Document Scanning Workflow for Separating Added Subsequent Documents
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing scanning systems lack a convenient function to handle the addition of subsequent documents during reading, resulting in inefficient handling and organization of image data from multiple documents.
Innovation Solution
A scanning system with a document reading unit, prompting unit, and output unit that separates and outputs preceding and subsequent image data as different files or chapters, allowing for improved document grouping and organization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If image data from multiple documents is collected into one continuous file, then document reading efficiency is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to inability to easily separate and organize image data from different documents
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the continuous file containing image data from multiple documents by inserting separator pages at boundaries between documents. This allows the file to maintain its continuous structure for efficient processing while enabling easy visual and operational separation of individual document images through the separator pages.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a document addition function is provided to read subsequent documents, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases due to need for managing multiple document reading operations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the reading operations of multiple documents into a single continuous scanning process. By maintaining a unified reading operation that can accommodate document additions, the system achieves adaptability without significantly increasing device complexity, as the core reading mechanism remains the same.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces separator pages as intermediaries between images of different documents. These separators act as markers that facilitate the management and organization of multiple document readings within a continuous file, simplifying the complexity of managing document boundaries.
3Manufacturing precision
If consecutive page numbers are assigned to all image data in one file, then manufacturing precision is improved through systematic organization, but loss of information occurs regarding which document each page belongs to
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses separator pages as intermediaries that contain information identifying the document to which subsequent pages belong. This maintains the consecutive page numbering system for systematic organization while preventing information loss about document boundaries and affiliations.
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AI summary
A scanning system includes: a document reading unit configured to read a document and generate image data read from the document; a prompting unit configured to prompt a notification unit to add, after the document reading unit reads a preceding document, a subsequent document subsequent to the preceding document; and an output unit configured to, after the document reading unit reads the subsequent document according to the addition, separate and output preceding image data read from the preceding document and subsequent image data read from the subsequent document.