Document Processing Apparatus for Selective Image Editing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face inefficiencies when combining and editing documents created by different applications, requiring manual page reassignment and labor-intensive processes to manage multiple data types, leading to decreased productivity and increased errors.
Innovation Solution
A document processing apparatus that creates an electronic document file from various application data, allows for page type determination, and performs image editing on selected pages, excluding non-image pages, to provide an efficient editing environment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If manual page reassignment and integration processes are used to combine documents from various applications, then document integration capability is achieved, but user productivity decreases and errors increase due to labor-intensive operations
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically detects page types (image vs. non-image) and performs appropriate processing without requiring user intervention. The determination unit autonomously identifies page characteristics and the control unit automatically routes image pages to the image editing application, eliminating manual page reassignment and integration operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The document processing apparatus acts as an intermediary between multiple application programs and the user. It provides a unified interface that automatically handles document integration from various applications, performing page type determination and selective image editing without requiring users to manually interface between different applications.
2Reliability
If all selected pages are subjected to image editing processing, then complete image editing coverage is achieved, but processing time increases unnecessarily for non-image pages
Solution Approach 1:
Different processing approaches are applied to different types of pages within the same document. Image pages receive image editing processing while non-image pages are excluded from this processing. The control unit selectively applies image editing only to pages identified as image pages by the determination unit, optimizing processing efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of applying image editing to all selected pages (excessive action), the system applies image editing only to the necessary subset of image pages (partial action). This partial processing approach maintains reliability for image pages while significantly reducing unnecessary processing time for non-image pages.
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AI summary
According to this invention, bookbinding data containing pages created by respective applications can be constructed regardless of the type of application. Even when one or more desired pages contained in bookbinding data are selected, image editing is designated, but a non-image page exists in the selected pages, the non-image page can be excluded from editing targets, and the process can shift to image editing. For this purpose, when a plurality of pages are selected and image editing is designated, whether each selected page is an editable image page is determined. An editable page is temporarily stored. After all the selected pages are determined, an image editing application is activated to edit stored editable image pages.