Patent Document ID: 9928451
Application ID: 14444697

Base Claim:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having instructions stored thereon that are executed by the processor to act as: a receiving unit configured to receive a handwritten input for a description area displayed on a display unit; an information recognition unit configured to recognize a description of the handwritten input written in the description area and to convert the description to character information; an acquiring unit configured to acquire positional information of the description area in which the handwritten input is received; a determining unit configured to determine whether to display image information of the description written in the description area or to display the character information of the description written in the description area based on the positional information acquired by the acquiring unit; and a display control unit configured to cause the display unit to display the image information of the description written in the description area or the character information of the description written in the description area in accordance with a determination result obtained by the determining unit, wherein, in a case where the description includes data other than one or more characters written in the description area in which the character information of the description is displayed, the display control unit causes the display unit to display the data other than the one or more characters.

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Claim 6:
6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the description is acquired by scanning a paper document.