Patent ID: 11908215
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 17:
18. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to perform a control method of an information processing apparatus, the control method comprising:
separating a first image area including handwritten characters from a document image obtained by scanning a document;
extracting one or more character blocks each of which consists of some of the handwritten characters in proximity to one another and having a common baseline from the separated first image area;
generating, in a case where a plurality of character blocks is extracted from the first image area in the extracting, a combined single character block by combining character blocks based on a position relationship of the plurality of character blocks; and
performing optical character recognition processing for the generated combined single character block to obtain a character recognition result of the generated combined single character block.