Document processing system providing facilitated modification of document images

A document processing system comprising:

• document image holding memory means for storing a document image defined by image data including at least some non-character image data;
• target area instruction means for designating target areas to be edited each including at least a portion of the non-character image data for editing in the document image stored in said document image memory means, said target area instruction means further comprising a display which displays respective model images which have been prepared for respective kinds of edit target areas, and wherein the displayed model images guide a user on how to instruct the edit target area;
• identifier providing means for giving an identifier to each of the edit target areas instructed by said target area means;
• design instruction means for instructing a desired document design for an output document;
• parameter decision means for deciding document design parameters for each of the edit target areas in accordance with an instruction from said design instruction means and said identifier for each of the edit target areas;
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• output image generation means for processing the document image in accordance with the parameters decided by said parameter decision means.

A document processing system comprising:

• document image input means for inputting a document image defined by image data including at least some non-character image data;
• target area instruction means for designating a targeted area including at least a portion of the non-character image data for editing in the document image input from said document image input image means, said target area instruction means further comprising a display which displays respective model images which have been prepared for respective kinds of edit target areas and wherein the displayed model images guide a user on how to instruct the target area;
• identifier processing means for giving an identifier to each of the edit target areas instructed by said target area instruction means;
• design instruction means for instructing a desired document design to an output document;
• parameter decision means for deciding document design parameters in accordance with an instruction by said design instruction means and said identifier for each of the edit target areas;
• and;
• output image generation means for processing the document image in accordance with the parameters decided by said parameter decision means.

A document processing system comprising:

• document image holding means for storing data representing a document image;
• target area instruction means designating, for editing, an image target area in the document image stored in said document image holding means, said target area instruction means further comprising a display which displays respective model images which have been prepared for respective kinds of image target areas, and wherein the displaced model images guide a user on how to instruct the image target area;
• target area extraction means for extracting the image target area designated by said target area instruction means from the document image;
• design instruction means for generating at least a selected one of a plurality of design instructions to generate a desired document design for an output document;
• design parameter decision means for determining values of design parameters determined in accordance with the one design instruction for the document design in the image target area and operative to modify the image data in the image target area;
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• output image generation means for processing and modifying, in accordance with the parameter values determined by said design parameter design means, the document image data in the image target area extracted by said target area extraction means thereby to produce an output image.

A document processing system comprising:

• document image holding memory means for storing a document image;
• target area instruction means designating, for editing, image target areas in the document image stored in said document image memory means, said target area instruction meads further comprising a display which displays respective model images which have been prepared for respective kinds of image target areas, and wherein the displayed model images guide a user on how to instruct the image target area;
• identifier providing means applying an identifier to each of the image target areas instructed by said target area instruction means;
• design instruction means for generating at least a selected one of a plurality of design instructions to generate a desired document design for an output document;
• parameter decision means for deciding values of document design parameters for each image target area in accordance with at least one instruction from said design instruction means and the associated one of the identifiers for the image target areas;
• and
• output image generation means for processing and modifying the document image in accordance with the parameters decided by said parameter decision means.

A document processing system comprising:

• document image input means for inputting a document image;
• target area instruction means designating, for editing, image target areas in the document imager said target area instruction means further comprising a display which displays respective model images which have been prepared for respective kinds of image target areas, and wherein the displayed model images guide a user on how to instruct the image target area;
• identifier processing means applying an identifier to each of the image target areas instructed by said target area instruction means;
• design instruction means for generating at least a selected one of a plurality of design instructions to generate a desired design for an output document;
• parameter decision means for deciding values of document design parameters in accordance with at least one instruction from said design instruction means and said identifiers for said image target areas;
• and
• output image generation means for processing and modifying the document image in accordance with the parameters decided by said parameter decision means.