Document processing apparatus, printing system, document processing method, computer-readable medium and computer data signal

• US 8,269,997 B2
• Filed: 04/03/2009
• Issued: 09/18/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Kameshima, Tokuya
• Primary Examiner(s): Grant, II, Jerome
• Application Number:
  US12/418,049
• Publication Number:
  US 20100067040A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,264 Days
• Field of Search: 400/188, 400/582, 358/400, 358/401, 358/474, 358/498, 358/500, 358/501, 358/403, 358/405, 358/1.14, 358/1.12, 358/1.5
• US Class Current: 358/1.14
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1205 resulting in increased flexibility in print job configuration, e.g. job settings, print requirements, job tickets
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1242 Image or content composition onto a page
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/125 Page layout or assigning input pages onto output media, e.g. imposition
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1253 Configuration of print job parameters, e.g. using UI at the client
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/02 using printers
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 2215/0088 Collated printing

Abstract

A document processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit and an output unit. The acquiring unit acquires first document data containing page image data corresponding to pages of a document. Each page of the document has a first end and a second end opposite to the first end. The output unit outputs second document data in which an order or a direction of the page image data is changed, when the first document data contains first page image data indicating that an image is drawn in a first area corresponding to the first end of at least one of the pages of the document and second page image data indicating that an image is drawn in a second area corresponding to the second end of at least one of the pages of the document and when page numbers of the first and second page image data have a predetermined relationship.

Claims

1. A document processing apparatus comprising:

an acquiring unit that acquires first document data containing plural pieces of page image data corresponding to pages of a document, wherein each page of the document has a first end and a second end opposite to the first end; and

a document data output unit that outputs second document data in which an order or a direction of the plural pieces of page image data is changed, when the first document data contains first page image data indicating that an image is drawn in a first area corresponding to the first end of at least one of the pages of the document and second page image data indicating that an image is drawn in a second area corresponding to the second end of at least one of the pages of the document and when a page number of the first page image data and a page number of the second page image data have a predetermined relationship;

a first detection unit that detects the first page image data from the first document data;

a second detection unit that detects the second page image data from the first document data; and

a determination unit that determines whether or not the page number of the first page image data and the page number of the second page image data have the predetermined relationship, wherein

the document data output unit outputs the second document data in which the order or the direction of the plural pieces of page image data is changed based on a determination result by the determination unit.

2. The document processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the first detection unit detects the first page image data based on an amount of lines detected from the first area of each page, and

the second detection unit detects the second page image data based on an amount of lines detected from the second area of each page.

3. The document processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the first detection unit detects the first page image data based on the amount of lines that are detected from the first area of each page and extend in a predetermined direction, and

the second detection unit detects the second page image data based on the amount of lines that are detected from the second area of each page and extend in the predetermined direction.

4. The document processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the first detection unit detects the first page image data based on a density in the first area of each page, and

the second detection unit detects the second page image data based on a density in the second area of each page.

5. A printing system comprising:

an acquiring unit that acquires first document data containing plural pieces of page image data corresponding to pages of a document, wherein each page of the document has a first end and a second end opposite to the first end; and

a printing unit that prints second document data in which an order or a direction of the plural pieces of page image data is changed, when the first document data contains first page image data indicating that an image is drawn in a first area corresponding to the first end of at least one of the pages of the document and second page image data indicating that an image is drawn in a second area corresponding to the second end of at least one of the pages of the document and when a page number of the first page image data and a page number of the second page image data have a predetermined relationship;

a first detection unit that detects the first page image data from the first document data;

a second detection unit that detects the second page image data from the first document data; and

a determination unit that determines whether or not the page number of the first page image data and the page number of the second page image data have the predetermined relationship, wherein

the printing unit prints the second document data in which the order or the direction of the plural pieces of page image data is changed based on a determination result by the determination unit.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute document processing, the document processing comprising:

acquiring first document data containing plural pieces of page image data corresponding to pages of a document, wherein each page of the document has a first end and a second end opposite to the first end; and

outputting second document data in which an order or a direction of the plural pieces of page image data is changed, when the first document data contains first page image data indicating that an image is drawn in a first area corresponding to the first end of at least one of the pages of the document and second page image data indicating that an image is drawn in a second area corresponding to the second end of at least one of the pages of the document and when a page number of the first page image data and a page number of the second page image data have a predetermined relationship;

detecting the first page image data from the first document data;

detecting the second page image data from the first document data; and

determining whether or not the page number of the first page image data and the page number of the second page image data have the predetermined relationship, wherein

the second document data in which the order or the direction of the plural pieces of page image data is changed based on a result of the determining is output.

7. A document processing method comprising:

acquiring first document data containing plural pieces of page image data corresponding to pages of a document, wherein each page of the document has a first end and a second end opposite to the first end; and

outputting second document data in which an order or a direction of the plural pieces of page image data is changed, when the first document data contains first page image data indicating that an image is drawn in a first area corresponding to the first end of at least one of the pages of the document and second page image data indicating that an image is drawn in a second area corresponding to the second end of at least one of the pages of the document and when a page number of the first page image data and a page number of the second page image data have a predetermined relationship;

detecting the first page image data from the first document data;

detecting the second page image data from the first document data; and

determining whether or not the page number of the first page image data and the page number of the second page image data have the predetermined relationship, wherein

the second document data in which the order or the direction of the plural pieces of page image data is changed based on a result of the determining is output.