Patent ID: 8203722

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: at least one processor configured to operate a plurality of units, the plurality of units including, an image-information obtaining unit that obtains image information; a form determining unit that determines form information indicating a characteristic for limiting a position of a viewing axis based on the image information obtained by the image-information obtaining unit, the viewing axis being an axis for turning over a page of a medium on which the image information is printed; a viewing-axis determining unit that determines the position of the viewing axis based on the form information determined by the form determining unit; a format limiting unit that limits format information that can be set according to the position of the viewing axis determined by the viewing-axis determining unit; and a format receiving unit that receives an input of the format information limited by the format limiting unit, wherein the form information determined by the form determining unit includes at least one of line information indicating whether characters included in the image information are written in vertical or horizontal direction, and top and bottom information indicating whether top and bottom are same or reversed in an odd page and an even page when double-sided printing is performed.