JPH061473B2 - Slip processing device - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a slip processing apparatus that creates a desired slip based on data for slip processing described on a sheet and outputs the slip.

For example, a department store creates a delivery slip when a customer requests delivery of a product. Delivery slips are work slips (logistics copies or delivery slips) used at distribution centers that take out and package products, slips that are used as tags for products to be shipped (product sticker slips),
Vouchers (take-out slips or delivery copies) used in small-scale delivery points (depots) that connect the distribution center with each household, and used to obtain a proof mark to confirm that the product has been delivered to the customer. It is composed of a plurality of related form slips such as a slip (certificate slip). That is, when a department store receives a delivery request for a product, it creates delivery slips in a plurality of forms based on one piece of processed data such as the name of the product, the destination, and the client.

The delivery slip is for small customers such as individual customers,
In many cases, you will be asked to directly fill in certain items such as the addressee. That is, a department store prepares a booklet in which slips of a plurality of related forms are piled up, and uses carbon paper or thermal paper as slip paper to fill in predetermined items on the top slip. By receiving it, we are creating multiple related forms.

However, for a relatively large number of customers, that is, a customer who has 10 or more destinations, the department store side normally creates and processes the slip based on the purchase application form of the product submitted by the customer. .

During the period when gift requests for gifts from relatively large customers are concentrated, such as the year-end or year-end holidays, department stores process slips using one of the following slip processing methods.

Spirit method Copy method Handwriting method Among them, the spirit method chemically processes the purchase application filled in by the customer and prints it on the printing machine for each type of slip. Therefore, it is impossible to print one set of delivery slips at one time. Moreover, it is necessary that the form used for delivery, the individual name, etc. be printed in advance on the paper used for printing. Further, in the copying method, an overlay prepared for each client is overlaid on a purchase application form and copied to create a desired delivery slip.

However, in this method, it is necessary to prepare an overlay for each client for each type of delivery slip, which complicates the creation, storage, and copying work. Finally, in the handwriting method, the delivery slip made of thermal paper or the like is transcribed while watching the customer's memorandum. Therefore, in this case, a transcription error was unavoidable and the work efficiency was extremely lowered. In any case, it is necessary to sort the created delivery slips by product type or delivery area. These sorting operations are laborious, time consuming, uneconomical and inefficient.

Therefore, the inventors have developed a slip processing device capable of reading data from a paper filled in by a customer or the like, electronically editing it, sorting it, and printing it out (Japanese Patent Application No. 58792/1982). . The outline of this device will be described below.

FIG. 1 shows the configuration of this device. The slip processing device is mainly composed of a control unit 11, on which an operation panel 12, an image reading unit 13, a printer 14, and a storage unit 15 are arranged.
And the data discrimination unit 16 is connected. Reading unit 13
In response to an instruction from the operation panel 12, the user reads the form described on the paper shown as an example in FIG.

On the illustrated paper 23, a distribution form 24, a product attachment form 25, a delivery certificate form 26, and a certification form 27 are listed one by one. Control unit 1
Reference numeral 1 controls the image sensor and the optical system in the reading unit 13, and semi-permanently stores the obtained digital image signal in the form storage area 29 in the storage unit 15.

Next, the operator inputs a "gift purchase application form". FIG. 3 shows an example of this gift purchase application form. The gift purchase application form 31 includes the address, name, item name of the product to be delivered, unit price, and code for each recipient.
You can enter up to 0 ways. In this figure,
For the sake of convenience, the delivery address and name are indicated by numbers from to. Below the gift purchase application form 31, the address and name of the client are entered.

The reading unit 13 inputs the gift purchase application 31. The obtained digital image signal is stored in the slip raw data storage area 33 in the storage unit 15 under the control unit 11 to be stored in a file.

When the image of all the gift purchase application forms has been read, the slip processing device performs electronic editing. When the operator specifies the sorting method for each product, first, as a first step, the contents of the gift purchase application form are sorted by product code. For this reason, the control unit 17 reads the data written in the slip raw data storage area 33 for each client and transfers it to the data discriminating unit 16. The data discrimination unit 16 includes a recognition device that discriminates the code of the product from the image information. This recognition device is OC
This is the same as that of the R (optical character reader) except the reading unit. When the code is read, the contents of the slip are grouped for each code and written in the slip processed data storage area 34.

