Patent ID: 8503786
Filing Date: 2013-08-06
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. A document image generation apparatus that generates, on the basis of an image representing a document including plural lines, an image representing a supplementary annotation added document in which a supplementary annotation corresponding to a word or a phrase composed of plural words included in the document is added, comprising: an original document image obtaining component configured to obtain an original document image representing a document, wherein the original document image obtaining component is configured to obtain the original document image from a scanner, and wherein further the document is a text document; a character recognizing component including a memory and processor configured to recognize a character included in the original document image obtained by the original document image obtaining component and identifies a position of the character in the original document image; a supplementary annotation obtaining component including a memory and processor configured to determine a meaning of a word or a phrase included in the document constructed of a plurality of the recognized characters by the character recognizing component through a natural language processing performed on the document, and obtains a supplementary annotation corresponding to the meaning of each word or phrase; a position determining component including a memory and processor configured to determine, as a position at which the obtained supplementary annotation corresponding to each word or phrase should be placed in a document, a position in an interline space near a word or a phrase in an original document image on the basis of a position of the character recognized by the character recognizing component, wherein the position determining component further comprises, an image generator including a memory and processor configured to generate an image representing a supplementary annotation added document by superimposing a supplementary annotation text layer on an original document image layer configured from an original document image, the supplementary annotation text layer including each supplementary annotation placed at a position corresponding to a position determined in the original document image by the position determining component.