Patent ID: 8351072

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a print control unit configured to cause a printing apparatus to print an image on a sheet so that a user can, by adding information on the sheet, designate a group corresponding to each of one or more images individually; an acquiring unit configured to acquire a read image obtained by reading, by a reading apparatus, of the sheet printed by the print control unit and on which information is added by a user; a determining unit configured to determine a group corresponding to each of the one or more images designated by the user individually, based on the read image acquired by the acquiring unit; a specifying unit configured, in a case where the determining unit determines a plurality of groups, to sort images for each of the plurality of groups and to specify a layout method for the sorted images from a plurality of layout methods in accordance with an instruction by a user; and an outputting unit configured to, in a case where the determining unit determines the plurality of groups, lay out images included in the plurality of groups by using the layout method specified by the specifying unit, and output the laid out images.