Patent ID: 7729540
Filing Date: 2010-06-01
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. A translation device comprising: a layout analysis unit that performs a layout analysis on an input image representing a figure-containing document and identifying a character area and a figure area in the input image; a character recognition unit that outputs character-area-character data by performing a character recognition process on an image of the character area of the input image, and outputting figure-area-character data by performing a character recognition process on characters existing in an image of the figure area of the input image; a translation processing unit that outputs character-area-character data by performing a translation process on the character-area-character data, and outputting figure-area-character data by performing a translation process on the figure-area-character data; a layout configuration processing unit that generates figure-containing-translation data of one or more than one page, the data including in a character area character-area-character data and in a figure area both figure-area-character data and an image excluding figure-area-character data from a figure area of the input image; a figure identification information searching unit that searches figure identification information used to identify a figure contained in a character area of the figure-containing-translation data; a linked page number searching unit that searches a page number linked to figure identification information identified by the figure identification information searching unit in a character area of the figure-containing-translation data; a page number extracting unit that extracts a page number of a page included in a figure area of figure identification information identified by the figure identification information searching unit in the figure-containing-translation data; and a page number rewriting unit that rewrites a page number linked to figure identification information identified by the linked page number searching unit in a character area of the figure-containing-translation data to the page number of a page included in a figure area of the figure identification information extracted by the page number extracting unit.