Patent ID: 8155944

Claim:
A translation apparatus comprising: an image acquiring unit that acquires an original document image read from an original document including an original sentence in a first language; a translating unit that translates the original sentence included in the original document image into a second language; a line-space specifying unit that specifies a line-space region for each line of the original sentence included in the original document image; a first translation document creating unit that creates a first translation document by arranging a translation sentence in each line-space region of the original document image; a second translation document creating unit that creates a second translation document by replacing the original sentence in the original document image with the translation sentence; a determining unit that determines for each line-space region whether a non-interference condition is satisfied on the basis of whether the original sentence overlaps with the translation sentence; and an output unit that outputs the first translation document in a case where the non-interference condition is satisfied, or that outputs the second translation document in a case where the non-interference condition is not satisfied.