Abstract: A character string not to be referred to which is included in structured document data is extracted, and an XML generation unit generates a random code table. Then, the XML generation unit generates a conversion font by converting character codes of a font using the table. The character codes of a document are converted in accordance with the table. The XML generation unit embeds the font and the conversion font.

Abstract: A system is presented for scanning entire books or document all at once using an adaptive process where the book or document has known fonts and unknown fonts. The known fonts are processed through a verification system where sure words and error words are determined. Both the sure words and error words are sent to OCR training where they are re-OCR'ed and repeatedly verified until they meet a predetermined quality criteria. Characters or words not meeting the predetermined quality criteria receive additional OCR training until all the characters and words pass the predetermined quality criteria. Unknown fonts are scanned and clustered together by shape. Outliers in the shapes are manually keyed-in. Those symbols that are manually classified go to OCR training and then to the known type optimization process.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus receives page description data, converts the page description data, thereby generating first intermediate data that is described for each object, converts the first intermediate data, thereby generating second intermediate data that is described with edge information of an object, stores, in a storage area, data representing drawing position information of an object, determines whether the object overlaps with and is located behind another object, in the case where it is determined that the object is located behind another object, performs character recognition processing on the first intermediate data, whereas in the case where it is determined that the object is not located behind another object, performs character recognition processing on the second intermediate data.

Abstract: A multiple font management system and method in a printing device for activating multiple fonts is provided for enabling base font localization and font patching for print jobs to reduce the need to upload entire fonts in order to provide localized receipts or to provide corrections to partially-corrupted font tables. A font access level stores locations of activated base, localization and patch fonts and are referenced in an access order during character retrieval so as to apply retrieval priority to patches and localizations. A font storage level maintains multiple tier character indices for referencing character shape data in order to provide faster character searching through each of the multiple activated fonts than a single-level index.

Abstract: A client server system which enables the user of a client computer to obtain the optimum printing result only by designating desired print settings, and to perform printing according to common print settings even if printers are modified or a new printer is added on a network. A favorite display module displays a print setting designating screen relating a printer. A data sending and receiving module transmits the print settings designated on the print setting designating screen by a user and an ID of a client computer to a server. A data sending and receiving module receives a printer driver adapted to the printer and print setting information from the server. A favorite setting changing module changes print settings of the printer driver according to the print setting information sent from the server. A favorite setting completion display module indicates that the changing of the print settings has been completed.

Abstract: A method of rendering text in an image forming device comprises providing a user interface to receive a user-defined font sharpening threshold; receiving the user-defined font sharpening threshold entered by user via the user interface, selecting a halftone screen for text based on text size and a user defined font sharpening threshold; and rendering the text with the selected halftone screen.

Abstract: A label printer having a plurality of input devices for inputting information to said label printer where a first input device can be a keyboard, and a second input device can be a connectable external controlling entity; a supply of image receiving medium such as a tape; a printer adapted to print an image on the tape; and a printer controller for controlling the label printer, so that when the label printer is connected the label printer can be operated in a stand alone mode in which information can only be input to said label printer via said first input device, or an external control mode in which information can only be input to said label printer via the connecting device, such that for a predetermined period of time after use in one of the said stand alone mode and the said external control mode, any information input via the input device not in use can not operate the label printer, but after the predetermined period of time information can be input to operate the label printer via either the first in

Abstract: An application programming interface instantiates an ink analyzer object that receives document data for a document containing electronic ink content from a software application hosting the document and running on a first processing thread. The ink analyzer object then employs the first thread to make a copy of the document data, provides the copy of the document data to an electronic ink analysis process, and returns control of the first processing thread to the analysis process. After the analysis process has analyzed the electronic ink, the ink analyzer object reconciles the results of the analysis process with current document data for the document.

Abstract: In a printing device storing a plurality of font files, at least a first font file storing glyph data corresponding to a first set of characters, characters of the first set being represented by double-byte words and at least a second font file storing glyph data corresponding to a second set of characters, characters of the second set being represented by single-byte words, a method of managing the printing of characters comprises upon receipt of a double-byte word, determining whether the received double-byte word represents a character that is also in the second set of characters. If not, the double-byte word is used to extract glyph data from the first font file. If so, data of the double-byte word is used to extract glyph data from the second font file.

Abstract: This invention is directed to a system and method for storing font image data, which is already rendered, in a history-based order on the server side. This avoids the server side processing time to render the font every time a request is received. This allows users to use many server side fonts that users may not have on their client workstations. In the method, the user uses a web browser to choose a font type, size, and style from a list of available fonts installed on the server. The system then determines if the selected font exists in the font repository. If the font exists, the system retrieves the font images from the font repository. If the font does not exist, the system creates the font images and stores the font images to the font repository.

