Patent ID: 9275280
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: G06F,G06K

Claim Text:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit that acquires, via an image processing device, region information which is information regarding a region in a document, line information which is information regarding a line in the region, and character information which is information regarding a character in the line; a determination unit that determines whether or not a region including a line indicated by line information is in left alignment on the basis of the line information acquired by the acquisition unit wherein, when a target language of the document is a language which is not regulated such that line ends are aligned, the determination unit changes line information on the basis of character information regarding a character in the next line of a line indicated by the line information and then determines whether or not a region including the line indicated by the line information is in left alignment, and wherein the changes of line information refers to changing information indicating a length of a line in the line information; a first division unit that divides a region, determined as not being in left alignment by the determination unit, that includes a character indicated by character information into paragraph regions or itemized regions on the basis of the character information acquired by the acquisition unit; an analysis unit that analyzes an indent of a line in a region determined as being in left alignment by the determination unit; a second division unit that divides the region determined as being in left alignment by the determination unit on the basis of the analysis result by the analysis unit, into paragraph regions or itemized regions; and an output unit that outputs both: (i) the division result by the first division unit for the region determined as not being in left alignment by the determination unit, and (ii) the division result by the second division unit for the region determined as being in left alignment by the determination unit.