Patent ID: 8139124

Claim:
An erroneous erasure determination apparatus, comprising: an erroneous erasure determination means for determining whether image data in an image file are likely to have been erroneously erased based on auxiliary information attached thereto which indicates whether the image file is recorded in a multi-page format, and information which indicates a number of image data recorded in the image file, wherein the erroneous erasure determination means comprises: a format judging unit that judges whether the image file comprises a file recorded in the multi-page format based on the auxiliary information; and an image data count judging unit that judges whether two or more image data are recorded in the image file, and determines that image data in the image file are likely to have been erroneously erased when the image file is judged by the format judging unit as recorded in the multi-page format and judged by the image data count judging unit that two or more image data are not recorded in the image file.