Patent ID: 8850359

Claim:
An image processing method executed by an image processor comprising an image reading unit, a displaying unit, a storage unit, and a control unit, wherein the storage unit includes an image data storage unit that stores image data set which are read from documents by the image reading unit, and keywords associated with the image data, the method including: a keyword obtaining step of obtaining the keyword based on the image data stored in the image data storage unit; a keyword analyzing step of obtaining keyword information of the keyword by analyzing the keyword obtained at the keyword obtaining step, wherein the keyword information includes only information regarding the number of the keywords or the number of characters of the keywords; an image analyzing step of obtaining color information of the image data by analyzing the image data; a keyword display format deciding step of deciding a display format of the keyword based on the keyword information obtained at the keyword analyzing step and the color information obtained at the image analyzing step, wherein the display format includes information regarding the number of key words, the size of the character, the color of the character, and the displaying position, wherein the size of the character is increased when the number of key words decreased; and a thumbnail image with keyword displaying step of displaying the image data set in thumbnail form, and the keywords obtained at the keyword obtaining step in thumbnail form on the displaying unit, with the keyword being overlapped with the thumbnail, based on the display format decided at the keyword display format deciding step.