Patent ID: 8384920

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: an image scanning and vectorization unit configured to scan and vectorize a first document; and a job setting unit configured, while the image scanning and vectorization unit is scanning the first document and before the image scanning and vectorization unit has completed vectorizing the first document, to (a) make available a user-interface configured to identify a plurality of documents and allow a user to select a document out of the plurality of documents, the plurality of documents including documents for which vectorization has been completed and documents for which vectorization is in process but not yet completed, the documents for which vectorization is in process but not yet completed including the first document, and (b), after a user selects, via the user-interface, the first document out of the plurality of documents identified by the user-interface, allow a user to input settings for a job to be executed on vectorized data representing the first document completely vectorized by the image scanning and vectorization unit.