Patent Document ID: 7853194
Application ID: 11225133
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A material processing apparatus comprising: a reading unit that performs image reading for a material having answer fields and distributed point information thereof, so as to obtain image data from the material; a correct/incorrect determination recognizing unit that extracts correct/incorrect determinations for answers to the answer fields from the image data, with respect to the material in which the answers and the correct/incorrect determinations are entered in handwriting; a distributed point information extracting unit that extracts the distributed point information from the image data with respect to at least one of the material in which the answers to the answer fields and the correct/incorrect determinations for the answers are entered and the material on which the answers and the correct/incorrect determinations are not entered; a layout analyzing unit that divides the image data read by the reading unit into a plurality of regions in accordance with at least one of an image object representing a separator in the image data and a white band region in the image data; a distributed point acquiring unit that correlates, for each of the regions, the extracted handwritten correct/incorrect determinations with the extracted distributed point information existing in the same divided region; and a point totaling unit that adds points indicated by the distributed point information extracted by the distributed point information extracting unit using (i) the correct/incorrect determinations for answers according to the extraction result by the correct/incorrect determination recognizing unit and (ii) a result of correlation by the distributed point acquiring unit, wherein the distributed point information extracting unit extracts the distributed point information from the image data using character recognition.