Image processing device

An image processing device configured to transmit a data transfer request to a device and receive requested data, the image processing device comprising:

• a unit configured to read a document and to generate original image data;
• a unit configured to input transfer size information;
• a unit configured to detect information on a device that stores a document file including data about the document from at least part of an area of the original image data;
• a unit configured to transmit, in accordance with the information detected, a transfer request of the document file and the transfer size information to the device that stores the document file;
• a unit configured to receive the requested document file the device that stores the document file edits in accordance with the transfer size information;
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• a unit configured to extract at least part of the original image data in accordance with metadata included in the document file received, and to generate an image that combines the extracted original image data with an image corresponding to the vector data included in the document file received.

A method of transmitting requested data to the image processing device, the method comprising the steps of:

• analyzing page description language data, and generating vector data and metadata from analysis results;
• storing a document file which is recorded by the vector data and the metadata associating;
• retrieving a requested document file from the stored document file in accordance with a transfer request of the document file received from the image processing device;
• editing the metadata recorded in the document file in accordance with transfer size information received from the image processing device, and editing the vector data in accordance with the edited metadata;
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• transmitting the edited metadata and vector data to the image processing device.

A method of transmitting a data transfer request to a device and receiving data requested, the method comprising the steps of:

• reading a document and generating original image data;
• inputting transfer size information;
• detecting information on a device that stores a document file including data about the document from at least part of an area of the original image data;
• transmitting, in accordance with the information detected, a transfer request of the document file and the transfer size information to the device that stores the document file;
• receiving the requested document file the device that stores the document file edits in accordance with the transfer size information;
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• extracting at least part of the original image data in accordance with metadata included in the document file received, and generating an image that combines the extracted original image data with an image corresponding to the vector data included in the document file received.

A device configured to transmit requested data to the image processing device, the device comprising:

• a unit configured to analyze page description language data, and to generate vector data and metadata from analysis results;
• a unit configured to store a document file which is recorded by the vector data and the metadata associating;
• a unit configured to search a requested document file from the stored document file in accordance with the information received from the image processing device;
• a editing unit configured to edit the metadata recorded in the document file in accordance with the image quality or rate information received from the image processing device, and to edit the vector data in accordance with the edited metadata;
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• a unit configured to transmit the edited metadata and vector data to the image processing device.