Electronic magazine generation system, electronic magazine generation method, and electronic magazine generation program

An electronic magazine generation method of processing original information for creating a magazine which is a paper medium so as to generate an electronic magazine for being displayed on a display apparatus of a user, the method comprising:

• causing a computer to perform:
• recording a plurality of sorting information pieces into which each piece of original information for generating a plurality of magazines is divided in the unit of themes;
• extracting image information and text information included in each page of the sorting information in the unit of the pages;
• analyzing information on a target object included in the image information and the text information so as to select image information which is important in at least one magazine which is a paper medium as a main image from an image information group which is a set of image information pieces having a same target object, and selecting the other image information pieces included in the image information group as related images corresponding to the main image;
• controlling correspondence information obtained by correlating image information and text information related to the same target object with each other in the unit of the pages on the basis of the information on the target object analyzed by the image selection unit;
• selecting text information corresponding to the main image on the basis of the correspondence information, and extracting a headline text string from the selected text information;
• recording a plurality of background images representing backgrounds of the sorting information;
• controlling display sizes of the main image and the related image and font sizes of the text information and the text string as size information in accordance with a display region of the display apparatus, and creating a main page in which the main image and the text string are arranged on the background image on the basis of the controlled correspondence information;
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• creating a detailed information page for displaying a related image of a selected main image and text information having correspondence information with the related image when the main image is selected by the user on the main page.

A computer readable recording medium recording thereon an electronic magazine generation program for processing original information for creating a magazine which is a paper medium so as to generate an electronic magazine for being displayed on a display apparatus of a user, the program causing the computer to realize:

• a function of recording a plurality of sorting information pieces into which each piece of original information for generating a plurality of magazines is divided in the unit of themes;
• a function of extracting image information and text information included in each page of the sorting information in the unit of the pages;
• a function of analyzing information on a target object included in the image information and the text information so as to select image information which is important in at least one magazine which is a paper medium as a main image from an image information group which is a set of image information pieces having a same target object, and selecting the other image information pieces included in the image information group as related images corresponding to the main image;
• a function of controlling correspondence information obtained by correlating image information and text information related to the same target object with each other in the unit of the pages on the basis of the information on the target object analyzed by the image selection unit;
• a function of selecting text information corresponding to the main image on the basis of the correspondence information, and extracting a headline text string from the selected text information;
• a function of recording a plurality of background images representing backgrounds of the sorting information;
• a function of controlling display sizes of the main image and the related image and font sizes of the text information and the text string as size information in accordance with a display region of the display apparatus, and creating a main page in which the main image and the text string are arranged on the background image on the basis of the controlled correspondence information;
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• a function of creating a detailed information page for displaying a related image of a selected main image and text information having correspondence information with the related image when the main image is selected by the user on the main page.