FIG. 4 shows, as an image 35, the state in which the gift purchase application form shown in FIG. 3 has been reorganized. Of course, the conversion table may be created without using the direct method of converting the image.
Further, the product code can be discriminated more easily if the gift purchase application form 31 is filled in with a bar code.

When image conversion or conversion table creation is completed, the form is stored using the form image stored in the form storage area 29, and the form is edited. For this reason, first, for the product with the smallest code number, the corresponding coordinates in the slip processing data storage area 34 are designated, and the "delivery address",
The "product name", "unit price", and "code" are read one by one together with the address and name of the "client". It is then overlaid with the corresponding area of the form image. The superimposed image may be transferred to the digital printer 14 as it is, or may be temporarily stored in the storage unit 15.

FIG. 5 shows the first part of the gift purchase application form 31 shown in FIG.
It shows an image 39 of a voucher created using the second column 37-1 and the “requester” column 38. Although the range of the data electronically transferred from the gift purchase application 31 varies depending on the forms 24 to 27, this can be easily realized by designating the range of coordinates to be designated for each form.

The image 39 of the slip thus created is sent to the printer 14 as a bit-serial signal similar to the signal obtained when the original is flat-scanned. Printer 14
Is a laser printer, for example, and makes a hard copy (slip sheet) of the image 39 shown in FIG. This voucher paper is made up of four types of vouchers joined together.
Each form slip is cut by a cutter (not shown) in the printer 14 and subsequently bound by the stapler device one by one, and then discharged to a discharge tray. That is, on the discharge tray, in the "Delivery destination" field of the gift purchase application form,
A spelled slip in which the contents of the first column 37-1 are written is first ejected, and then the second and subsequent columns 37-2,
One slip in which the contents of 37-3, ... Are sequentially written is discharged.

<Problems of the conventional technology> By the way, with this slip processing apparatus proposed earlier, it was not possible to know whether or not the slips were correctly issued by the required number of copies. One of the causes of this is that there are changes such as cancellation in the "Delivery destination" field of the gift purchase application form and cancellation of the gifts in this term. That is, if the slip processing device performs slip processing without accurately recognizing such changed items, a slip for an unnecessary "delivery destination" is issued. In addition, due to multiple feeding of the gift purchase application form by the document feeder and operator's operation mistake,
There were cases where the slips were issued twice or the number of copies did not match.

Vouchers are created according to the order of application forms for gifts, etc., to prevent double issuance, omission of issues, and mixing with other vouchers, but there are measures to completely eliminate such mistakes. I didn't. Therefore, conventionally, various checks have been performed on a slip created by this device to ensure the reliability of issuing the slip. This required considerable manpower and expense, and was not economical.

[Object of the Invention]

In view of the above circumstances, the present invention is a slip that can check the number of copies of a slip and display data related to the number of copies even if there is a change in the description content of the document from which the slip is created. It is an object of the present invention to provide a processing device.

[Structure of Invention]

In the present invention, as shown in principle in FIG. 6, a reading means 41 for reading a document placed on the platen, a storage means 42 for storing the read data, and a stored data among the stored data. Editing means 43 for extracting data relating to the contents of the slip and electronically editing the data for the desired slip, a printer 44 for printing the edited data and issuing the slip, and issuing for inputting the number of copies of the slip. Number of copies input means 45, counting means 46 for counting the number of copies of the slip issued from the printer 44, and number of issued copies input means 45
The slip processing apparatus is provided with a comparing means 47 for comparing the number of copies issued by the counter with the number of copies counted by the counting means 46.

Alternatively, as shown in principle in FIG. 7, a reading means 41 for reading the type of paper placed on the platen, a storage means 42 for storing the read data, and a slip of the stored data Extract the data about the configuration,
Editing means 43 for electronically editing data on a desired slip, a printer 44 for printing the edited data and issuing a slip, an issue copy number input means 45 for inputting the issue copy number of the slip, and an issue from the printer The slip processing device is provided with a counting means 46 for counting the number of copies of the slips to be printed, and a display means 49 for displaying the number of copies issued by the input copy number input means and the number of copies counted by the counting means, or a comparison result of these. .

Then, both the number of circulations that can be discriminated from the contents of the application form such as a gift and the number of circulations input by the number of circulations input means are compared to ensure the accuracy of the number of circulations. The operator can confirm the correctness of the number of circulations by displaying both circulations without having such an electrical comparison means. Of course, the comparison result may be displayed.

