Image processing system, management system, image processing apparatus and method of proofreading document

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016124690-A1
Application number	US-201514922311-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 26, 2015
Priority date	Oct 31, 2014
Publication date	May 5, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

There is provided a management system for managing a manuscript of a book in a plurality of steps, works serially performed on the manuscript being divided into the steps, the management system comprising: a print control unit configured to generate data for printing out sheets in response to receiving a print request of manuscript data, respective pages in the manuscript data being incorporated in the sheets, wherein the manuscript data is generated by digitizing the manuscript including the respective pages, and the respective sheets include identification information items which are made unique on a sheet-by-sheet basis and used for determining properness of the respective sheets, the identification information items indicating a step among the steps which includes a work most lately performed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A management system for managing a manuscript of a book in a plurality of steps, works serially performed on the manuscript being divided into the steps, the management system comprising:
a print control unit configured to generate data for printing out sheets in response to receiving a print request of manuscript data, respective pages in the manuscript data being incorporated in the sheets, wherein the manuscript data is generated by digitizing the manuscript including the respective pages, and the respective sheets include identification information items which are made unique on a sheet-by-sheet basis and used for determining properness of the respective sheets, the identification information items indicating a step among the steps which includes a work most lately performed.

2 . The management system as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:
a management unit configured to allocate discrete step codes to two steps of the steps wherein one of the steps includes a first work for generating the manuscript data and the other step includes a second work for obtaining the manuscript for proofreading by printing out the sheets in response to the print request of the manuscript data generated through the first work, wherein the print control unit attaches the identification information items to the respective sheets in response to receiving the print request, the identification information items including a book code indicating the book and a step code indicating the other step in which the second work is performed.

3 . The management system as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the identification information items further include;
a code indicating a total number of the sheets for having the respective pages in the manuscript data incorporated therein, wherein the manuscript data is generated through the first work; and a code indicating a sequence number of the respective sheets.

4 . The management system as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the print control unit attaches the identification information items at a plurality of positions in a sheet of the sheets, the attached identification information items being unique to the sheet.

5 . The management system as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the print control unit inserts an entry area in the respective sheets, the entry area being provided for entering a check mark indicating that the manuscript for proofreading obtained through the second work has been proofread.

6 . The management system as claimed in claim 4 , further comprising a scan control unit configured to determine properness of sheets in scanning data, which is generated by scanning the manuscript for proofreading proofread in the other step in which the second work is performed, wherein the scan control unit extracts the book code and the step code from the respective sheets of the scanning data through analysis of the attached identification information items and determines the properness of the book code and the step code extracted from the respective sheets.

7 . The management system as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the scan control unit further extracts the code indicating the sequence number of the respective sheets through analysis of the identification information, and thereby determines presence or absence of a sheet missing in the scanning data.

8 . The management system as claimed in claim 7 , further comprising a notification unit configured to report information to parties registered as notification parties by the managing unit upon a work being performed in the respective steps wherein the reported information indicates that the work is performed.

9 . The management system as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the notification unit further reports the determination result of the scan control unit to the notification parties.

10 . An image processing apparatus connected to a management system for managing a manuscript of a book in a plurality of steps, works serially performed on the manuscript being divided into the steps, the image processing apparatus comprising:
a transmitting unit configured to transmits a print request of manuscript data generated based on the manuscript; and a print unit configured to receive data of sheets, respective pages in the manuscript data being incorporated in the sheets, wherein the manuscript data is generated by digitizing the manuscript including the respective pages, and the respective sheets include identification information items which are made unique on a sheet-by-sheet basis and used for determining properness of the respective sheets, the identification information items indicating a step among the steps which includes a work most lately performed.

11 . A method of generating manuscript for proofreading by an image processing system including a management system for managing a manuscript of a book in a plurality of steps, works serially performed on the manuscript being divided into the steps, and an image processing apparatus connected to the management system, the method comprising the steps of:
performing a print control process, by the management system, in which data for printing out sheets is generated in response to receiving a print request of manuscript data, respective pages in the manuscript data being incorporated in the sheets, wherein the manuscript data is generated by digitizing the manuscript including the respective pages, and the respective sheets include identification information items which are made unique on a sheet-by-sheet basis and used for determining properness of the respective sheets, the identification information items indicating a step among the steps which includes a work most lately performed; transmitting, by the image processing apparatus, a print request of the manuscript data; and printing out, by the image processing apparatus, sheets of the data output from the management system in response to the print request of the manuscript data.

12 . The method of proofreading as claimed in claim 11 , further comprising the step of
charging the image processing apparatus, by the management system, according to times accessing the management system, according to period using the management system, according to amount of the output data of the sheets for having respective pages in the manuscript data incorporated therein, or according to times outputting the data of sheets.

Assignees

• Kimura Atsushi
• Tazuke Tomoyuki
• Kameda Takahiro
• Ricoh Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kimura Atsushi
• Tazuke Tomoyuki
• Kameda Takahiro

Classifications

• G06F3/1275 Primary

  Print workflow management, e.g. defining or changing a workflow, cross publishing · CPC title

• G06F3/1241 Primary

  Dividing a job according to job requirements, e.g. black/white and colour pages, covers and body of books, tabs · CPC title

• G06F3/1252

  for sheet based media · CPC title

• G06F3/1203

  Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management · CPC title

• H04N1/00803

  Presence or absence of information · CPC title