Patent ID: 8452045

Claim:
An image processing apparatus, comprising: detection means for detecting character images included within an original document image and sizes of the character images; determination means for determining whether or not the sizes of the detected character images are smaller than a predetermined size; enlargement means for enlarging the sizes of the character images determined to be smaller than the predetermined size by said determination means; and layout means for, in a case that an object adjacent to the character images is a graph and the character images are scale characters to an axis of the graph, controlling said enlargement means to enlarge the sizes of the character images on a condition that each margin between the enlarged character images is not smaller than a predetermined distance, and laying out the enlarged character images at positions shifted in a direction perpendicular to the axis of the graph, wherein, in a case that the sizes of the enlarged character images do not reach the predetermined size when said enlargement means enlarges the sizes of the character images on the condition that each margin between the enlarged character images is not smaller than the predetermined distance, said layout means further controls said enlargement means to enlarge the graph.