Abstract: Planar substrates are printed, cut, and folded to form three-dimensional cartons. Given graphics intended to appear on a carton surface or panel, printed graphics are laid-out and automatically positioned and manipulated using structural information associated with the cartons. Preferably a single computer-generated graphics file is created for use in printing the various panels and flaps. The graphics design can be overlaid on a computer image of the substrate, and graphic portions can be rotated, scaled, and aligned to properly fit printing areas on what will be panels and flaps (after cutting occurs). A computer generated three-dimensional image of the carton showing graphics printed on the panels and flaps can be manipulated by a graphics artist to confirm accuracy of the graphic file data before actual printing occurs.

Abstract: A print control apparatus carrying out a print control processing for print data undergoing a print processing in a print apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives print data; a processing unit that carries out image processing for the received print data, thereby generating image data; an image data analyzing unit that analyzes at least one draw object in the generated image data; a display control unit that displays object information relating to the draw object analyzed by the image data analyzing unit on a display unit; an object information change instruction receiving unit that receives a change instruction for the object information; an object information changing unit that changes object information relating to the draw object according to the change instruction for the object information received by the object information change instruction receiving unit; and a storage unit that stores image data and object information.

Abstract: In a data processing system in which image data representing a form or the like is generated and transmitted via a network, selection is made as to whether data necessary for generating image data or generated image data is stored.

Abstract: Provided herein is a cable label forming apparatus having an edit screen display device, a selection candidate display instructing device, and a selection candidate display device. The selection candidate display device displays a last selected candidate among the plurality of selection candidates on a priority basis in a normal edit screen when displaying the plurality of selection candidates is instructed, and displays a specific candidate among the plurality of selection candidates on a priority basis in a cable label forming edit screen when displaying the plurality of selection candidates is instructed.

Abstract: Provided herein is a label creating apparatus including: a memory unit to associate and memory a first character or graphic with a second character or graphic that has a pairwise relationship with the first character or graphic; an input unit to allow inputting the first character or graphic; a display unit to display according to the first character or graphic input with the input unit the second character or graphic memory in the memory unit; and a printing unit to print the first character or graphic that has been input and the second character or graphic that has been displayed. The label creating apparatus creates a pair of labels on which the characters or graphics that have a pairwise relationship are respectively printed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the expedient supply of differential gloss text into a document image, particularly as when desired in the employ of rendering variable data. A font character is selected and sub-sampled. The sub-sampled result is then scaled up into a full size result. A first halftone cell having a first anisotropic structure orientation is selected and applied to the full size scaled font result while a second halftone cell having a second anisotropic structure orientation is applied to the surrounding background around the full size scaled font result to create a gloss font character. This full gloss font character is then stored as a font representation as callable by the digital front end of a printing apparatus.

Abstract: A method and system for providing a printer for printing an encoded data stream. The stream includes a section of complex text data. The code is preferably Unicode, and the complex text data is preferably Unicode complex text. The printer includes a font, a text parser, and a layout engine. The font includes a plurality of glyphs. The text parser parses the data stream to determine the section of complex text data in the data stream. The layout engine is coupled to the text parser and with the font. The layout engine receives the section of complex text data from the text parser and determines at least one of the plurality of glyphs and glyph positions corresponding to the section of complex text data.

Abstract: A multiple font management system and method in a printing device for activating multiple fonts is provided for enabling base font localization and font patching for print jobs to reduce the need to upload entire fonts in order to provide localized receipts or to provide corrections to partially-corrupted font tables. A font access level stores locations of activated base, localization and patch fonts and are referenced in an access order during character retrieval so as to apply retrieval priority to patches and localizations. A font storage level maintains multiple tier character indices for referencing character shape data in order to provide faster character searching through each of the multiple activated fonts than a single-level index.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus acquires information included in application data created by an application but not in image data generated by interpreting the application data, adds the acquired information to the generated image data generated based on the application data as attribute information (meta data) of the generated image data, and outputs the generated image data and the attribute information which has been added to the generated image data to an external device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the expedient supply of differential gloss or other correlation mark text into a document image via a font definition, particularly as when desired in the employ of rendering variable data. A font character is selected and sub-sampled. The sub-sampled result is then scaled up into a full size result. A first halftone cell having a first anisotropic structure orientation is selected and applied to the full size scaled font result while a second halftone cell having a second anisotropic structure orientation is applied to the surrounding background around the full size scaled font result to create a gloss font or other correlation mark character. This full gloss font character or correlation mark character is then stored as a font representation as callable by the digital front end of a printing apparatus.

