Patent ID: 8432555
Filing Date: 2013-04-30
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a document image acquiring unit that acquires a document image representing a document; a third specifying unit that specifies a first row and a second row in the document image, the first row comprising a first bullet and first text and the second row comprising a second bullet and second text; a first specifying unit that specifies a width of a vertical scan area in which bullets in rows of the document image are to be detected, scans the vertical scan area in the first row, detects the first bullet in the vertical scan area of the first row, scans the vertical scan area in the second row, detects the bullet in the vertical scan area of the second row, performs a comparison of the detected first bullet and the detected second bullet, determines that the first bullet matches the second bullet based on a result of the comparison, and determines a first position in the document image of the matching first bullet in the first row and a second position in the document image of the matching second bullet in the second row based on a result of the matching; and a second specifying unit that specifies a position of an item in the document, based on the first position and the second position, the item comprising information beginning at the first position and ending at a row in the document image preceding the second position.