Patent ID: 8649055

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising an image output apparatus and an image reading apparatus, wherein the image output apparatus includes: an entry order acceptance module that accepts an entry order in entry fields within a document; an information image generation module that generates an information image representing given information based on positional information representing a position in the document and the entry order accepted by the entry order acceptance module; a combining module that combines the information image generated by the information image generation module in the entry field within the document; and an image output module that outputs the document with the information image combined with the document by the combining module; and the image reading apparatus includes: a reading module that reads the information image which is outputted to a medium by the image output device and which is for extracting a position of writing with a writing instrument; an extraction module that extracts the entry order by analyzing the information image read out by the reading module; a determination module that makes a comparison between the entry order extracted by the extraction module from the information image read out by the reading module and the entry order extracted by the extraction module from the information image read out last time by the reading module, so as to determine whether or not an entry in an order different from the entry order is made; and an alarm module that issues an alarm when it is determined, by the determination module, that the entry in the order different from the entry order is made.