Patent ID: 7593120

Claim:
An image processing apparatus which executes, on the basis of a process performed for an image, a process associated with billing of the process performed on the image, comprising: input means for inputting raster image data; dividing means for dividing the raster image data input by said input means into objects of respective attributes; display means for displaying division results of said dividing means and charge information representing a consideration accrued from a vectorized process for the division results; instructing means for instructing whether to execute the vectorized process for the division results displayed on said display means; executing means for executing, on the basis of an instruction content of said instructing means, the vectorized process of converting the raster image data into vector data; setting means for setting a priority of attributes of objects divided by said dividing mean; and adjustment means for automatically adjusting the order of the objects to be vectorized by said vectorized process on the basis of the setting by said setting means.