JPH021354A - Recording device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make possible the printing of character information, characters of which are easily recognized by a machine, by providing a recording means which develops entered character information into a pattern and record it based on pattern information for character recognition stored in a storage means. CONSTITUTION:Document data is read from a document memory 108. Next, this document data which is read is developed into a pattern using a character font memory for a machine 104. Then this character data developed in the form of a pattern is stored in an image memory 109 and then is used for printing by a printing section 106. Thus the character can be easily recognized by a machine by printing with a character pattern which is easily recognized by the machine.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a recording device capable of converting document information into a machine-recognizable character font pattern and outputting the converted character font pattern.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, when document information is printed using a printing device such as a printer, the document information is pattern-developed using a font memory, etc., based on the character codes that make up the document information, and then printed. are doing. The character string of the document information printed in this way is composed of character fonts that can be recognized by humans.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, although the character strings printed in this manner can be easily recognized by the human eye, when a machine such as a character recognition device attempts to recognize them, the character strings formed in the character pattern are Since each pixel is small, it is difficult to distinguish, and it is also susceptible to the effects of dirt on the characters, inclinations of the lines that make up the characters, etc., so there is a problem that erroneous recognition is likely to occur. Furthermore, since a character has a large number of pixels, there is a problem that the number of pixels to be determined increases during character recognition, and the process for determining a character code from a pixel array becomes complicated.

The present invention has been made in view of the above conventional example, and an object of the present invention is to provide a recording device that can print document information that can be easily recognized by a machine by printing a character pattern that is easy to recognize by a character recognition device. shall be.

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, the recording device of the present invention has the following configuration. That is, it is a recording device that inputs document information in the form of a code, converts it into pattern information, and outputs it, comprising a storage means for storing pattern information for character recognition, and a storage means for storing the input document information based on the pattern information from the storage means. and recording means for developing and recording patterns.

According to another claim, the present invention further includes character recognition means for reading a document image and recognizing characters on the document, and display means for displaying and outputting the recognized document information in a human-recognizable character pattern.

[Operation] The above configuration operates to develop and record manually-generated document information into a pattern based on the pattern information from the storage means that stores pattern information for character recognition.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the apparatus operates to read a document image, perform character recognition on the document, and display and output the recognized document information in a character pattern that can be recognized by humans.

[Embodiments] Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

[Description of Image Output Apparatus (FIG. 1)] FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of an image output apparatus according to an embodiment.

In FIG. 1, 100 is a CPU such as a microprocessor, which controls the entire apparatus according to a control program stored in a program memory 101. 1
02 is a RAM that serves as a working memory for the CPU 100 and temporarily stores various data. 103 is a character font memory that stores character fonts that can be recognized by humans in correspondence with character codes, and 104 is a character font for machines that is composed of character patterns that are easy to be recognized by general character recognition devices, in correspondence with character codes. This is a machine character font memory that stores fonts.

105 is a character recognition unit that recognizes characters in document information printed using the machine character font memory 104; 106 is a printing unit that prints out the document information etc. whose pattern has been developed in the font memory 103 or 104; 107 is a league unit that photoelectrically reads and inputs a document image, and 108 is a document memory that stores document information composed of a collection of character codes. An image memory 109 stores image data inputted from the league section 107 or image data outputted to the printing section 106 as image data. 1
10 is the image data output to the printing section 106 and the league section 1;
This is a display unit that outputs image data from 07 and various messages to the operator.

[Operation Description (Figures 2 to 5)] Figure 2 is a flowchart showing the printing process in this image output device, and Figure 3 is the process of photoelectrically reading and inputting a printed document for character recognition. In this flowchart, all processing programs are stored in program memory 1.
It is stored in 01.

In step S1, document data is read from the document memory 108, and in step S2, it is determined whether this document information is to be printed in a normal character pattern that can be recognized by humans or in a character pattern that can be recognized by a machine.

When printing with a pattern for character recognition, the process advances to step S3 and the pattern is developed using the machine character font memory 104. On the other hand, when printing with a character pattern that can be recognized by humans, the process advances to step S4, where the character font memory 103 is used to develop a normal character pattern.

In step S5, the pattern-developed document information is stored in the image memory 109, and in step S5, the printing unit 1
Printing is performed using 06. In this way, this image output device can print not only normal character patterns that humans can recognize, but also character patterns for character recognition.

Examples of this are shown in Figures 4 and 5. Figure 4 shows document information output in a normal pattern that can be recognized by humans, and Figure 5 shows a character pattern that can be recognized by a character recognition device. This shows document information printed by .

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a process of reading document information created using a character pattern for a character recognition machine outputted by the image output device of this embodiment. The image data read in is stored in the image memory 109. In step S12, the character recognition unit 105 performs character recognition based on the image data stored in the image memory 109 and converts it into code information. In step S13, a pattern is developed using the pattern data in the character font memory 103 based on the code information, and the result is displayed on the display section 110 or the like.

By doing this, even document data printed in machine character fonts can be recognized by humans.

As described above, according to this embodiment, by printing characters using a machine character font consisting of a simple pattern, it is possible to print a document that is easy for a character recognition device to read and recognize.

Furthermore, according to this embodiment, printed document data can be used as recorded data recorded on paper in the same way as a recording medium such as a floppy disk, so information can be stored at low cost, and it can also be used in databases, etc. It can be used as

Also, documents printed with machine fonts are simpler images than documents printed with regular character fonts, so MM
The compression efficiency of image compression using R or the like also improves. Therefore, when transmitting to another terminal by facsimile, for example, the encoding efficiency is improved and the transmission efficiency is improved.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, by printing a character pattern that is easy to recognize with a character recognition device, there is an effect that character recognition by a machine can be facilitated.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of an image output device of this embodiment, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing print processing in the image output device of this embodiment, and FIG. 3 is a document input in the image output device of this embodiment. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the process; FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a document printed with a character pattern that can be recognized by a human; and FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a document printed with a character pattern that can be recognized by a character recognition device. . In the figure, 100...CPtJ, 101...Program memory, 102...RAM, 103...Character font memory, 104...Machine character font memory, 1
05... Character recognition section, 106... Printing section, 107.
...Reader section, 108...Document memory, 109...
Image memory, 110... is a display section. Figure 1 Figure 2

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) A recording device that inputs document information as a code, converts it into pattern information, and outputs it, comprising a storage means for storing pattern information for character recognition, and an input document based on the pattern information from the storage means. 1. A recording device comprising a recording means for recording information by developing a pattern. (2) The apparatus further comprises a character recognition means for reading a document image and recognizing characters on the document, and a display means for displaying and outputting the recognized document information in a character pattern that can be recognized by humans. The recording device according to item 1.