Abstract: The device determines conditions for a processing liable to be carried out on data in a file, by at least one input/output device or unit. To this end the semantics of the processing of the data are determined, and a configuration determination is performed, without modifying the data, to take into account the semantics of the processing of the data in order to determine the configuration of the pilot of the input/output device or unit intended to implement this processing.

Abstract: A method for the automatic configuration of a computer peripheral for processing a computer document segmented into a plurality of unitary subparts for processing by the peripheral, which includes the steps of acquiring data relating to the processing context; of testing the context data in order to determine the validity of at least one predetermined condition relating to the context data; of modifying the preconfigured order of processing of the subparts of the computer document by means of the computer peripheral, the modification step being implemented if at least one predetermined condition is determined as being valid, in order thus to adapt, in a manner appropriate to the processing context, the order of processing of the subparts of the computer document by the computer peripheral.