Patent ID: 7889405

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a finished-image generating unit configured to generate a finished image showing a result of a process performed on a target image according to various function setting items; a transparent-finished-image generating unit configured to generate, when the target image extends to a plurality of pages, a transparent finished image using an adjustable transparent parameter value from a continuous range of adjustable transparent parameter values to adjust a transparency of a non-image portion of each of the pages of the finished image to a predetermined transparency; and a transparent-finished-image display unit configured to form the transparent finished image in a stack, and to display a stacked transparent finished image on a display unit such that an image portion of the transparent finished image is seen through the non-image portion, wherein the process performed on the target image includes calculating characteristic values of the target image, the characteristic values including a document state characteristic value, an image characteristic value, and a layout characteristic value.