Note that the number of circulations input means may be a numeric keypad,
O to read the numbers on the application form for gifts, etc.
Numerical value reading means such as MR may be used.

〔Example〕

 The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to examples.

FIG. 8 shows the appearance of the slip processing device of this embodiment. This device is composed of two device parts connected by a connector (not shown). A platen 51 for reading a document, an automatic document feeding mechanism 52, and an operation panel 53 are arranged on the upper part of the device on the right side in the drawing. A document discharge tray 54 and a display 55 are arranged above the device on the left side in the figure, and a digital printer 56 is arranged inside the device. A data processing unit 57 centering on a CPU (central processing unit) is arranged inside the device portion on the right side. The voucher discharged from the digital printer 56 is designed to be discharged to a discharge tray (not shown) from a discharge port on the upper left side surface of the apparatus.

FIG. 9 shows the main part of the circuit of this slip processing apparatus.

The processing of slips by this slip processing apparatus will be described below in order.

Input of Form First, the operator inputs the form of the delivery slip into the slip processing device. For example, the paper 23 shown in FIG. 2 is used for this purpose. The paper 23 and the like are set on the platen portion 51, and a form input start button (not shown) on the operation panel 53 is pressed. When there are a plurality of forms to be input, the identification code of each form is also input. The identification code is input using, for example, a ten key on the operation panel 53.

When the form input start button is pressed, the CPU 61 detects this and the form input operation is performed according to the program written in the ROM 62. That is, the fluorescent lamp in the reading unit 63 arranged below the platen 51 is turned on, and the scan is started. At the same time, the one-dimensional image sensor in the reading unit 63 photoelectrically converts the optical image of the paper 23 or the like. The electric signal thus obtained is binarized and becomes a digital signal.

This digital signal is transferred to the external memory 64 under the control of the CPU 61 and semi-permanently stored in the form storage area 65 shown in FIG. The external memory 64 is composed of a magnetic disk, an optical disk, or the like. The data stored in the form storage area 65 will be read and used every time the delivery slip is issued. That is, except when there is a change in the form or a new form is added, it is not necessary to input the form in the next slip issuing work.

Input of purchase application form Next, the operator inputs a gift purchase application form. FIG. 11 shows a form and an example of a gift purchase application form. The gift purchase application 71 can be filled in with the address, name, item name of the product to be delivered, unit price, and code for each destination, up to 10 ways. In this figure, the delivery address and name are described in five ways from [A] to [E]. In the right corner of the gift purchase application 71, there is a reception number column 72, and the reception numbers are pre-printed in serial numbers. In the lower column, a column 73 in which the address of the client (sender) and the name [F] are written,
A column 74 showing the number of delivery destinations and a column 75 showing the total number of delivery destinations for the same client are arranged on this page.

For this client [F], the department store side has prepared six gift purchase application forms. This is created in advance based on the data when the gift was purchased last time. The department store clerk will examine the contents of the gift purchase application with the client [F], and specify cancellation or addition of the recipient or cancellation of the gift only this time on the application. For example, in FIG. 11, the delivery address and the names [D] and [E] are newly added. The delivery address and name [C] are deleted due to cancellation.

The attendant fills the mark entry field 76 arranged on the left side of the canceled or canceled addressee field with a pencil in black.
Further, other staff members (may be the same staff member) enter the number of delivery destinations in the two columns 74 and 75 for each same client. In the example shown in FIG. 11, since the total number of delivery destinations in the 6 gift purchase application forms is 53, the numerical value is the column 75.
Is filled in. Further, the number of destinations in the gift purchase application 71 shown in this figure is 4, excluding cancellation, so that number is entered in the column 74.

The operator sets the gift purchase application thus created in the automatic document feeder (ADF). Then, after specifying the form format and slip sorting method from the operation panel 53, the print start button is pressed.
Then, the first one of the gift purchase application form is platen 51.
Be transported to. An OMR (Optical Mark Reader) 78 is arranged in front of the platen 51, and the four columns 72, 74 of the gift purchase application form that have been conveyed are delivered.
Read 76.

Of these, the reception number listed in column 72 is the bus line 79
Is sent to a RAM (Random Access Memory) 81 and is temporarily stored therein. CPU61 is OMR78
Each time the gift purchase application is read by, the receipt number is referred to. If the receipt number is not a serial number or the same receipt number is duplicated, a warning message is displayed on the display 55. Simultaneously with this, ringing a buzzer in the display 55 is also effective. The operator can thereby know that the series of gift purchase application forms were not correctly sent one by one.

