Hitachi, Ltd.

Hideko Kagimasa

Toru Takahashi

Motohide Kokunishi

Mikihiko Tokunaga

Tetsuzou Uehara

Kenji Shimoi

A document information management method includes the steps to be executed by: a document registration program of storing a document in a document storage unit in accordance with a registered document by a user, document properties and a user profile, and forming document query and query structure indices of document properties and the user profile to store these indices in a query data storage unit and to further form several seeds documents; a related document retrieval program of retrieving a query data storage unit by using the seeds documents as query expressions to obtain query results of the document, the document properties and the user profile; and a related information notification program of generating related information of the document for each of the query results, and notifying the related information for each notice destination, including the related information of the document, of the document properties and of the user profile.

Method and apparatus for document information management

In a document information management system, an editable form of document information and a reference-only form of the document information are managed. Document information is offered in only the editable form to users desiring updating of document information. When this document information is utilized, a subsequent utilization state of the document information is followed.

Method and system for managing documents

A line thickening method and system therefor, which holds skeleton line data of characters consisting of the kinds of lines relative to the types of shapes of lines comprising a character and sequence of coordinates of a plurality of points providing the end positions of the skeleton lines, the thickening process utilizes the kinds of lines of the end positions of the skeleton lines inside a character box for each character, and whenever necessary, one of a plurality of processes is selected for thickening, wherein thickening width data are previously stored for the right and left sides of the direction of each skeleton line viewing from one of the end positions of the skeleton line.

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Yokohama, Japan

Hideko Kagimasa