IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING

• US 20150332492A1
• Filed: 05/08/2015
• Published: 11/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Masaaki Igarashi
• Inventors: IGARASHI, Masaaki
• Granted Patent: US 9,779,317 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/987 with the intervention of an operator
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00 Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00005 relating to image data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00013 Reading apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00076 locally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00968 by scanning marks on a sheet mark-sheet input means H04N1/00355; sensing record carriers G06K7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

An image processing system includes a reading unit, a checking unit, a display control unit, and an image correcting unit. The reading unit reads image information from an original manuscript to generate image data. The checking unit checks whether or not a plurality of items listed in the original manuscript include an unentered item with the result of a character recognition process for recognizing a character contained in the image data. When the unentered item is present, the display control unit performs control to display information for informing a user of the unentered item. The image correcting unit adds a text with respect to the unentered item according to an input made by a user to correct the image data.

Claims

1. An image processing system comprising:

a reading unit that reads image information from an original manuscript to generate image data;

a checking unit that checks whether or not a plurality of items listed in the original manuscript include an unentered item with a result of a character recognition process for recognizing a character contained in the image data;

a display control unit that performs, when the unentered item is present, control to display information for informing a user of the unentered item; and

an image correcting unit that adds a text with respect to the unentered item according to an input made by the user to correct the image data.

2. The image processing system according to claim 1, wherein the original manuscript is an answered questionnaire sheet.

3. The image processing system according to claim 2, wherein

when no answer has been entered to a required item that needs to be answered, the display control unit performs control to display information for informing that no answer has been entered to the required item, and

when no answer has been entered to an optional item for which answering is optional, the display control unit does not perform control to display information for informing that no answer has been entered to the optional item.

4. The image processing system according to claim 2, further comprising:

a questionnaire result data storage unit that stores the image data or the image data corrected by the image correcting unit as questionnaire result data; and

a compiling unit that compiles entries for each of the items across pieces of the questionnaire result data.

5. The image processing system according to claim 4, wherein the display control unit performs control to display a compiled result produced by the compiling unit.

6. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a reading unit that reads image information from an original manuscript to generate image data;

a checking unit that checks whether or not a plurality of items listed in the original manuscript include an unentered item on the basis of a result of a character recognition process for recognizing a character contained in the image data;

a display control unit that performs, when the unentered item is present, control to display an existence of the unentered item; and

an image correcting unit that adds a text with respect to the unentered item according to an input made by a user to correct the image data.

7. An image processing method comprising:

a reading step of reading image information from an original manuscript to generate image data;

a checking step of checking whether or not a plurality of items listed in the original manuscript include an unentered item on the basis of a result of a character recognition process for recognizing a character contained in the image data;

a display control step of performing, when the unentered item is present, control to display an existence of the unentered item; and

an image correcting step of adding a text with respect to the unentered item according to an input made by a user to correct the image data.