Information processing apparatus and method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTooru Ishizaki
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus and method for analyzing structured document data and outputting the analytical results in units of structure. The apparatus detects a specific character string indicating a first data form contained in the structured document data. When the specific character string is detected, data corresponding to this specific character string is converted to a second data form that is different from the first data form and the data of the second data form is stored.
Claims10
An information processing apparatus for processing structured document data, comprising:
- a reception unit configured to receive structured document data;
- a character-string detection unit configured to detect a character string, which is indicative of data that has been described in text-data form that is a first data form, contained in the structured document data;
- a data conversion unit configured to execute processing, in parallel with processing for receiving the structured document data, and to convert data read in following the character string, which has been detected by said character-string detection unit, into data that has been described in binary-data form that is a second data form;
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- a storage unit configured to store in a memory the data that has been described in the binary-data form obtained by the conversion by said data conversion unit.
An information processing method for processing a structured document, comprising:
- a reception step of receiving structured document data by receiving means;
- a character-string detection step of detecting a character string, which is indicative of data that has been described in text-data form that is a first data form, contained in the structured document data;
- a data conversion step of executing processing, in parallel with processing for receiving the structured document data, for converting data read in following the character string, which has been detected in said character-string detection step, into data that has been described in binary-data form that is a second data form;
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- a binary-data storage step of storing in a memory the data that has been described in the binary-data form obtained by the conversion at said data conversion step.
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