Data generation apparatus, data generation method, and computer-readable medium for assigning a thumb index for pages of a book

摘要

A data generation apparatus for generating data to be used to for bookbinding by bundling a plurality of paper sheets into a book form, comprises: a determination unit configured to determine based on a criterion defined in advance for a characteristic of the book whether to assign a thumb index for each page of the book; and a generation unit configured to generate, for a page to which the determination unit has determined to assign the thumb index, data that arranges the thumb index to be printed at a fore edge of the page of the book.

主权项

1. A data generation apparatus for generating data to be used for bookbinding by bundling a plurality of paper sheets into a book form, comprising:
a determination unit configured to determine based on a criterion defined in advance for a characteristic of the book whether to assign a thumb index for each page of the book; and a generation unit configured to generate, for a page to which said determination unit has determined to assign the thumb index, data that arranges the thumb index to be printed at a fore edge of the page of the book, wherein said determination unit determines to assign the thumb index when, as the characteristic of the book, the number of pieces of classification information to which image data included in the book belong falls within a predetermined range defined based on the number of pages of the book.