Patent ID: 7990561
Filing Date: 2011-08-02
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An image processing server comprising: an OCR necessity deciding unit that makes a decision as to whether or not OCR processing is necessary for image data generated in accordance with drawing commands of a printing job; a first data registering unit that, when said OCR necessity deciding unit decides that OCR processing is unnecessary, registers text data extracted from a text drawing command of the printing job in a database, as text data for retrieving the image data; an OCR unit that, when said OCR necessity deciding unit decides that OCR processing is necessary, extracts text data by performing OCR processing on the image data generated in accordance with the drawing commands of the printing job; and a second data registering unit that, when said OCR necessity deciding unit decides that OCR processing is necessary, registers the text data extracted by said OCR unit and the text data extracted from the text drawing command of the printing job in the database, as text data for retrieving the image data, wherein said OCR necessity deciding unit makes a decision as to whether or not OCR processing is necessary for the image data generated in accordance with drawing commands of the printing job in accordance with a difference between (i) text data generated by performing OCR processing on an image generated based on a previous printing job processed previously and (ii) text data extracted from a text drawing command of the previous printing job processed previously.