Patent Document ID: 8751214
Application ID: 12211543

Base Claim:
1. An information processor comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory, the at least one memory storing instructions that when executed cause the at least one processor to function as: a specifying unit that specifies a candidate region in an image; a character recognizing unit that recognizes characters in the candidate region; a recognized character feature obtaining unit that obtains, as a recognized character feature, a quantity of predetermined characters contained in the characters recognized by the character recognizing unit; a translation deciding unit that decides whether or not the recognized characters are to be translated in accordance with the recognized character feature obtained by the recognized character feature obtaining unit, a translation unit that translates the recognized characters in accordance with a decision from the translation deciding unit; an outputting deciding unit that decides whether to output the translated result in accordance with a feature obtained from a translated result; and an outputting unit that outputs the translated result in accordance with the decision from the outputting deciding unit, wherein the predetermined characters are characters frequently appearing in characters obtained by performing character recognition in a region which does not include characters.

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Claim 7:
7. The information processor as claimed in claim 1 , the at least one memory storing further instructions that when executed cause the at least one processor to further function as: a translating unit that translates the recognized characters in a case where it is decided that the recognized characters are to be translated by the translation deciding unit; a translated result feature obtaining unit that obtains a second feature from a translated result obtained by the translating unit; and an output deciding unit that decides whether or not the translated result obtained by translating unit is to be outputted in accordance with the second feature obtained by the translated result feature obtaining unit.