The number of valid destinations for the page stored in the column 74 is similarly stored in the RAM 81, the sum of the numbers of the same client is calculated, and the correctness of the total number described in the column 75 is checked. When the total number written in the column 75 is correct, the value is registered in the A register 82. When a mark is entered in the mark entry field 76, the total number of the marks is obtained and registered in the B register 83.

On the other hand, the content of the gift purchase application that has reached the platen 51 is read by the image sensor in the reading unit 63. This data relating to the contents of the slip is binarized, transferred to the external memory 64 under the control of the CPU 61, and stored in the slip raw data storage area 84 (FIG. 10). In the case of the client [F], the data regarding the six gift purchase application forms are sequentially read and filed in the slip raw data storage area 84 one after another.

Electronic Editing When the images of a series of gift purchase application forms are read, the slip processing device performs electronic editing. When the operator specifies the sorting method for each product, first, as a first step, the contents of the gift purchase application form are sorted by product code. Since this work and the subsequent slip editing work have been described in the previous proposal, description thereof will be omitted. It should be noted that, as shown in FIG. 10, the slip processed data storage area 86 for storing the processed data is the external memory 64 similarly.
It is provided inside.

Printout The digital printer 56 includes a laser oscillator, a scanning optical system, and a photoconductor that records on the principle of xerography. The image of the slip read from the external memory 64 is a digital printer 56 as a bit-serial signal similar to the signal obtained when the original is flat-scanned.
Sent to. The digital printer 56 modulates the laser light by this input signal and scans the photoconductor to form a latent image. Then, based on this, a slip sheet on which the toner image is fixed is created.

This slip sheet is a hard copy of the image 39 shown in FIG. 5, and has a form in which four types of slips are joined together. This slip sheet is cut into individual slips of each form by a cutter provided in the digital printer 56, subsequently bound by the stapler device one by one, and then discharged to a discharge tray. That is, in the ejection tray, a single slip in which the first column 37-1 is described in the "Delivery destination" column of the gift purchase application form is first ejected, and then the second column and subsequent columns are ejected. One slip in which the columns 37-2, 37-3, ... Are described in order is discharged.

Management of the number of copies to be issued How the management of the number of copies to be issued by such a slip processing apparatus will be described with reference to FIG.

When the series of reading the gift purchase application form is completed, the operation of managing the number of circulation of circulation is started. First, the CPU 62 determines whether the sum of the numbers written in the column 74 is equal to the total number written in the column 75 (step),
If they are equal (Y), the contents are registered in the A register 82 (step).

Next, as a hard copy of the image 39 shown in FIG. 5, four vouchers are printed (step). An optical sensor (not shown) placed in front of a slip bound by the stapler when it is discharged to the output tray.
Detects this, and the counter 88 counts the number. The count value is registered in the C register 89 (step).

In this example, the CPU 61 reads the contents of the A register 82 and the C register 89 at the stage when the processing of four slips has been performed, and displays the contents on the display 55 (step). The display contents at this time are as shown in FIG. The right side is the contents of the A register 82, and the left side is the contents of the C register 89.

After the processing of the four slips is completed, the CPU issues the slips four by four until all the slips of the same client [F] are issued (step). C register 8 of display 55
The contents of the display column 9 are added each time. The operator can grasp the progress of the issuance of the slip.

When all the vouchers have been issued (step; Y), C
The PU 61 supplies the contents of the A register 82 and the C register 89 to the comparator 91 to compare them (step). If they do not match (N), a display indicating an abnormality is displayed on the display 55 (step). This is the same as when the numbers of copies do not match in step.

As a case where the contents of both registers 82 and 89 do not match, for example, the following cases are possible.

(I) When a paper jam (jam) occurs in the digital printer 56.

(ii) There is an error in reading the mark in the mark entry column 76 (Fig. 11) in the process of processing the slip, and the slip is issued excessively.
On the contrary, when issued less.

In the latter case, the operator can operate the operation panel 53 to display the contents of the B register 83 on the display 55. If the number of marks is registered in the B register 83 in association with the reception number in the reception number column 72, the operator displays these contents and displays the gift purchase application form in which the mark is misread. Can be easily tracked.

[Deformability of invention]

The slip processing apparatus of the embodiment described above is provided with the comparator 91, and the number of circulations judged by the apparatus is compared with the numerical value input by the human. However, it is also possible to display both with an indicator and let the operator compare them, in which case no comparator is required.

