Data medium handling appts. and data medium handling method

Abstract

A data medium handling apparatus and a data medium handling method suitable for use for handling of documents, for example, in a financial organ. The data medium handling apparatus (30) for recognizing, based on an image (19) read from a data medium on which information is described in an arbitrary format, the information, is constructed such that it comprises means (2) for extracting characteristics unique to the data medium including the format from the read image data (19) and specifying, from the characteristics, a position at which information to be recognized is present, and image recognition means (3) for recognizing the image (19) at the position specified by the is preceding means (2) to discriminate the information, so that the data medium handling apparatus (30) can handle documents having various formats such as private slips.

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[0001] This application is a divisional application of Chinese Patent Application No. 96191000.3 filed on July 30, 1996, entitled "Data Media Processing Device and Data Media Processing Method". technical field [0002] The present invention relates to a media processing device and a data media processing method suitable for file processing in financial institutions, and in particular to a data media processing device and a data media processing method for processing files of various formats such as personal files. Background technique [0003] In recent years, as devices that read character information as image data (an image) and then recognize characters, such as optical character reading devices (OCR devices), have been developed, and in various industries, image data reading device in order to achieve the expansion of business efficiency, etc. [0004] For example, an operator who works at a window of a financial institution etc. achieves business expansion by efficient...

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[0037] Furthermore, in such a second reference point extraction method as described above with reference to FIG. 118(b), the object document for reading is a dedicated document on which the reference mark R is printed, and the problem is that the reference mark R is not printed on it. R ordinary files where the reference point cannot be extracted

[0038] Furthermore, using the technology employed in the recognition technology used for document readers etc. in which a specific point of a table in a document is used as a reference point, the problem is that the layout of the object document for recognition cannot be specified to some extent, and the Technology is not very functionally efficient

[0039] It should be noted that even if the same document that has been read previously as its image is read again, due to reasons such as dust and blurring when the image is read, it will be found that the read image is different from the previous one, and in this case , the same reference point may sometimes not be extracted

[0040] Also, in order for the server to automatically refer to Figure 119 The kind of rotation correction processing of the image data shown, it is necessary to carry out the character recognition of the image data actually read, and then rely on whether the character recognition can be carried out to distinguish, see whether the reading direction of the document is right or wrong, and here Its problem is that this greatly hinders the improvement of work efficiency

[0041] Meanwhile, in the above-described method in which the result of character recognition of the image data and the image data itself are displayed on the display unit for confirmation and correction of the result of character recognition, since the image data is visually observed and confirming terms, so the problem is that the image data contains a large number of terms to be confirmed, so wrong recognition is still difficult to avoid

[0042] Furthermore, when the image data cannot be displayed on the display unit at one time, the display screen must be scrolled to view the data backwards, and in this case, the required key must be pressed to perform the scrolling operation

So the problem is that the operation is complicated

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