IMAGE INPUT SYSTEM

PURPOSE:To prevent memory capacity from being increased and to improve operability, by selecting only a picture data within a designated range. CONSTITUTION:When it is difficult to decide a required range only by the picture data before scanner input, a system to display images scanner-inputted on a display screen 5, and to designate the required range out of the above images by trial and error is compelled to be adopted. In such a case, the outline (upper half, or quarter in lower right) of a reading range is designated before the scanner input, and control so as not to read the data other than the one in the designated range by a scanner 3, is performed by a controller 2. In such a way, it is possible to reduce a memory capacity required for a computer. Also, read picture data within an approximate range is displayed on the display 5 out of them, and the operability can be improved by a system by which a detailed range is decided in a man-machine interface way.