# US 2013/0159844 A1 · Data processing apparatus, non-temporary recording medium, and data processing method

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- Number: US 2013/0159844 A1
- Document ID: US20130159844A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 13/715,463
- Filed: 2012-12-14
- Published: 2013-06-20
- Earliest claimed: 2011-12-16
- Assignees: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Inventors: Takashi TAMURA
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20130159844A1

## CPC

- G06F 40/114: Pagination
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

## Abstract

A control unit of a personal computer (PC) 1 functions as a document data acquisition portion, an analysis portion, a page break processing portion, and an output portion. The document data acquisition portion acquires document data from a word processor or the like according to a data processing program stored in an HDD. The analysis portion analyzes characters constituting the acquired document data. When the analyzed characters indicate a first character, the page break processing portion performs page break processing at a position of the first character. The output portion outputs the document data that has undergone the page break processing to a printer driver portion.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A data processing apparatus comprising:
a document data acquisition portion that acquires document data;
an analysis portion that analyzes characters constituting the document data acquired by the document data acquisition portion;
a page break processing portion that when the character analyzed by the analysis portion indicates a predetermined first character, performs page break processing at a position of the first character; and
an output portion that outputs the document data that has undergone the page break processing by the page break processing portion.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The data processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:
an aggregation acceptance portion that accepts a setting for aggregation processing by an operator; and
an aggregation processing portion that executes an aggregation processing based on the setting accepted by the aggregation acceptance portion, on page-unit data presented by dividing the document data by the page break processing,
wherein the output portion outputs the document data that is constituted of the page-unit data and has undergone the aggregation processing by the aggregation processing portion.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The data processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the page break processing portion, when the first characters reside continuously in a predetermined number, performs the page break processing at a position where the first characters reside continuously in the predetermined number.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The data processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a reallocation processing portion that, of page-unit data, extracts page-unit data having predetermined second characters different from the first character that reside continuously in the same number thereof at least at any one of the head and the end of text and arrange the extracted page-unit data continuously.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The data processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a second reallocation portion that detects a number of rows that each page-unit data has and rearranges the page-unit data having the same number of the rows continuously.

### Claim 6 (depends on 4)

The data processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the aggregation processing portion aggregates reallocated page-unit data having the same number of the second characters or the rows on a predetermined number of different pages depending on the number of the second characters or the number of the rows.

### Claim 7

A non-temporary recording medium that records a data processing program configured to make a computer function and is computer-readable,
wherein the data processing program makes the computer function as:
a document data acquisition portion that acquires document data;
an analysis portion that analyzes characters constituting the document data acquired by the document data acquisition portion;
a page break processing portion that, when a character analyzed by the analysis portion indicates a predetermined first character, performs page break processing at a position of the first character; and
an output portion that outputs the document data that has undergone the page break processing by the page break processing portion.

### Claim 8

A data processing method comprising:
acquiring document data;
analyzing characters constituting the acquired document data;
when the analyzed characters indicate a predetermined first character, performing page break processing at a position of the first character; and
outputting the document data that has undergone the page break processing.