Image forming apparatus for detecting index data of document data, and control method and program product for the same

• US 20070242282A1
• Filed: 07/12/2006
• Published: 10/18/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Hashimoto, Yasuhiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,634,100 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.200
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00413 using menus, i.e. presenting the user with a plurality of selectable options H04N1/00464 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00432 using tabs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00482 outputting a plurality of job set-up options, e.g. number of copies, paper size or resolution
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00957 Compiling jobs, e.g. for batch processing H04N1/3208 takes precedence; program code compilation G06F8/41
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3247 Data linking a set of images to one another, e.g. sequence, burst or continuous capture mode

Abstract

An image forming apparatus is disclosed, in which the index data of a document data is detected, and based on the particular index data, the contents of each index are displayed. Based on this display, an index is selected and the portion of the document data corresponding to the selected index is printed.

Claims

1. An image forming apparatus comprising:

a holder for holding document data;

a printing unit for printing the document data held in the holder;

a detector for detecting index data of the document data held in the holder;

a display unit for displaying contents of each index of the document data based on the index data detected by said detector; and

a selector for selecting the index with the contents thereof displayed on said display unit, wherein

said printing unit prints a portion of the document data corresponding to the index selected by the selector.

2. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said printing unit prints the document data on condition that the index is selected by said selector in the case where said detector detects the index data from the document data held in the holder.

3. The image forming apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a receiver for receiving the document data through a network, wherein

said printing unit prints the document data on condition that the index is selected by said selector in the case where the document data held in the holder is input through the receiver, and

said detector determines that the index data is included in the document data in the case where a predetermined flag is attached to the document data input through said receiver.

4. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said detector detects a bookmark data included in the document data in the case where the document data is in a portable document format.

5. The image forming apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

said display unit displays a title of the bookmark data included in the document data as the contents of the index.

6. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said detector detects a header tag included in a document data in the case where the document data is selected one of an extensible markup language format and a hypertext markup language.

7. The image forming apparatus according to claim 6, wherein

said display unit displays the contents of the header tag included in the document data as the contents of the index.

8. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said selector selects a plurality of indexes from the indexes with the contents thereof displayed in said display unit, and

said printing unit receives a print setting for each index selected by said selector.

9. The image forming apparatus according to claim 8, wherein

a given page of the document data held in the holder and containing the data corresponding to different print settings is divided into different pages for different print settings, respectively.

10. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said detector analyzes the sentence structure of the document data based on the index data of the document data held in said holder, and

wherein the sentence structure has layer structure and said display unit displays the contents of the index in a tree structure based on the sentence structure.

11. The image forming apparatus according to claim 10, wherein

said printing unit prints the document data held in the holder from a starting point of a main body corresponding to the index selected by said selector to a starting point of the main body corresponding to the next index in the same layer as the selected index.

12. The image forming apparatus according to claim 11, wherein

said printing unit receives the print setting for each index selected by said selector, and in the presence of a plurality of print settings for the same index of the document data, the data is printed giving priority to the print setting for the lower layer.

13. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an output unit for outputting by printing on the paper the contents of the index detected by said detector, in a manner capable of designating the index; and

an input unit for receiving the image input, wherein

said selector extracts the index designated for the paper output from the output unit based on the image received by the input unit and selects the extracted index.

14. A program product for controlling and causing the image forming apparatus to execute the steps of:

holding document data;

detecting index data of the document data held;

displaying contents of each index of the document data based on the index data detected;

selecting the index of which the contents are displayed; and

printing a portion of the document data held corresponding to the selected index.

15. A method of controlling the image forming apparatus, comprising the steps of

holding document data;

detecting index data of the document data held;

displaying contents of each index of the document data based on the index data detected;

selecting the index data with the contents thereof displayed; and

printing a portion of the document data held corresponding to the selected index.

16. The method of controlling the image forming apparatus according to claim 15, wherein

said printing step includes the step of printing the document data on condition that the index is selected in the case where the index data is detected from the document data held.

17. The method of controlling the image forming apparatus according to claim 15, wherein

said detection step includes the step of detecting the bookmark data included in the document data in the case where the document data is in a portable document format.

18. The method of controlling the image forming apparatus according to claim 15, wherein

said detection step includes the step of detecting a header index tag included in the document data in the case where the document data is selected one of an extensible markup language format data and a hypertext markup language document data.

19. The method of controlling the image forming apparatus according to claim 15, wherein

said select step includes the step of selecting a plurality of indexes from the indexes with the contents thereof displayed in the display step, and

said printing step includes the step of receiving the print setting for each selected index.

20. The method of controlling the image forming apparatus according to claim 15, wherein

said detection step includes the step of analyzing the sentence structure of the document data based on the index data of the document data held, and

said display step includes the step of displaying the contents of the index in a tree structure based on the sentence structure analyzed.