Patent ID: 8228522

Claim:
A document data management apparatus comprising: a processor; a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, the memory having stored therein computer-executable instructions configured to implement the document data management apparatus, including: a document data acquisition unit configured to acquire document data read and digitized by an image reading apparatus; a reliability determination unit configured to perform a layout analysis on the document data to determine whether the document data corresponds to a scanned image having a registered format, to compare a character string of an object extracted by the layout analysis with a specified character string corresponding to a kind of the object if the document data corresponds to a scanned image having the registered format, and to determine reliability of an image reading processing of the image reading apparatus for the document data based at least in part on a determined correspondence between the character string of the object and the specified character string, wherein the specified character string is determined based on the registered format; and a storage prohibition unit configured to prohibit, with respect to the document data for which the reliability determined by the reliability determination unit is lower than a specified threshold value, storage of the document data.