Patent ID: 7813550

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: an image reading unit which reads an image of a document, the image including an information symbol; an identification unit which identifies the information symbol in the read image; a decoding unit which decodes the information symbol identified by the identification unit; a determination unit which determines, based on decoding result from the decoding unit, whether or not a data format of the information symbol is a prescribed data format; a registration unit which registers information, for each of a plurality of addresses, indicating whether or not the information symbol should be deleted from the read image, in a case where the determination unit determines that the data format of the information symbol is the prescribed data format; a selection unit which selects one of the plurality of addresses as a transmission destination of the read image; a deletion unit which deletes the information symbol from the read image in a case where the information registered for the address selected by the selection unit indicates that the information symbol should be deleted from the read image; a transmission unit which transmits the read image data, from which the information symbol is deleted, to the address selected by the selection unit in a case where the information registered for the address selected by the selection unit indicates that the information symbol should be deleted from the read image, and which transmits the read image data, from which the information symbol is not deleted, to the address selected by the selection unit in a case where the information registered for the address selected by the selection unit indicates that the information symbol should not be deleted from the read image; and a processor configured to function as at least one of the identification unit, the determination unit, the selection unit and the deletion unit.