Patent ID: 8542419

Claim:
An image processing apparatus, comprising: a scanning unit that scans a first image that is an image in an original; a first image processing unit that carries out first image processing on image data depicting the first image; a first determination unit that determines whether the first image in the original scanned by the scanning unit is a chromatic image or an achromatic image; a determination control unit that determines whether a second image is a chromatic image or an achromatic image based on at least one of two results: a result of a determination whether a second image serving as a target of second image processing to be performed after the first image processing is a chromatic image or an achromatic image, and a determination result determined by the first determination unit; a second image processing unit that carries out the second image processing on the second image based on a result of the determination control unit; an input receiving unit that receives operation input instructing to be output from the image in the original and to determine the second image that is an output target image serving as the target to be output from among the images in the original; a second determination unit that determines the output target image according to the operation input received by the input receiving unit; and a third determination unit that determines whether the output target image determined by the second determination unit is a chromatic image or an achromatic image, wherein the determination control unit determines whether the output target image is a chromatic image or an achromatic image based on at least one result: the determination result determined by the first determination unit and the determination result determined by the second determination unit.