Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Eiichi Yamauchi

Hiroshi Iida

Takeshi Kurokawa

An input sheet system for reading an input sheet on which an instruction from a user is described, acquiring the instruction from the user on the basis of the read result, and performing information processing according to the instruction. When a form creator creates the appearance of a form by arranging symbols of software components registered on a component library on a form image, a form editor automatically creates a form document describing the location relationship of the symbols. When an input sheet with user's instructions filled in is read into the system, the system determines the processing order of the software components corresponding to the symbols on the basis of the location relationship of the symbols described on the form document and carries out the processing in this order.

Input sheet creating and processing system

A novel input device and for an information processing system for carrying out a process on the basis of input data, the input device is disclosed. In the input device, the output unit develops instructive-document form information and outputs an instructive document to which an entry is not yet made by a user. The extracting unit extracts analysis information for analyzing an instructive document to which an entry has been made by the user from the instructive-document form information. The storing unit stores the extracted analysis information. The analyzing unit analyzes the information on the received instructive document after a user makes an entry to thereto while referring to the analysis information. With such an arrangement, the input device receives the information on the instructive document having entries made thereto, and inputs information obtained by the process of analyzing the received information to the information processing system.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Eiichi Yamauchi