JP2001142880A - Document management apparatus, document management method, and storage medium - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [PROBLEMS] To make it easy to search for the original document in which the content exists even if the content to be reused exists in a document having a plurality of pages. A document management device that can be further facilitated,
A document management method and a storage medium are provided. SOLUTION: When a user operates a mouse,
When the cursor is moved to a desired content and the content is selected (step S1), the number of thumbnail pages including the selected content is determined (step S2), and the thumbnails of the determined number of pages are displayed. It is determined whether or not it is currently displayed on the container (step S
3) When the thumbnail is not displayed, the thumbnail of the number of pages is displayed (step S4). On the other hand, when the thumbnail is displayed, step S4 is skipped. The area where the content selected in is located is highlighted (step S5).

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a document management apparatus, a document management method, and a storage medium for facilitating reuse of contents constituting document information.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art One of the purposes of a document management apparatus for managing document information is to reuse an existing document.
The created document is decomposed into contents constituting the document, specifically, text data such as sentences and image data such as charts and the like, and those which are easily re-used by, for example, displaying a list. Is conventionally known.

[0003]

However, in the above-described conventional document management apparatus, if each of the listed contents exists in a document having a plurality of pages, the original document in which the contents exist is searched. It was getting harder.

The present invention has been made in view of this point, and makes it easy to search for the original document in which the content exists even if the content to be reused exists in a document having a plurality of pages. Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a document management device, a document management method, and a storage medium that can further facilitate content reuse.

[0005]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a document management apparatus in which a plurality of pages of document information are divided into respective contents constituting the respective document information and input. Input means, thumbnail display means for displaying each thumbnail of the document information over the plurality of pages on a display means, content display means for displaying each of the divided and inputted contents on the display means, It is characterized by comprising selecting means for selecting one of the contents, and control means for controlling so that an area corresponding to the selected content among the thumbnails displayed on the display means is highlighted.

Preferably, when the thumbnail corresponding to the document information including the selected content is not displayed on the display, the control unit displays the thumbnail on the display, and displays the thumbnail on the display. Medium is characterized in that a region corresponding to the selected content is controlled to be highlighted.

In order to achieve the above object, according to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a document management method, wherein document information over a plurality of pages is divided and input into respective contents constituting the document information, and the document information over the plurality of pages is input. Displaying each thumbnail of the document information on the display unit, displaying each of the divided and input contents on the display unit, selecting one of the displayed contents, and displaying the thumbnail on the display unit Medium is characterized in that an area corresponding to the selected content is highlighted.

Preferably, when a thumbnail corresponding to the document information including the selected content is not displayed on the display means, the thumbnail is displayed on the display means, and among the displayed thumbnails, the selected thumbnail is displayed. The area corresponding to the content is displayed in reverse video.

In order to achieve the above object, a storage medium according to claim 5 divides and inputs document information over a plurality of pages into respective contents constituting the document information and inputs the document information over the plurality of pages. Each thumbnail of the information is displayed on the display unit, each of the divided and input contents is displayed on the display unit, and any one of the displayed contents is selected, and the thumbnails displayed on the display unit are selected. And a document management method characterized by reversely displaying an area corresponding to the selected content.

Preferably, when a thumbnail corresponding to the document information including the selected content is not displayed on the display means, the thumbnail is displayed on the display means, and among the displayed thumbnails, the selected thumbnail is displayed. The area corresponding to the content is displayed in reverse video.

[0011]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a document management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, a document management apparatus according to the present embodiment includes a CPU (central processing unit) 1, a keyboard (KB) 2, a mouse 3, a display 4, a ROM 5,
It comprises a RAM 6, a hard disk drive (HDD) 7, and a bus 8.

The CPU 1 is connected to the above components 2 to 7 via a bus 8 and controls the components.

The keyboard 2 has keys for instructing and executing various controls and keys for inputting characters.

The mouse 3 is a pointing device for operating a cursor or the like displayed on the display screen of the display 4, for example.

The display 4 is, for example, an LCD (liquid crystal display) capable of color display.
List content for reuse,
The source document of each content is reduced and displayed.
Hereinafter, the reduced image is referred to as a “thumbnail”.

The ROM 5 is a read-only memory,
It mainly stores a program for executing the control processing of FIG. 5 described later, various table data, and the like.

The RAM 6 is a writable memory,
It is used as a memory for temporarily storing various input information and calculation results.

The hard disk device 7 is an external storage device mainly for storing document information.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a display example in which two types of content and a thumbnail of a document as a source of the content are displayed on the display unit 4. FIG. 3 shows one of the display examples in FIG. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a state in which the other content is selected in the display example of FIG. 2.

In FIG. 2, the display unit 4 displays three pages of thumbnails 11 to 11 of document information of a plurality of pages.
13 is displayed, which is one content constituting each document information corresponding to the thumbnails 11 and 12, respectively. FIGS. 11a 'and 12a' located in the areas 11a and 12a are cut out from the original document information and displayed. Have been.

Then, as shown in FIG. 3, when the user operates the mouse, the cursor C is moved to the position shown in FIG.
Is moved to the position shown in FIG.
The outline of a 'is displayed thick, and the thumbnail 11
In the middle, the area 11a where FIG. 11a 'is located is highlighted.

Further, as shown in FIG. 4, when the user operates the mouse, the cursor C is moved to another FIG.
When the user moves to the position of a 'and selects FIG. 12a', the outline of FIG. 12a 'is displayed thick, and the area 12a of the thumbnail 12 where the figure 12a' is located is highlighted.

