Patent ID: 8045209

Claim:
An image processing apparatus, comprising: a detecting section to detect blank space areas in each page of a document; an additional image designating section to designate an additional image to be added to each page of the document; a first determining section to determine a horizontal×vertical size of a largest blank space area in each page of the document, and to determine a maximum uniform blank space area size, which does not exceed the horizontal size of the largest blank space area in any page of the document and which does not exceed the vertical size of the largest blank space area in any page of the document, by comparing all of the determined horizontal×vertical sizes of the largest blank space areas on all of the pages of the document; a second determining section to determine an image size of the additional image that is to be uniform on each page of the document based on the determined maximum uniform blank space area size; and a combining section to combine the additional image on each page of the document in the image size determined by the second determining section; wherein the first determining section, the second determining section and the combining section operate in sequence, such that the first determining section operates prior to the second determining section and the second determining section operates prior to the combining section.