US 8,555,152 B2Granted

Document management system and its method

AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.

InventorsNaohiro Furukawa, Hisashi Ikeda, Kosuke Konishi, Sunao Arai

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Abstract

An electronic pasting method for pasting electronic data in consideration of printed and written data, including updating pasted data when electronic data is updated after it is pasted. The electronic pasting method uses a detecting unit and a paste information updating unit. The detecting unit detects a paste stroke made over two print sheets filled to denote a user's pasting action with which part or whole of a printed matter of electronic document information is pasted on printed matter, then detects the pasting action from a set of paste strokes, thereby obtaining a paste-from document, a paste-to document, and a paste position according to the pasting action detected by the detecting unit. The paste information updating unit updates the e-document, the printed matter information, and the written information according to the above paste information.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A document management system, comprising:

an information management unit for storing document information of an e-document printable on paper;
an input unit for accepting pen stroke information written on said paper and transferring said information to said information management unit;
and
a computing unit,
wherein, upon creating a paste document on paper by pasting a paste-from printed document that is part or whole of a first e-document printed matter on a paste-to printed document that is a second e-document printed matter, said computing unit detects a paste stroke made over said paste-from printed document and said paste-to printed document from a pen stroke inputted from said input unit, where the paste stroke is a set of line segments, each of which goes through one or more sides of said paste-from printed document on said paste-to printed document,
wherein said computing unit detects, as a pasting work, said paste-from printed document, said paste-to printed document and a paste position of said paste-from printed document on said paste-to printed document from a set of said detected paste strokes, and
wherein said computing unit stores said paste-from printed document, said paste-to printed document, and said paste position information that are related to each other as paste information with respect to said detected pasting work.

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A document managing method employed for a document management system including an information management unit for storing document information of an e-document printable on paper and an input unit for accepting pen stroke information written on said paper and transferring said information to said information management unit, said method comprising:

a first step of detecting a paste stroke made over a paste-from printed document and a paste-to document from a digital pen stroke inputted from said input unit upon creating a paste document on paper by pasting a said paste-from printed document that is part or whole of a first e-document printed matter on said paste-to printed document that is a second e-document printed matter, where said paste stroke is a set of line segments, each of which goes through one or more sides of said paste-from document,
a second step of detecting, as a pasting work, said paste-from printed document, said paste-to printed document and a paste position of said paste-from printed document on said paste-to printed document from a set of said detected paste strokes;
and
a third step of storing said paste-from printed document, said paste-to printed document, and said paste position information that are related to each other in said information management unit as paste information with respect to said detected pasting work.

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