As described above, even when the content to be reused exists in a document having a plurality of pages, it becomes easy to search for the original document in which the content exists.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the procedure of control processing executed by the document management apparatus of the present embodiment, in particular, by the CPU 1.

In the figure, first, the user operates the mouse to move the cursor C to a desired content, and selects that content (step S1).
Then, the number of thumbnail pages including the selected content is determined (step S2). Here, the number of pages of the thumbnail is determined based on the list shown in FIG.

The list shown in FIG. 6 is created when, for example, document information to be reused is divided into respective contents constituting the document information and stored in the hard disk device 7, and the list of documents is created. For each page, information (for example, rectangular information) indicating the position and area of the content in the thumbnail, a pointer indicating the next page, and a display flag indicating whether or not the thumbnail is displayed on the display 4 , And is mainly configured.

Returning to FIG. 5, in step S3, the thumbnails of the number of pages determined in step S2 are displayed on the display unit 4.
It is determined whether or not the thumbnail is currently displayed by checking the value of the display flag. When the thumbnail is not displayed, the thumbnail of the number of pages is displayed (step S4). If it is displayed, step S4 is skipped and the process proceeds to step S5.

In step S5, the area where the content selected in step S1 is displayed in the displayed thumbnails is highlighted based on the information (rectangular information) in the list of FIG. finish.

A storage medium storing software program codes for realizing the functions of the above-described embodiments is supplied to a system or apparatus, and the computer (or CPU or MPU) of the system or apparatus stores the storage medium in the storage medium. It goes without saying that the object of the present invention is also achieved by reading and executing the program code.

In this case, the program code itself read from the storage medium realizes the novel function of the present invention, and the storage medium storing the program code constitutes the present invention.

As a storage medium for supplying the program code, for example, a floppy disk, hard disk, optical disk, magneto-optical disk, CD-ROM,
CD-R, magnetic tape, nonvolatile memory card, RO
M or the like can be used. Further, the program code may be supplied from a server computer via a communication network.

When the computer executes the readout program code, not only the functions of the above-described embodiment are realized, but also an OS or the like running on the computer operates based on the instruction of the program code. It goes without saying that a part or all of the actual processing is performed, and the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized by the processing.

Further, after the program code read from the storage medium is written into a memory provided in a function expansion board inserted into the computer or a function expansion unit connected to the computer, based on the instructions of the program code, It goes without saying that the CPU included in the function expansion board or the function expansion unit performs part or all of the actual processing, and the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized by the processing.

[0036]

As described above, according to the first, third or fifth aspect of the present invention, each thumbnail of the document information over a plurality of pages is displayed on the display means, and each of the divided and input contents is displayed. Is displayed on the display means, and any one of the displayed contents is selected. In the thumbnail displayed on the display means, an area corresponding to the selected content is displayed in reverse video, so that it can be reused. Even when the content to be found exists in a document having a plurality of pages, it is easy to search for the original document in which the content exists, thereby making it easier to reuse the content.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of a document management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a display example in which two types of contents and thumbnails of documents in which the contents exist are displayed on the display unit in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a state in which one content is selected in the display example of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a state where another content is selected in the display example of FIG. 2;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a procedure of a control process executed by the document management apparatus, particularly, the CPU of FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a list for storing various information used by the document management apparatus in FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 CPU 2 Keyboard 3 Mouse 4 Display 5 ROM 6 RAM 7 Hard disk drive 8 Bus

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. An input unit for dividing and inputting document information over a plurality of pages into respective contents constituting the document information, and a thumbnail display for displaying a thumbnail of the document information over the plurality of pages on a display unit Means, content display means for displaying each of the divided and input contents on the display means, selecting means for selecting any of the displayed contents, and thumbnails displayed on the display means, Control means for controlling to reversely display an area corresponding to the selected content. 2. The control unit, when a thumbnail corresponding to document information including the selected content is not displayed on the display unit, causes the display unit to display the thumbnail, and displays the thumbnail on the display unit. 2. The document management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein control is performed so that an area corresponding to the selected content is displayed in reverse video. 3. A method of dividing document information of a plurality of pages into respective contents constituting the document information and inputting the divided information, and displaying each thumbnail of the document information of the plurality of pages on a display unit. Displaying each input content on the display unit, selecting one of the displayed contents, and highlighting an area corresponding to the selected content in the thumbnail displayed on the display unit A document management method characterized by the following. 4. When the thumbnail corresponding to the document information including the selected content is not displayed on the display, the thumbnail is displayed on the display, and among the displayed thumbnails, the selected thumbnail is displayed. 4. The document management method according to claim 3, wherein an area corresponding to the content is highlighted. 5. A method of dividing document information of a plurality of pages into respective contents constituting the respective document information and inputting the divided information, displaying respective thumbnails of the document information of the plurality of pages on a display means, Displaying each input content on the display unit, selecting one of the displayed contents, and highlighting an area corresponding to the selected content in the thumbnail displayed on the display unit A storage medium storing a computer-implementable program including a document management method characterized by the following. 6. When a thumbnail corresponding to document information including the selected content is not displayed on the display, the thumbnail is displayed on the display, and the selected thumbnail is displayed among the displayed thumbnails. The storage medium according to claim 5, wherein an area corresponding to the content is displayed in reverse video.