Patent ID: 8842928

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a document-type determining unit that determines what type of document a document is on the basis of read information obtained as a result of reading the document by using a document reader; a compression-format setting unit that sets, on the basis of the type of document determined by the document-type determining unit, a compression format used for generating image data from the read information; a generator that compresses the read information by using the compression format set by the compression-format setting unit so as to generate image data corresponding to the document; and a plural-page setting unit that determines, when the document includes a plurality of pages, whether a compression format is to be set for each of the plurality of pages, wherein, when the plural-page setting unit determines that the compression format is not to be set for each of the plurality of pages, the generator generates image data corresponding to all the plurality of pages by using the compression format set for a first page.