Patent Document ID: 6043823
Application ID: 08682007
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A document processing apparatus comprising: region extracting means for receiving document information read out from a document containing at least some of at least one text, at least one table, at least one drawing, at least one photography and at least one graph, and extracting a plurality of specific document regions corresponding to at least some of the text, the table, the drawing, the photography and the graph for the document information; region recognition means for recognizing the document regions extracted by said region extraction means in accordance with types of the specific document regions; recognition result display means for displaying images indicating a recognition result from said region recognition means; region edit means for editing the images indicating the recognition result; output image forming means for forming an output image corresponding to an edit result from said region edit means or the recognition result; and image output means for outputting the image formed by said output image forming means, wherein said specific document regions include data regarding a position, size, shape, structure and density distribution.