Abstract: A variable data pantograph is formed by receiving a variable data string and retrieving at least one character representation from a vocabulary of character representations stored in memory. The retrieved at least one character representation corresponds to the variable data string. Each of the character representations in the vocabulary include a foreground region including a character shape and a background region suitably sized and arranged for encompassing the foreground region. The background region incorporates a first pattern of elements and the foreground region incorporates a second pattern of elements. The retrieved at least one character representation is assembled to form a variable data pantograph, whereby when the variable data pantograph is rendered in an original document, the foreground and background regions are similar in tone, the foreground and background regions being substantially less similar in tone in a copy of the original document to render the character visible.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus has an extracting unit, a dividing unit and a text searching unit. The extracting unit extracts a text part from an image. The dividing unit classifies text in the text part based on color information of the text. The text searching unit searches the text based on the color information.

Abstract: A document generation apparatus has a comparator that compares the type of language of original document data and the type of language provided at a reproduction terminal that reproduces the original document data, and a generator that generates document data with font based on the original document that does not include a character font when results of a comparison performed by the comparator indicate that both types of languages match, and generates document data with font based on the original document that does include a character font used in the original document data when the results of the comparison performed by the comparator indicate that both types of language do not match.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of forming characters for microprint and an image forming apparatus using the same. The method of forming characters for microprint includes determining for every image character a size font taking into account the rules to create small prints, rasterizing a character into a bitmap, skeletonizing the bitmap, reformatting the bitmap maintaining a character legibility, storing the bitmap, and forming halftoning cells from the reformatted bitmap.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus for forming print data to be print-processed by a printer is constructed by: designation receiving means for receiving designation of a duplex printing, discriminating means for discriminating the number of pages in the case where data to be printed has been arranged on a recording paper, and command adding means for receiving the designation of the duplex printing by the designation receiving means and, in the case where it is determined by the discriminating means that the number of pages of the recording paper on which the data to be printed has been arranged is equal to an odd number, adding a command to urge a forced paper ejection in the printer lest a blank page of the last page is logically counted in the printer. A print data forming method and a print control program for realizing such an apparatus and a memory medium which stores such a program are provided.

Abstract: A printing system for one- or two-dimensional barcodes, and a method and program of creating virtual fonts for such barcodes enable the font and output parameters of the font to be easily changed. The printing system for printing one- or two-dimensional barcodes has a host computer and a printer in communication therewith. The host computer has an application program for creating text data containing a one- or two-dimensional barcode and a printer driver for converting the text data to commands and for sending the commands to the printer. The printing system also has a virtual font configuration program for defining a virtual font linking one- or two-dimensional barcode font data of the printer driver with parameter values configuring the corresponding barcodes.

Abstract: A method of editing a printed page comprises feeding a printed page into a multifunction printer with the printed page including text and at least one handwritten edit symbol. A first electronic printable file, which corresponds to the text of printed page, and at least one electronic edit symbol, which corresponds to the at least one handwritten edit symbol, are obtained via the multifunction printer. Via the multifunction printer, the first electronic printable file is electronically modified with at least one electronic edit instruction, which corresponds to the at least one electronic edit symbol, to create a second electronic printable file that includes the text modified according to the at least one handwritten edit symbol.

Abstract: A high-resolution printing method includes the steps of determining if a pixel of a plurality of pixels is a true black pixel and positioning the true black pixel in a predetermined column and a predetermined row of a print matrix.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method and system for managing multiple format fonts in an image generating device. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a method and system to store a font in a selected storage area, remove a selected font stored in the selected storage area, and locate a selected font stored in a selected storage area.

Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products for printing a document. Exemplary embodiments include retrieving a document having text and images, displaying the document on the display, displaying a print menu on the display, displaying a properties menu on the display, displaying a print quality menu on the display, displaying a more color options menu on the display, wherein the more color options menu includes “print images in color” and “print text in color” data fields, printing the document in black and white on the color printer, wherein the text is printed in color in response to receiving a print text in color selection signal, indicative of the selection device pointing at the print text in color data field, wherein the images are printed in color in response to receiving a print images in color selection signal, indicative of the selection device pointing at the print images in color data field.

