Patent ID: 8251280

Claim:
A bar-code ticket processing apparatus comprising: a taking unit configured to take thereinto a bar-code ticket; an image-data reading unit configured to read image data of both surfaces of the bar-code ticket taken by the taking unit; a valid-surface judging unit configured to judge the surfaces of the image data read by the image-data reading unit to be valid or not; a control unit configured to generate ticket data including the image data of a valid surface out of the image data read by the image-data reading unit, based on the judgment result of the valid-surface judging unit; and a direction judging unit configured to judge a direction of the image data read by the image-data reading unit, wherein the control unit is configured to correct the direction of the image data of the valid surface, based on the judgment result of the direction judging unit, and then generate the ticket data so as to include the corrected image data of the valid surface.