Patent ID: 7860266

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: an input unit adapted to input image information including a plurality of image blocks; a memory adapted to store the image information including the plurality of image blocks inputted by the input unit; a type recognizing unit adapted to recognize a first type of image blocks to be vectorized or a second type of image blocks not to be vectorized, the first type of image blocks and the second type of image blocks being included in the plurality of image blocks stored in the memory; a location recognizing unit adapted to recognize locations of the plurality of image blocks on the inputted image information; a vectorization unit adapted to attempt to vectorize the first type of image blocks recognized by the type recognizing unit; a superimposing unit adapted to superimpose specific image information on image blocks of the first type that the vectorization unit fails to vectorize, the specific image information enabling a user to visually discriminate image blocks of the first type that are successfully vectorized and image blocks of the first type that the vectorization unit has failed to vectorize; and an output unit adapted to output image information including the first type of image blocks which are successfully vectorized and the first type of image blocks on which the specific image information is superimposed so that the vectorized image blocks and the superimposed image blocks are located on the outputted image information based on the locations recognized by the location recognizing unit.