Patent ID: 7965415

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: an image reading unit that acquires image data by reading a document, the image data including data of a skin part of the document, where the skin part relates to a background of the document; a skin detecting unit that detects the skin part of the document; a first skin processing unit that conducts first skin processing to remove the data of the skin part of the document from the image data based on a result of skin detection conducted by the skin detecting unit; an image correcting unit that conducts image correction on the image data to obtain corrected image data having predetermined data characteristic; a second skin processing unit that conducts second skin processing to remove the data of the skin part of the document from the image data based on a result of skin detection conducted by the skin detecting unit; an image processing unit that conducts image processing on the image data so as to obtain processed image data having desired characteristic; a storage unit that stores therein any one of the corrected image data and the processed image data; and a data outputting unit that outputs the image data stored in the storage unit an accumulation determining unit that determines whether image data is to be accumulated in the storage unit, a mode setting unit that sets any one of a reuse mode that permits output only in image quality set at the time of accumulation and a recycle mode that allows selection of image quality for accumulated image data when image data accumulated in the storage unit is re-outputted, wherein when it is determined by the accumulation determining unit that data is not to be accumulated, the image correcting unit causes the first skin processing unit to conduct the first skin processing, and wherein when it is determined by the accumulation determining unit that data is to be accumulated, the first skin processing is conducted by the first skin processing unit if the reuse mode is set, and the second skin processing is conducted by the second skin processing unit if the recycle mode is set.