Document registration system, method thereof, program thereof and storage medium thereof

• US 20030051208A1
• Filed: 09/06/2002
• Published: 03/13/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Yoshida, Tomofumi, Matsumoto, Naoyuki, Todaka, Shinji, Yahara, Masashi, Satake, Yasunori
• Granted Patent: US 7,434,161 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/500
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00326 with a data reading, recognizing or recording apparatus, e.g. with a bar-code apparatus arrangements for the associated working of recording or reproducing apparatus with related apparatus G11B31/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00331 with an apparatus performing optical character recognition character recognition G06V30/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00334 with an apparatus processing barcodes or the like arrangements for sensing record carriers G06K7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2179 Interfaces allowing access to a plurality of users, e.g. connection to electronic image libraries
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2187 with image input from a plurality of different locations or from a non-central location, e.g. from one or more users

Abstract

A document registration system, for registering a document image transmitted from an external device by a push technique in a document management system without any labor, acquires document image data transmitted from the external device by the push technique, automatically executes recognition processing of the acquired document image data; and automatically registers the document image data in the document management system together with a result of the recognition as an index.

Claims

1. A document registration system comprising:

acquisition means for acquiring document image data transmitted from an external device by a push technique;

recognition means for automatically executing recognition processing of the acquired document image data; and

registration means for automatically registering the document image data in a document management system together with a result of the recognition made by said recognition means as an index.

2. A document registration system according to claim 1, wherein said acquisition means acquires the document image data transmitted by the push technique from any one of a plurality of external devices connected via a network to said document registration system.

3. A document registration system according to claim 1, wherein said recognition means includes form identifying means for automatically identifying a registration form judged coincident with the acquired document image data, and

said recognition means extracts an area corresponding to the document image data on a basis of an area set in the identified registration form, and executes the recognition process of the extracted area.

4. A document registration system according to claim 1, wherein said acquisition means periodically searches a predetermined folder cached with the document image data transmitted from the external device and, if new document image data are cached, acquires the same new document image data.

5. A document registration system according to claim 4, wherein the recognition processing by said recognition means and the registration processing by said registration means are each defined as processing corresponding to the folder cached with the document image data transmitted.

6. A document registration system according to claim 1, wherein the recognition processing executed by said recognition means includes at least any one of character recognition processing and barcode recognition processing.

7. A document registration system according to claim 1, further comprising setting means for setting an automatic processing condition used when registering, in said document management system, the document image data together with a result, as an index, of the automatic recognition processing of the document image data.

8. A document registration system according to claim 7, further comprising:

condition judging means for judging whether the document image data meet the automatic processing condition;

storage means for storing the document image data within said document registration system if said condition judging means judges that the document image data do not meet the automatic processing condition; and

manual input registration means for registering the stored document image data in said document management system in a way that attaches an index by a manual input of the user.

9. A document registration system according to claim 3, further comprising:

storage means for storing the document image data within said document registration system if said form identifying means can not identify the registration form judged coincident; and

manual input registration means for registering the stored document image data in said document management system in a way that attaches an index by a manual input of the user.

10. A document registration system according to claim 1, wherein in said document registration system, the document image data and the index are stored by use of a worksheet, and, when said registration means registers the document image data in said document management system, executes the registration processing of the registration target document image data by use of the index mapping thereto in the worksheet.

11. A document registration system according to claim 7, wherein said registration means registers in a document management system specified based on the automatic processing condition among a plurality of document management systems connected via the network to said document registration system.

12. A document registration method for controlling a document registration system for automatically registering, in a document management system, document image data transmitted from an external device by a push technique, said method comprising:

an acquiring step of acquiring document image data transmitted from an external device by a push technique;

a recognizing step of automatically executing recognition processing of the acquired document image data; and

a registering step of automatically registering the document image data in a document management system together with a result of the recognition made in said recognizing step as an index.

13. A document registration program, executable by a computer, for controlling a document registration system for automatically registering, in a document management system, document image data transmitted from an external device by a push technique, said program comprising:

a program code for an acquiring step of acquiring document image data transmitted from an external device by a push technique;

a program code for a recognizing step of automatically executing recognition processing of the acquired document image data; and

a program code for a registering step of automatically registering the document image data in a document management system together with a result of the recognition made in said recognizing step as an index.

14. A storage medium stored with a document registration program, executable by a computer, for controlling a document registration system for automatically registering, in a document management system, document image data transmitted from an external device by a push technique, said program comprising:

a program code for an acquiring step of acquiring document image data transmitted from an external device by a push technique;

a program code for a recognizing step of automatically executing recognition processing of the acquired document image data; and

a program code for a registering step of automatically registering the document image data in a document management system together with a result of the recognition made in said recognizing step as an index.