Document information management system

• US 20050114351A1
• Filed: 12/15/2004
• Published: 05/26/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/1997
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hisashi Ishijima, Takashi Yano, Yasuhiro Tabata
• Original Assignee: Hisashi Ishijima, Takashi Yano, Yasuhiro Tabata
• Inventors: Yano, Takashi, Tabata, Yasuhiro, Ishijima, Hisashi
• Granted Patent: US 7,512,874 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9554 by using bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching

Abstract

The document information management system according to the present invention comprises data base with a plurality of document files previously stored therein, a medium form having a document information section with document information recorded thereon and a bar code information section with electronic information corresponding to contents of the document information converted to bar code information and stored therein, a marking unit for giving a selection mark by selecting a desired word from a medium form, a reading unit for reading a selection mark and bar code information from a medium form with the selection mark given thereto, a retrieving unit for retrieving a corresponding document file from a data base using a word with a selection mark given thereto as a key word according to the selection mark and bar code information, and an output unit for outputting the retrieved document file as related information.

Claims

1. A document information management system comprising:

a data base with a plurality of document files previously stored therein;

a retrieving unit for retrieving a corresponding document file from said data base;

a marking pen unit having a marking pen for giving a marking command of previously prepared patterns to one or more buttons for a hypertext document, one or more first words other than one of said buttons for the hypertext document, and one or more second words in a non-hypertext document each displayed on said display unit, wherein said buttons represent hypertext links;

a display unit having a document section and an electronic section, the document section being configured for displaying hypertext documents and non-hypertext documents, and the electronic section being configured for displaying machine readable codes that include an encoded raster image of the contents, and comparing the hypertext document that has the marking command with the raster image decoded from the machine readable codes; and

an output unit for outputting a document file retrieved with said retrieving unit as related information.

2. The document information management system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a medium form having a document information section with document information including at least a word recorded therein and a bar code information section with electronic information equivalent to contents of said document information having been converted to bar code information recorded therein.

3. The document information management system according to claim 2, further comprising:

a reading unit for reading from said medium form with desired words selected from document information and given selection marks by an appropriate marker respectively recorded therein, said selection marks and bar code information.

4. The document information management system according to claim 2, wherein said electronic information is described with a hypertext describing language including at least one of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Portable Document Format (PDF), and extensible Markup Language (XML).