Patent ID: 8587817

Claim:
An image processing apparatus configured to acquire a plurality of tables by acquiring a table from each image data of a plurality of image data arranged in a predetermined order, the image processing apparatus comprising: a header acquiring part that acquires a header, which is at least one of a column and a row of a table, from each of the plurality of tables; a table connection determining part that determines, as a set of tables to be connected, tables of the plurality of tables that are adjacent to each other in the predetermined order and that have headers that match one another, the set of tables including a first table from a first piece of image data of the plurality of pieces of image data in the predetermined order and one or more second tables; a table connecting part that deletes the header from each table of the one or more second tables that match the first header and does not delete the header of the a first table and connects the first table having the matching header and the one or more second tables that do not have headers in accordance with the predetermined order.