Patent Document ID: 8175880
Application ID: 12372921

Base Claim:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: an image data input portion that inputs image data; a text data input portion that inputs text data; a voice data converter that converts into voice data, the text data inputted by the text data input portion; a connector that connects to each other, the voice data obtained by the voice data converter and the image data inputted by the image data input portion; a file creator that creates a file including the image data and the voice data connected to each other by the connector; the image data input portion and the text data input portion correspond to a reader that reads out image data by scanning a document; the voice data converter converts into voice data, text data extracted from the image data read out from the document by the reader; the connector connects to each other, the obtained voice data and the image data appropriate for the voice data; the text data converted into voice data is extracted from the image data read out from one side of the document; and the voice data into which the text data is converted is connected to the image data read out from the other side of the document.

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Claim 2:
2. The image processing apparatus recited in claim 1 , wherein: the image data is comprised of image data pieces read out from a plurality of pages, and voice data pieces about the respective pages are connected to the image data pieces, and further comprising: an output portion that outputs the image data pieces to a display apparatus and outputs the voice data pieces to a speech output apparatus, and wherein: the output portion starts outputting to the speech output apparatus a voice data piece connected to an image data piece read out from one page, based on the output of the image data piece to the display apparatus, and the output portion starts outputting to the display apparatus an image data piece read out from a following page, based on the completion of outputting the voice data piece.