Office communications system
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1. An office communications system for the manipulation and/or transmission of image and text data via a communications network comprising in combination:
- a word processing terminal connected to a communications network for transmitting and receiving text in the form of character data via the communications network;
a telecopier connected to the communications network for transmitting and receiving image data via the communications network; and
means for permitting the editing of text in the form of image data supplied by said telecopier and the transmission of said text as character data via said communications network, said means including text converter means, connected between said telecopier and said word processing terminal, for converting image data of text pages received from said telecopier to character data of the code type used by said word processing terminal and for feeding the converted data to said word processing terminal, said text converter means including a character recognition unit having a data input connected to an output of said telecopier and a data output connected to an input of said word processing terminal, and a classifier memory for storing desired classifier data connected in data exchange with said character recognition unit.
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An office communications system wherein, for the manipulation and/or transmission of text available in an already printed form, a text converter is connected between a word processing terminal and a telecopier. The text converter includes a classifier memory which stores the desired classifier data and a character recognition unit wherein uncompressed image data received from the telecopier are evaluated by means of the classifier data and then transmitted as text data to the word processing terminal for further processing.
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1. An office communications system for the manipulation and/or transmission of image and text data via a communications network comprising in combination:
a word processing terminal connected to a communications network for transmitting and receiving text in the form of character data via the communications network;
a telecopier connected to the communications network for transmitting and receiving image data via the communications network; and
means for permitting the editing of text in the form of image data supplied by said telecopier and the transmission of said text as character data via said communications network, said means including text converter means, connected between said telecopier and said word processing terminal, for converting image data of text pages received from said telecopier to character data of the code type used by said word processing terminal and for feeding the converted data to said word processing terminal, said text converter means including a character recognition unit having a data input connected to an output of said telecopier and a data output connected to an input of said word processing terminal, and a classifier memory for storing desired classifier data connected in data exchange with said character recognition unit.- View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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