Patent ID: 8736869

Claim:
A layout print system, comprising: a storage configured to store a plurality of electronic data sets representing pages of image data, each electronic data set having its own unique document IDs attached thereto; a printing image generating apparatus configured to generate printing image data based on the stored electronic data sets, and including an acquisition section configured to acquire the plural electronic data sets with the unique document IDs attached thereto from the storage, an identification section configured to identify a type of a document form for each of the plural electronic data sets acquired by the acquisition section, a weight value determination section configured to determine a weight value for each of the plural electronic data sets based on the identified type of the document form identified by the identification section, and a printing image generating section configured to generate the printing image data by arranging the plural electronic data sets on a layout template having a plurality of layout regions based on the weight value for each of the plural electronic data sets determined by the weight value determination section, reduce individual sizes of the plural electronic data sets, respectively, based on the layout template and attaching identification information adjacent to each of the plural electronic data sets arranged on the layout template, each identification information corresponding to the unique document ID of each electronic data set; a printer configured to print the printing image data generated by the printing image generating section; and a display apparatus including an information identification reader provided thereto to read the identification information printed on a printing medium, and configured to display a desired one of the electronic data sets by carrying out identification processing based on the identification information, wherein the printing image generating apparatus includes, a character-string dictionary including registered character strings extracted by at least one of optical character recognition (OCR) and language analysis processing, the character-string dictionary also including weight values associated with the registered character strings, and the weight value determination section increments a weight value associated with a first character string contained in one of the electronic data sets, when the first character string is matched with one of the registered character strings.