Patent ID: 8482785

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: an acquiring unit configured to acquire a read image obtained by reading of one or more originals which are arranged together on an original plate of a reading apparatus and are read; a first cropping unit configured to execute a first cropping method for cropping one image area from the read image acquired by the acquiring unit; a second cropping unit configured to execute a second cropping method for cropping individually a plurality of image areas from the read image acquired by the acquiring unit; a specifying unit configured to specify one or more candidate regions corresponding to the one or more originals in the read image acquired by the acquiring unit; a determining unit configured to determine a type of the one or more candidate regions corresponding to the one or more originals specified by the specifying unit, by analyzing the one or more candidate regions in the read image; and an outputting unit configured to select a cropping method to be executed on the read image and to output one or more images cropped by the selected cropping method, wherein the outputting unit (1) selects the first cropping method responsive to a determination by the determining unit that the one or more candidate regions include a characters region and a picture region, and outputs an image including the characters region and the picture region cropped from the read image by the first cropping unit, and (2) selects the second cropping method responsive to a determination by the determining unit that all of the one or more candidate regions are picture regions, and outputs individually a plurality of images corresponding to the picture regions cropped from the read image by the second cropping unit.