Also, in the embodiment, the number of copies to be issued is entered in the gift purchase application form, but it is also possible to enter the numerical value directly by using the ten-key pad or the like in the operation panel 53. Further, in the embodiment, the display device for displaying visually is used, but it is also possible to use the display device for giving a warning by sound or the display device for displaying the contents by voice. Even when the visual display is performed, it is possible to blink the display content or change the display color when the abnormality is displayed, so that the warning effect can be enhanced.

Furthermore, in the embodiment, the OMR 78 is used to read the number of copies to be issued, but it is also possible to recognize characters and codes from the data obtained from the image sensor and read the necessary data.

Further, in the embodiment, the read application form is discharged to the document discharge tray as it is, but a stamper may be provided on the exit side of the platen 51 to stamp the processed application form with a processed mark. . The same application can be reproduced by using a so-called dropout color for this mark. If this mark can be detected by the OMR 78 or the like, it is possible to prevent double issuance of a slip due to an operator's mistake.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above, according to the present invention, since it is possible to manage the number of copies to be issued in parallel with the issuance of the slip, the processing of the slip is speeded up. Further, since the number of issued copies is managed by matching the number of issued sheets processed by the machine with the number of issued sheets input by a human, it is possible to perform management with extremely high reliability. In addition, according to the present invention, data relating to the contents of the slip is selectively extracted according to the presence or absence of a mark detected on the document by the mark detecting means, so that unnecessary data can be deleted to create the slip. You can

[Brief description of drawings]

1 to 5 are for explaining a conventionally proposed voucher processing apparatus, in which FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of the voucher processing apparatus, and FIG. 2 is an example of a voucher form. FIG. 3 is a plan view showing an example of a gift purchase application form, FIG. 4 is a plan view showing an example of a reorganized gift purchase application form, and FIG. FIG. 6 is a plan view showing an image, FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a first principled structure of the present invention, FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing a second principled structure of the present invention, and FIGS. FIG. 8 is a perspective view showing the external appearance of the slip processing apparatus, FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing the essential parts of the apparatus, and FIG. Memory configuration diagram showing the configuration of the external memory, Fig. 11 shows an example of filling out the gift purchase application form The plan view, FIG. 12 flowchart showing the administrative work of circulation, Fig. 13 is a plan view showing an example of the display contents of the display. 41 ... reading means, 42 ... storage means, 43 ... editing means, 44 ... printer, 45 ... issued copy number input means, 46 ... counting means, 47 ... comparison means, 49 ... display means, 53 ...... Operation panel, 55 …… Display, 56 …… Digital printer, 61 …… CPU, 63 …… Reading section, 64 …… External memory, 71 …… Gift purchase application form, 78 …… OMR, 88 …… Counter, 91 …… Comparator.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A reading means for reading data of a document placed on a platen, a storage means for storing data read by the reading means, and detection of a predetermined mark written on the document. Depending on the mark detecting means and whether or not each mark is detected by the mark detecting means, data relating to the contents of the slip is selectively selected from the data stored in the storage means in association with these marks in advance. Data extracting means for extracting, editing means for electronically editing the data extracted by the data extracting means, a printer for printing the edited data and issuing a voucher, and an issue number input for inputting the issue number of the voucher Means, counting means for counting the number of slips issued from the printer, and the number of issued copies input by the number-of-issues input means Document processing apparatus characterized by comprising a comparison means for comparing the number of copies that have been counted by the number means. 2. A reading means for reading data of a document placed on a platen, a storage means for storing data read by the reading means, and detection of a predetermined mark written on the document. Depending on the mark detecting means and whether or not each mark is detected by the mark detecting means, data relating to the contents of the slip is selectively selected from the data stored in the storage means in association with these marks in advance. Data extracting means for extracting, editing means for electronically editing the data extracted by the data extracting means, a printer for printing the edited data and issuing a voucher, and an issue number input for inputting the issue number of the voucher Means, counting means for counting the number of slips issued from the printer, and the number of issued copies input by the number-of-issues input means Document processing apparatus characterized by comprising a display means for displaying a by number of copies, or the result of these comparisons counted by the number means. 3. The slip processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the number-of-issues input means is a ten-key. 4. The number-of-issues input means is a numerical reading means for reading the number of circulations printed on a document placed on the platen.
The slip processing device described in the item.