SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCRIPT LANGUAGE-BASED DOCUMENT PROCESSING

• US 20090204879A1
• Filed: 02/07/2008
• Published: 08/13/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation), Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation), Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Wei, Hongfeng, Wang, Jianxin, Natarajan, Giri, Su, William, Suleiman, Mohammad
• Application Number:
  US12/027,436
• Publication Number:
  US 20090204879A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/200
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/33 Querying

Abstract

The subject application is directed to a system and method for script language-based document processing. First, an electronic document inclusive of scripted commands is received. Scripted commands are then parsed from the received electronic document. At least one electronic document is then retrieved from an associated storage in accordance with the parsing of the scripted commands from the received electronic document. Thereafter, at least one document processing operation is performed on each retrieved electronic document in accordance with the scripted command parsed from the received electronic document.

Claims

1. A script language-based document processing system comprising:

means adapted for receiving an electronic document inclusive of scripted commands;

parsing means adapted for parsing scripted commands of a received electronic document;

retrieval means adapted for retrieving at least one electronic document from an associated storage in accordance with a parsing of scripted commands by the parsing means; and

means adapted for performing at least one document processing operation on each retrieved electronic document in accordance with parsed commands.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the scripted commands include search criteria, and wherein the retrieval means further includes means adapted for retrieving the at least one electronic document in accordance with a comparison with the search criteria.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the scripted commands include configuration data adapted for setting a configuration of an associated document processing device.

4. The system of claim 1 further comprising:

means adapted for testing received electronic document data for errors in scripted commands therein; and

means adapted for selectively operating the retrieval means in accordance with an output of the testing means.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the parsed commands include instructions for performing at least one document processing operation selected from a set comprising printing, copying, optical character recognition, facsimile transmission and electronic mail transmission.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the scripted commands include template data adapted for creating a scan template associated with at least one document scanning operation.

7. A method for script language-based document processing comprising the steps of:

receiving an electronic document inclusive of scripted commands;

parsing scripted commands of a received electronic document;

retrieving at least one electronic document from an associated storage in accordance with a parsing of scripted commands; and

performing at least one document processing operation on each retrieved electronic document in accordance with parsed commands.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the scripted commands include search criteria, and wherein retrieving the at least one electronic document is in accordance with a comparison with the search criteria.

9. The method of claim 7 wherein the scripted commands include configuration data adapted for setting a configuration of an associated document processing device.

10. The method of claim 7 further comprising the steps of:

testing received electronic document data for errors in scripted commands therein; and

selectively retrieving the at least one electronic document from the associated storage in accordance with an output of the testing.

11. The method of claim 7 wherein the parsed commands include instructions for performing at least one document processing operation selected from a set comprising printing, copying, optical character recognition, facsimile transmission, and electronic mail transmission.

12. The method of claim 7 wherein the scripted commands include template data adapted for creating a scan template associated with at least one document scanning operation.