US 5,966,718 AGranted

Document processing system with enable feature

AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

InventorTakao Shibata

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Abstract

In a document processing system which performs document processing such as edit and display for document data, a plurality of preset document roles are stored in role definition section, a plurality of preset document processing scenes are stored in scene definition section, information indicating whether or not document processing is enabled corresponding to a pair of a role and a scene is stored in operation definition section, and event processing section gets the corresponding role from the role definition section and the corresponding scene from the scene definition section based on document processing information entered through an input section and gets information indicating whether or not the corresponding document processing such as edit or display is enabled from the operation definition section. The event processing section causes document processing sections to execute document processing of the document to be processed, based on the gotten information indicating whether or not the document processing is enabled.

Claims4

Dependent claims

A system for performing document processing such as editing and displaying document data, said system comprising:

means for inputting document processing information;
role definition means for storing a plurality of preset document roles, each related to an area within the document;
scene definition means for storing a plurality of preset document processing scenes;
operation definition means for storing information indicating whether or not document processing is enabled for a role and a corresponding scene;
event processing means comprising
means for getting a role corresponding to a document to be processed from said role definition means,
means for getting the corresponding scene from said scene definition means based on the input document processing information, and
means for getting information indicating whether or not the corresponding document processing is enabled from said operation definition means, and
means for inquiring of the role definition means the role information for an area;
and
means for executing document processing based on the information indicating whether or not the document processing is enabled, gotten by said event processing means.

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