Patent ID: 8228553

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: an image retrieving unit configured to retrieve image information of a revision document, which includes revision information having area definitions and position numbers corresponding to each of the area definitions; an image contents analyzing unit configured to analyze a hierarchical structure of image construction blocks that define an image construction in the image information retrieved by the image retrieving unit; a processing target block selecting unit configured to select the image construction blocks to be processed resulting from the analysis conducted by the image contents analyzing unit, based on positions of the area definitions on the revision document; a number allocating unit configured to allocate position numbers contained in the image information of the revision document, with respect to the image construction blocks selected by the processing target block selecting unit; a re-positioning instruction image retrieving unit configured to retrieve image information of a re-position instruction sheet, which includes the position numbers in locations different from the locations of the area definitions corresponding to each of the position numbers of the revision document; a position number recognizing unit configured to recognize the position numbers and positions of the position numbers in the re-positioning instruction image and position coordinates of each frame for repositioning, which are written in the re-positioning instruction sheet, as re-positioning instructions; and a re-positioning unit configured to re-position the image construction blocks in such a way that the blocks are fit into the position coordinates of each frame recognized by the position number recognizing unit.