Patent ID: 8310744

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a rotation processing section for carrying out rotation processing with respect to a document image, in which a document is shown, so that a first reference direction from a reference side of the document to a side facing the reference side coincides with a second reference direction of the document image which has been subjected to the rotation processing; a top-to-bottom direction determining section for determining a top-to-bottom direction from a top side of the document shown in the document image to a lower side of the document; and a display control section for causing a display apparatus to display, before the rotation processing is carried out, a display image in which (i) the document, (ii) a mark indicating the reference side to a user, and (iii) a selection button for the user to select a target document to be subjected to the rotation processing are shown in accordance with the document image, the top-to-bottom direction determining section determining each top-to-bottom direction of a plurality of document images in a case of receiving data including the plurality of document images in which respective documents are shown, the display control section causing, for a combination of ones of the plurality of document images whose top-to-bottom directions coincide with each other, the display apparatus to display, as the display image, an image in which (i) each of the respective documents shown in said ones of the plurality of document images and (ii) a mark indicating each reference side of the respective documents to the user are shown, the rotation processing section carrying out collectively rotation processing with respect to ones of the plurality of document images in which respective documents selected as target documents are shown, in response to a command to carry out rotation processing.