CUTTING PROCESSOR FOR IMAGE FIELD

摘要

Printed images in fields on a document are scanned (10) along a plurality of scan lines producing image data for each line. A chain of sets of control instruction, each set relating to an image field, is stored. The data for each scan line is processed (17, 18, 19) by the sets of instructions in succession. When the image in a field has been completely processed the corresponding set of control instructions is deleted from the chain of sets of instructions (17).