JPS5953568B2 - Document verification/proofreading method - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] The present invention relates to a document verification/proofreading method.

In the field where documents are handled extensively, word processing systems (WordProcessingSyst)
em) is beginning to be adopted because it is easy to process and store documents.

However, in such a system, the tasks of document input/verification/proofreading are heavier on the operator compared to the editing/storage/classification tasks of this book, and the overall use of the system in terms of both time and labor is reduced. This accounts for a large proportion. Recently, various improved devices have been proposed for the document input device, but no effective device has yet been proposed for the document verification/proofreading device. Therefore, there is a need to enhance the document verification/proofreading functions and to use the system efficiently. The present invention aims to provide a new document verification/proofreading method that satisfies the above requirements.

Briefly stated, the present invention includes a means for sequentially reading unit character data according to the structure of the document from a data file storing character data of an input original document;
a sound generating means for converting the read character data into sound information for each unit; extracting a signal specifying a position on the document corresponding to the reading order for each unit of character data; and based on the signal; display means for displaying the position on the document of unit character data corresponding to the voice information from the voice generation means; The feature is that the contents are verified/proofread. In this invention, the phrase "unit character f yo ^" means data representing a unit character or word, and the phrase "document matching" refers to the original document and the created document in the temporary store keyed in by the operator. Furthermore, the term "document proofreading" refers to the process of editing, adding, deleting, and rearranging the document when differences are found between the two documents as a result of document matching. This refers to the proofreading of documents that involves the addition of operations such as

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram according to one embodiment of the present invention, which is mainly composed of a data input unit 10, a data file 20, a data separator 30, a sound generation unit 40, and a display unit 50. .

In this case, the data input crab unit 10 uses a keyboard unit, and the character data of the original document 1 is keyed in one character at a time, but in this embodiment, various parameters within the page of the document are attached at the time of keying in. I'm starting to do that. The intra-page parameters include the paragraph number P, the character line number within the paragraph (or the character line number of the entire page) L, and the unit character data number within the character line. The various numbers on this page are hereinafter collectively referred to as location data. The data file 20 has a plurality of storage areas for storing one page of document data, and each storage area contains a character code signal corresponding to a unit character and a location code signal corresponding to the location data. are now stored in serial form.

Further, the data separator 30 is connected to the data file 2.
This is for inputting 0 store data in time series for each unit storage data and then reading out the character code signal and the location code signal separately. The voice generating unit 40 is for converting the voice code signal into a voice output, and is a read-only memory in which unit character groups to be voice output are stored in advance in the form of time-series frequency components.
(hereinafter referred to as audio ROM) 41, and an audio signal converter 42 that converts the time-series frequency/numerical component output of the audio ROM 4l into an audio signal.

Thus, the display unit 50 includes a decoder 51 for decoding the location code signal, and a digital display 52 for digitally displaying the decoded output. As shown in FIG. 2, the digital display 52 is provided on the upper end surface of the table 53 on which the original document is placed, and the location data is displayed in the form of paragraph number P and character line number from the left side of the page. It is configured to be displayed in the order of L and unit character data number 0. In the above configuration, the data of the original document is inputted character by character by keystrokes on the keyboard unit 10, as in the conventional case.

At this time, although not limited thereto, location data in the key-in data is stored in the data file 20 along with the character data in the following manner. That is, the numerical value of the paragraph number is changed automatically when a space mark is pressed on the first character string of the next character line following the line feed operation. Further, the numerical value switching of the character line number is automatically performed by a line feed operation, and the numerical value switching of the unit character data number is also automatically performed by the data key-in operation. In this way, the sequentially input predetermined character code signals and location code signals are once stored in each storage area of the data file 20, and then sequentially separated in time series through the data separator 30.

Here, for convenience of explanation, all data stored in the data file 20 will be referred to as a created document. The separated character code signal is input to the audio ROM 4l, and time-series frequency components corresponding to the character are selected and read from the ROM. The time-series frequency component output is input to the audio signal converter 42 and converted into an audio signal, after which the speaker 43 generates audio corresponding to a predetermined character. Meanwhile, at the same time as the voice is generated, the separated location code signal is decoded through the decoder 5 and then inputted to the digital display 52 to indicate the page location of the character in the paragraph. The number (2), character line number (3) and unit character data number (4) are each digitally displayed.

Therefore, the document matching operation between the original document 1 and the document created by the data file 20 is performed while the original document is placed on the document mounting table 53 (shown in the second figure).
This is performed by the operator listening to the audio output from the speaker 43 while visually viewing the original document and the display contents on the display 52.

