Method and apparatus to insert a scanned document

Abstract

A method of inserting a scanned document includes inputting a user command to select a position in a first document file where to insert a second document file, generating a file corresponding to the second document file, to have same format as the first document file, and generating a third document file in which the second document file is inserted in the first document file, at the selected position.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method of inserting a scanned document comprising:
 inputting a user command to select a position in a first document file where to insert a second document file;   generating the second document file, to have the same format as the first document file; and   generating a third document file in which the second document file is inserted in the first document file, at the selected position.   
     
     
         2 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the generating of the second document file comprises:
 scanning the second document and generating scan data of the second document; and   adding an information header with respect to the second document to the scan data of the second document.   
     
     
         3 . The method as claimed in  claim 2 , wherein the generating of the second document file further comprises compressing the scan data of the second document in a compression format for facsimile transmission. 
     
     
         4 . The method as claimed in  claim 3 , wherein the compression format for facsimile transmission is one of MR, MH, and MMR. 
     
     
         5 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the generating of the third document file comprises:
 changing the first document position information based on the selected position to insert the second document file in the first document file; and   generating the third document file in which the second document file is inserted in the first document file, based on the changed first document position information.   
     
     
         6 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the format of the first document file is one of PS, PDF, and TIFF. 
     
     
         7 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the generating of the third document file comprises receiving a new file name to store the third document file. 
     
     
         8 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein generating of the third document file comprises writing the third document file with same name as the first document file. 
     
     
         9 . A computer-readable recording medium containing computer readable codes to perform a method of inserting a scanned document, the method comprising:
 inputting a user command to select a position in a first document file where to insert a second document file;   generating the second document file to have the same format as the first document file; and   generating a third document file in which the second document file is inserted in the first document file, at the selected position.   
     
     
         10 . An apparatus to insert a scanned document comprising:
 a user interface portion to input a user command to selected a position where a document is inserted in a first document file;   a second document file generating portion to generate a second document file corresponding to a format of the first document file from scan data of the document; and   a third document file generation portion to generate a third document file in which the second document file is inserted in the first document file, based on the selected position where the second document is inserted.   
     
     
         11 . The apparatus as claimed in  claim 10 , wherein the second file generation portion comprises:
 a scan portion to scan the document and to generate scan data of the document as the second document file; and   a header insertion portion to insert a head to indicate information on the second document in the generated scan data of the second document file.   
     
     
         12 . The apparatus as claimed in  claim 11 , wherein the second file generation portion further comprises a compression portion to compress the generated scan data of the document in a compression format for facsimile transmission as the second document file. 
     
     
         13 . The apparatus as claimed in  claim 12 , wherein the compression format for facsimile transmission is one of MR, MH, and MMR. 
     
     
         14 . The apparatus as claimed in  claim 11 , wherein the third document file generation portion comprises:
 a position information change portion to change information on a position of the first document file based on the selected position where the document is inserted, so that the second document file is inserted at the selected position in the first document file; and   a file generation portion to generate the third document file in which the second document file is inserted in the first document file, based on the changed information on the position of the first document file.   
     
     
         15 . The apparatus as claimed in  claim 14 , wherein the format of the first document file is one of PS, PDF, and TIFF. 
     
     
         16 . The apparatus as claimed in  claim 14 , wherein the third file generation portion stores a new file name as a name of the third document file. 
     
     
         17 . The apparatus as claimed in  claim 14 , wherein the third file generation portion writes the third document file over the first document file. 
     
     
         18 . A method of inserting a scanned document into a first document file including one or more documents of at least one page long comprising:
 generating a user interface to allow a user to choose a name of a first document file, a selected position in the first document file where to insert a second document file, a name of a third document file;   converting the second document file in the same format as the first document;   generating a third document file by modifying the first document file according to the insertion of the second document file at the selected position; and   storing the third document file using the name of a third document file.   
     
     
         19 . A method of inserting a scanned file into a first image file at a selected position in the first file, when the first file has a format including structural information, the method comprising:
 recovering the first image file from a memory and displaying the first image file structural information;   selecting the position in the first file where to insert the scanned file according to the first image file structural information;   modifying the first image file structural information to reflect the insertion of the scanned file into the first image file;   generating a merger image file that has the content of the scanned file inserted into the first file at the selected position, has same format as the first image file and contains the modified first file structure information; and   saving the merger image file in the memory, unless another scan file insertion in same file follows.