Patent ID: 7995869

Claim:
An information processing apparatus configured to generate object information from image information, the information processing apparatus comprising: an image input part configured to obtain image information; and a main process part including a CPU and a storage part connected to the image input part via a bus, the storage part storing a program for causing the CPU to have functions, wherein the CPU includes functional parts performing the functions when the CPU reads the program stored in the storage part, including: an object dividing part configured to extract an object from the image information; an image reference information generation part configured to generate object information using image reference information if the object is composed of an image whose data amount is greater than a predetermined amount, the image reference information having a small amount of data compared to the data amount of the image; and an object data obtaining part configured to obtain text data of the object and to generate object information having the text data if the object is composed of characters whose data amount is smaller than the predetermined amount.