Patent ID: 8447143
Filing Date: 2013-05-21
Classification: G06K,G06T

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus, comprising: a character recognition component that performs character recognition on characters mixed in an entity based on image data obtained by reading, as an image, a document containing entities in which characters are mixed; a determining component that determines, when document data is generated that contains first data representing the document and representing the entity in which the characters are mixed and second data containing character code data of the characters recognized by the character recognition component and representing a character block displaying the characters represented by the character code data, whether to hide the character block represented by the second data behind the entity represented by the first data or to display the character block represented by the second data in front of the entity represented by the first data when the document represented by the document data is displayed, based on at least one of lightness or distribution of the lightness of a background region around the characters of the entity, a number of characters or a number of lines of the characters in the entity, lightness of a region of the characters in the entity, accuracy of the character recognition by the character recognition component, a size of the characters in the entity, or a type of the entity; and a generating component that generates the document data for which a front/back relationship of a display between the character block and the entity when the document is displayed has been set according to a determination result of the determining component.