Patent ID: 7609889

Claim:
A web based OCR system including an OCR service apparatus that communicates with a web browser of a client apparatus, the OCR service apparatus comprising: a storage storing an original image; a converter unit for converting the original image into a converted image of a predetermined format for a transmission; a sending unit for sending the converted image to the web browser of said client apparatus; a receiving unit for receiving a control instruction of a character recognition process sent from the web browser of said client apparatus after an image processing has been executed for the converted image in the web browser of said client apparatus, wherein the received control instruction includes a parameter of the image processing which has been executed for the converted image in the web browser of said client apparatus; and a character recognition processing unit for executing the image processing for the stored original image based on the parameter included in the control instruction and executing the character recognition process for the original image for which the image processing has been executed.