Patent ID: 8718364
Filing Date: 2014-05-06
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for digitizing a document including a table, the apparatus comprising a processor and a memory, wherein the processor functions as: a region extraction unit configured to extract region data containing details of regions occupied by table objects included in document image data; a table structure analysis unit configured to analyze the region data relating to the table objects and to extract table structure information relating to the table objects; a sheet generation unit configured to generate, based on the region data and the table structure information related to the table objects, a display spreadsheet for reproducing an appearance of the table objects in the document image data and edit spreadsheets for editing the table objects, each of the edit spreadsheets corresponding to each of the table objects, wherein the table structure information related to each of the table objects is represented using cells of the edit spreadsheets, and the display spreadsheet includes an instruction to place rendering images of the edit spreadsheets as floating objects on the display spreadsheet; and an electronic-document generation unit configured to generate an electronic workbook document which can be displayed and edited by a spreadsheet application, the generated electronic workbook document including the display spreadsheet and the edit spreadsheets generated by said sheet generation unit as spreadsheets of the generated electronic workbook document, wherein the display spreadsheet is a spreadsheet different from the edit spreadsheets.