Document Image Position Overlay for Multi-Crop Scanning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing document scanning technologies struggle to clearly identify which documents on a positioning plate correspond to displayed document images, making it difficult for users to understand the order and arrangement of scanned documents.
Innovation Solution
Acquire position information and analysis results of document image areas, and display this information alongside scanned image data in a manner that allows users to identify the corresponding document image areas, using a system that includes a multifunction peripheral (MFP), an MFP cooperative service, and an expense accounting service to manage and display metadata.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If multiple document images are displayed in determined page order, then the document processing efficiency is improved, but the user cannot easily identify which displayed image corresponds to which original document position
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces position coordinates as an intermediary element that mediates between the displayed document images and their original positions on the positioning plate. By overlaying position coordinate information on the displayed images, users can easily identify which original document each displayed image corresponds to, without affecting the automated page order determination and processing efficiency.
2Ease of operation
If document images are displayed without position information, then the display simplicity is improved, but the user cannot grasp the correspondence relationship between displayed images and original document positions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by selectively adding position coordinate information only to the necessary locations (displayed document images) without complicating the overall display system. The position information is locally overlaid on each document image, providing contextual information exactly where needed while maintaining the simplicity of the rest of the display interface.
3Loss of information
If position information is overlaid on displayed images, then the correspondence identification is improved, but the image processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by determining the page order and calculating position coordinates before the actual display process. By pre-processing the document images to embed position information, the system avoids complex real-time processing during display, thereby reducing overall system complexity while ensuring accurate correspondence information is available.
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AI summary
According to the technology of the present disclosure, in a case where multiple documents are placed on a document positioning plate, it is possible to display document images on a UI screen in such a manner that the user can easily check the correspondence relationship between the document images being displayed on the UI screen and the corresponding documents placed on the document positioning plate. An image processing apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a processor causing the image processing apparatus to perform: acquiring position information of each of a plurality of document image areas, and information of an analyzing result obtained by analysis of document image data corresponding to each of the plurality of document image areas; and controlling the information of the analyzing result corresponding to one of the plurality of document image areas to be displayed together with the scanned image data on a display apparatus.