file from said correlated information identifying unit and retrieving an appropriate correlated information file from said file unit according to the address of said correlated information file;
an image data reader for reading image data from said medium form;
a correlated information file identifying/retrieving unit for receiving image data from said image data reader, identifying an address of the selected correlated information file according to the selection information and linkage information in said image data, and retrieving the appropriate correlated information file from said file unit;
and
an output unit for outputting the correlated information file retrieved by said correlated information file retrieving unit or said correlated information file identifying/retrieving unit.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/361,771Filed 11 Feb 2003
Priority: JP 9-03190117 Feb 1997
Published: 26 Jun 2003
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

G06F 40/169
Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting: annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
G06F 40/131
Use of codes for handling textual entities: fragmentation of text files, e.g. creating reusable text-blocks; Linking to fragments, e.g. using…
G06F 40/171
Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting: by use of digital ink
G06F
Computing and data processing

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