Patent ID: 8553927

Claim:
An image processing device which extracts additional information from image data, comprising: an input unit configured to input a plurality of image data items input from document images; an additional information extracting unit configured to extract an additional information item including a first control code, representing a process to be performed on a page basis by one of the input unit, a processing unit and an output unit, from each of the plurality of image data items input by the input unit of the image processing device; and a determining unit configured to determine a process to be performed on a page basis and a document basis for each image data item based on the extracted additional information item, wherein the determining unit is configured to determine an image-data group process to be performed on a document basis for an image-data group containing the plurality of image data items, based on a plurality of additional information items extracted from the plurality of image data items, and to determine an image-data item process to be performed on a page basis for each image data item based on a corresponding one of the plurality of additional information items, and wherein the additional information extracting unit is further configured to generate a group-basis additional information item indicating an image-data-group process to be performed on a document basis, in accordance with a second control code, representing a process to be performed by each of the input unit, the processing unit and the output unit, indicating a non-output process which does not output the image data from the image processing device to an external device.