Abstract: A mail server extracts a character unregistered in a portable terminal from received mail data and affixes the font data of the character concerned to the mail data or inserts a reading tag indicating the reading (pronunciation) of the character concerned into the mail data. The portable terminal additionally registers the font data affixed to the mail data into a font database before the received mail data are displayed. Furthermore, in the display processing of the mail data, a character for which the corresponding font data is unregistered is replaced by a no-font symbol and then displayed. Furthermore, the font of each character constituting the reading tag is read out and this font is displayed subsequently to the no-font symbol.

Abstract: The invention provides an apparatus, method, and program for producing small prints, in which function of using an input character string for transfer at different timing is further strengthened to improve usability of the user. In the invention, already produced input data includes information on the input character string already transferred to a print medium. Pieces of already produced input data are stored so that the number of pieces of already produced input data is not more than the upper limit number. In a series of processes starting from a direction for producing the print medium, the storage of the already produced input data is performed in the case of the first transfer for the input character string which is currently transferred.

Abstract: A document printing method includes receiving a print job of electronic document data representing a document including a security character string with at least one character defined in the electronic document data in terms of a security mark creation font. The security mark creation font is a scalable outline based font, wherein the security character string is defined with a selected security effect, and wherein the security mark creation font provides an indication of the selected security effect without implementing the security effect. An SI Font is selected that corresponds to the security mark creation font of the at least one character of the security character string. The SI Font includes a bitmap representation of the at least one character of the security character string. The SI Font is suitable for printing the security character string with the selected security effect.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus in as font managing system to manage a font, includes communication interface to download a file of a font having a use restriction, a storage unit to store the downloaded font file, the controller to determine whether the stored font file is usable if a document is requested to be printed with the font, and a print engine unit to print the document with the stored font if the stored font is usable.

Abstract: A computer program operates a printer to insert tabs into a multipage document. The physical tabs are stored in one of printer's insert bins. A graphical user display shows a bank of tabs in a layout table. A tab is activated by specifying a page for the tab. Text and graphics may be entered on the tab or selected from templates for labels and style. A layout template stores data on the layout of one or more standard banks of tabs. The computer program automatically balances the number to tabs and automatically deletes unused blocks of tabs.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus which combines a character string image with an image of image data and forms a combined image, including: a display section to display the character string image; and a control section to generate the character string image to be combined to the image and to display the character string image on the display section, wherein the control section controls the display section to display the character string generated with same font data as font data used for forming the character string image of the combined image on a sheet.

Abstract: A portable printer contains a print controller that acquires first ID of a first character printed in advance on an instant film from a wireless tag embedded in the instant film; acquires second ID of a second character contained in image data to be printed on the instant film from a header of the image data. The print controller makes a judgment based on a print permission table and the IDs of the first and second characters as to whether an image based on the image data is permitted to be printed together on the instant film. The print controller then performs an output based on a result of the judgment. The print permission table is stored in a storage portion and indicates whether the first character and the second character are allowed to be printed on a common instant film.

Abstract: A system/method is presented for scanning entire books or document all at once using an adaptive process where the book or document has known fonts and unknown fonts. The known fonts are processed through a verification system where sure words and error words are determined. Both the sure words and error words are sent to OCR training where they are re-OCR'ed and repeatedly verified until they meet a predetermined quality criteria. Characters or word not meeting the predetermined quality criteria receive additional OCR training until all the characters and words pass the predetermined quality criteria. Unknown fonts are scanned and clustered together by shape. Outliers in the shapes are manually key-in. Those symbols that are manually classified go to OCR training and then to the known type optimization process.

Abstract: Methods and structures for improved font management providing for selection of one or more subsets of a selected typeface font in a font management program. A user is presented with information identifying one or more subsets of related code points in a selected typeface in a font management program. By selecting one or more subsets from the presented information, the user may reduce wasted presentation or management of code points in the typeface that are not presently of interest to the user. For example, when managing a Unicode typeface, a user may be prompted to select one or more language subsets prior to printing/displaying a matrix of the glyphs of the selected typeface. The presentation of glyphs or other code point information may then be limited to only the selected one or more subsets.

Abstract: An application programming interface instantiates an ink analyzer object that receives document data for a document containing electronic ink content from a software application hosting the document and running on a first processing thread. The ink analyzer object then employs the first thread to make a copy of the document data, provides the copy of the document data to an electronic ink analysis process, and returns control of the first processing thread to the analysis process. After the analysis process has analyzed the electronic ink, the ink analyzer object reconciles the results of the analysis process with current document data for the document.

