摘要 |
PURPOSE:To automatically prepare a routine document without an operator's operation by only actuating to a document preparing program from a work program by constituting the device so that a rule related to generation of a sentence and a rule for executing the format conversion of image data can be applied to the document preparing program. CONSTITUTION:In a storage means 14, a first file 143 in which a routine document containing format information given a 'key' to a document element to be substituted is described, and a second file 144 in which a rule to be processed at every kind of the 'key' in advance is described are stored. In such a state, the 'key' is retrieved from a first file 143 by a retrieving means 135, and in order to obtain data corresponding to the 'key' by referring to the rule of a second file 144, a processing for inquiry to a work program 11 is executed. Data of a document element to be substituted, obtained, based on its result is substituted to the corresponding substitution part by a substituting means 134. |