Patent ID: 8467085

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: an image data acquiring portion to acquire image data; a region extracting portion to extract one or more regions having a predetermined attribute from said acquired image data; a selecting portion to select one region from among one or more regions extracted by said region extracting portion; a reduction portion to reduce a data amount of said image data by processing said selected region in a manner predetermined for the attribute of the region; a comparing portion to compare the data amount of the image data after the data amount has been reduced by said reduction portion with a predetermined target value; said selecting portion selecting one region from among said plurality of regions sequentially until said comparing portion determines that the data amount of the image data is not more than said target value; and a reduction ratio calculating portion to calculate a ratio of data reduction amount based on the data amount of said acquired image data and said target value, wherein said selecting portion includes a selecting order determining portion to determine the order of selecting one region from among said extracted regions on the basis of said calculated ratio.