Abstract: The present invention aims to effectively control and administrate color profile data used by many and unspecified users in case of unitarily controlling and administrating processes such as updating of color profile data, deleting of the color profile data, and the like. To do so, the present invention is characterized by an image processing method in a color image forming system in which plural clients and a color image forming apparatus are connected through a network, wherein the color image forming apparatus holds at least one or more color profile data, holds client-classified discrimination information for the plural clients that accessed in regard to the color profile data, and judges in case of deleting the color profile data whether or not to delete the color profile data based on the client-classified discrimination information for the plural clients.

Abstract: A set of new printing functions are implemented as defining commands to make it possible to add graphic effects to a printout of a POS printer. These functions are based on a method of designating usually cyclically re-occurring byte strings, usually text in receipts, to act as triggers to launch the graphics function. These functions include optionally eliminating some text, adding graphic surrounds about designated lines, changing the color of designated lines, and inserting logos between or merging logos with text. Such usage need not make any changes to existing store lane checkout applications. Configuring new custom commands in POS printers permits defining byte string triggers occurring in receipt text that are used to trigger adding graphics to the receipt output.

Abstract: The present invention provides for visual enhancement of text. A text area is selected. A plurality of non-identical images of the text area are captured. Background information is removed from these images. The contrast characteristics of text area of the plurality of images are increased. The contrasted images are combined so as to increase their effective resolution. In an alternative embodiment, the text picture is broken up into a plurality of component colors, and these colors are then sharpened and recombined.

Abstract: When a second detector determines that a character image has a halftone (YES in #1) and a third detector (48) determines that a font size of the character image is equal to or greater than a threshold value ? and equal to or smaller than a threshold value ? (YES in step #4), a fourth detector determines whether a presently focused pixel constitutes a particular portion of a character (step #5). When the fourth detector determines that the pixel data of the presently focused pixel constitutes the particular portion of the character (YES in step #5), the image processing section sets the pixel data to be subjected to a second screen processing which is performed at a higher gradation level (step #6).

Abstract: Provided is a network board for generating print data in accordance with the information resources received from outside, and sending the print data to a printer, which can easily install or update a color conversion table or a printer driver, etc. necessary for generating the print data. Whereby, the network board for generating print data in accordance with the information resources received from outside, and sending the print data to a printer is configured to be able to, by itself, access a prescribed site on the network at the prescribed time, such as when the printer is tuned on, and appropriately download a color conversion table or a printer driver, etc. in order to utilize it.

Abstract: The described systems and methods are directed at converting a file with complex elements so that a legacy utilization device, such as a legacy printer, can properly process the file. The described systems may include a converter module with a modular filter pipeline. The converter module may identify elements with complex features in a file. Simpler features that approximate the complex features are determined. The identified elements in the file may be replaced with elements having the simpler features.

Abstract: A security font system and method are provided for generating traceable pages in an electronic document. The method comprises: accepting an electronic document; modifying font print instructions associated with selected characters; and, transmitting the document with the modified font print instructions to a destination. In some aspects, the method further comprises saving a record of the modified font print instructions. The font print instructions can be modified clandestinely. If a printed copy of the document with modified font instructions is created, the printed copy is identical to a printed copy of a document with no modified font print instructions, as the font modification can be made undetectable, or almost undetectable to the human eye. In other aspects, the method comprises: receiving an alleged copy of the electronic document with the modified font print instructions; and, comparing the modified font print instructions in the received document to the record.

Abstract: A method of controlling usage of printer macros stored in a printer includes detecting a request for use of a first one of the printer macros by a print job. Printer identification information contained in the first printer macro is compared to a printer identifier stored in the printer. Usage of the first printer macro by the printer is controlled based on the comparison.

Abstract: A method, computer program product and system for managing font resources using system independent references. A resource library may store a table, referred to herein as the “resource access table” that contains an entry for each base font resource. Each entry may include the following information on a base font resource: a native name, a file name, a unique identification, attributes, and possibly a link list used to identify any font resources that are linked to the base font resource. Since changes to the resource file such as updating a version of a font resource, changing the attributes of the font resource or changing the font resource's linked fonts, simply require an update to the resource access table, the data stream and the application program generating that data stream does not have to be changed.

Abstract: A text modification mechanism is provided for formatting data such that the information can be reasonably deciphered by a human, but cannot be easily recognized by computer recognition techniques. The text modification mechanism alters printed text so that computer recognition of characters becomes difficult. Modification of the text may be accomplished with manipulation of the fonts or the background. The mechanism may also modify the text based on user preferences.