Patent Document ID: 9811724
Application ID: 14814604
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a processor configured to execute: a recognition unit that has image recognition methods of a plurality of types, the recognition unit recognizing, in a case where image data of a first document and image data of a second document are generated by a generation unit that reads a document and generates image data of the document, the type of the first document from the image data of the first document and recognizing the type of the second document from the image data of the second document using an image recognition method corresponding to the type of the first document among the image recognition methods of the plurality of types, the first document and the second document being included in a plurality of documents wherein in response to recognition of the type of the first document, the recognition unit tries to recognize the type of the first document by changing the image recognition method to another until recognition of the type of the first document becomes successful, wherein the generation unit reads sheets of a plurality of documents one by one in a certain order, and in a case where image data of a document read first is treated as the image data of the first document and where the type of the first document is not recognized from the image data of the first document, the recognition unit tries to recognize the type of the first document by treating image data of a document read last as the image data of the first document.