IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

• US 20090214115A1
• Filed: 08/22/2008
• Published: 08/27/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: SEKINO, Masanori, KIMURA, Shunichi
• Granted Patent: US 8,213,748 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/182
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/3871 the composed originals being of different kinds, e.g. low- and high-resolution originals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0067 Converting to still picture data

Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes: an image acceptance unit that accepts an image; a character information adding unit that adds a character identifier for uniquely identifying a character, a character position indicating a position of the character in the image, a character size indicating a size of the character, and a character color indicating a color of the character as character information, to the image accepted by the image acceptance unit; a font allocation unit that allocates a font without drawing element as a font corresponding to the character identifier within the character information added by the character information adding unit; and an electronic document generation unit that generates an electronic document for reference to the font information allocated by the font allocation unit, based on the character information added to the image by the character information adding unit.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

an image acceptance unit that accepts an image;

a character information adding unit that adds a character identifier for uniquely identifying a character, a character position indicating a position of the character in the image, a character size indicating a size of the character, and a character color indicating a color of the character as character information, to the image accepted by the image acceptance unit;

a font allocation unit that allocates a font without drawing element as a font corresponding to the character identifier within the character information added by the character information adding unit; and

an electronic document generation unit that generates an electronic document for reference to the font information allocated by the font allocation unit, based on the character information added to the image by the character information adding unit.

2. The image processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1,

wherein

the electronic document generation unit generates the electronic document by adding the font information allocated by the font allocation unit to the image with the character information added by the character information adding unit.

5. The image processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1,

wherein

the image accepted by the image acceptance unit is the color image,

the apparatus further comprises a character color decision unit that decides the color of character as the character information, based on the color of character in the color image accepted by the image acceptance unit, and

the character information adding unit adds the character color decided by the character color decision unit as the character information.

3. An image processing apparatus comprising:

an image acceptance unit that accepts an image;

a character information adding unit that adds a character identifier for uniquely identifying a character, a character position indicating a position of the character in the image, a character size indicating a size of the character, and a character color indicating a color of the character as character information, to the image accepted by the image acceptance unit;

a font information storage that stores font information in which a font without drawing element is allocated to the character identifier; and

an electronic document generation unit that generates an electronic document for reference to the font information stored by the font information storage, based on the character information added to the image by the character information adding unit.

4. The image processing apparatus as claimed in claim 3,

wherein

the electronic document generation unit generates the electronic document by adding the font information stored by the font information storage to the image with the character information added by the character information adding unit.

6. A computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for performing an image processing, the process comprising:

accepting an image;

adding a character identifier for uniquely identifying the character, a character position indicating a position of the character in the image, a character size indicating a size of the character, and a character color indicating a color of the character as character information, to the accepted image;

allocating a font without drawing element as the font corresponding to the character identifier within the added character information; and

generating an electronic document for reference to the allocated font information, based on the character information added to the image.

7. A computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for performing an image processing, the process comprising:

accepting an image;

adding a character identifier for uniquely identifying the character, a character position indicating a position of the character in the image, a character size indicating a size of the character, and a character color indicating a color of the character as character information, to the accepted image;

storing font information in which a font without drawing element is allocated to the character identifier; and

generating an electronic document for reference to the stored font information, based on the character information added to the image.