Therefore, such verification work can be easily performed with less effort. During this document verification work, if a writing error is found in the created document, the following document proofreading work is performed.

That is, the keyboard unit 10 issues a command to temporarily stop the document collation work, and the data file 20, data separator 30, sound generation unit 40, and display unit 50 are held in their respective output states at the relevant time. In this state, the operator selects the data file 20 based on the location data displayed on the display 52.
The keyboard unit 10 may store the correct character data in the storage area corresponding to the position of the entry error. In this way, after the erroneously entered character data is corrected, the keyboard unit [0] is used to start the document verification operation again, but according to the configuration of the present invention, the document verification/ Calibration work can be performed extremely efficiently, and work efficiency can be significantly improved.

One embodiment of this invention has been described above, but
The essence of the present invention is not limited to such embodiments, and various modifications and expansions are possible.

That is, the modified examples are listed below.
(1) As the data entry unit 10, an optical reading device (0CR) can be used in addition to the above-mentioned keyboard unit.

In this case, the system of the present invention has a functional configuration that calibrates the OCR reading error. (2) As the data file 20, a memory may be used whose storage area structure corresponds one-to-one with each character entry area of the original document.

In this case, each storage area of the memory stores only each character data of the document, and the storage (writing)
The read operation is performed according to the arrangement order according to the program of the control section consisting of a microprocessor. Thus, the read data is directly applied to the audio generation unit 40, but the display unit 50 is applied with a memory address signal from the control section. Note that the data separator can be omitted. (3) The location data is displayed not only on the digital display but also on one side of the placement surface 101 of the original document as shown in FIG. 3, corresponding to each character line of the document. An analog display section including a line specification display section 102 and a column specification display section 103 provided below the placement surface corresponding to each character string (or word string) of the document can also be applied. It is possible.

(4) Similarly, as the location data display, a cursor display type display board having a transparent display electrode structure that is placed over the top of the original document and designates the position of each character in the document may be used.

(5) Furthermore, similarly, a display device that displays each character data of the document is used as a location data display device,
It is also possible to recognize the location by the cursor displayed when the character data is displayed character by character on the screen. Next, as for an extended example of the present invention, it is possible to further improve the functionality by adding a device that warns of errors in inputting meaningless words.

Such a warning device functions effectively when the character code signal inputted to the audio ROM 4l is handled in the form of words, and it is possible to detect meaningless words from the data file, such as the English word "Wtrging (Writing is correct)." )] is read and input into the audio ROM, the following operation will be performed: the ROM will accept that there is no registration of such a word and issue a warning to the audio signal converter. After outputting the buzzer sound signal, the buzzer sound is generated through the speaker power.As a result, the operator can know the existence of meaningless words.At this time, the display also shows the input error. is displayed, and the document matching operation is also temporarily stopped.Therefore, the operator's document processing effort is further reduced.As is clear from the above description, the document matching/matching operation of the present invention is performed. The proofreading method sequentially reads unit character data according to the structure of the document from a data file storing character data of an input original document, and converts the read character data into audio information for each unit. extracting a signal specifying a position on the document corresponding to the reading order of each character data unit, and displaying the position on the document of the unit character data corresponding to the audio information based on the signal; The present invention is characterized by collating and proofreading documents using the audio and visual information.Thus, both of these tasks are very efficient and extremely effective in improving work efficiency. .

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of one embodiment of the document matching/proofreading system according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a schematic plan view showing an example of the display unit in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a modification of the display unit. FIG. 3 is a schematic plan view showing an example. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Original document, 10... Data input unit, 20... Data file, 30... Data separator, 40... Audio generation unit, 41... Audio ROM, 42... Audio signal Converter, 43...Speaker, 50...Display unit, 51...Decoder, 5
2...Digital display, 53...Document mounting table.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. Means for sequentially reading character data in units according to the structure of the document from a data file storing character data of an input original document, and converting the read character data into audio information for each unit. A signal that specifies a position on the document corresponding to the reading order of each unit of character data is extracted, and based on the signal, a signal that specifies a position on the document corresponding to the reading order of each unit of character data is extracted, and a signal that corresponds to the voice information from the voice generation means is extracted based on the signal. A document verification/proofreading method comprising: display means for displaying the position of unit character data on the document. 2. The data file has a configuration that temporarily stores the character data of the input original document in a form accompanied by location data representing the location where each unit data should exist on the document, and reads the character data. 2. The document verification/proofreading method according to claim 1, wherein the means for outputting comprises a data separator that separates and extracts a unit character code signal and a location code signal from the stored data of the data file.