Image processing apparatus and image forming apparatus

An image processing apparatus comprising:

• a display section;
• an image reading section that includes a scanner and optically reads an image of a document through the scanner;
• an operation acceptance section that includes an operating section and a touch panel, the operating section and the touch panel accepting an operating instruction from a user;
• a storage section;
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• a control unit that includes a CPU, the CPU functioning, when executing an image processing program, as:
• a rectangle extracting section that extracts a rectangle-representing image representing a rectangle from the image of the document acquired from reading by the image reading section and detects a size and a location of the rectangle-representing image in the image of the document;
• an identification information assigning section that sequentially assigns a piece of identification information to the rectangle-representing image extracted by the rectangle extracting section;
• a display control section that allows the display section to display the image of the document and display on the image of the document the rectangle-representing image extracted by the rectangle extracting section;
• a box information creating section that, when the operation acceptance section accepts a specification request from the user to specify the rectangle-representing image being displayed on the display section as a box that is an entry field in which a piece of character data for entry is to be entered, creates a piece of box information on the box by associating the rectangle-representing image specified as the box by the specification request, the size and location of the rectangle-representing image in the image of the document, and the piece of identification information assigned to the rectangle-representing image with each other;
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• a control section that, when the box information creating section creates the piece of box information, allows the storage section to store the image of the document and the piece of box information in a form of a template containing the image of the document and the piece of box information,
• wherein when the operation acceptance section accepts, in addition to the specification request, a selection request from the user to select, as a type of the box specified by the specification request, one of a standard box in which at least one character is to be entered as the piece of character data for entry, a concatenated box in which a plurality of boxes each capable of accommodating the piece of character data for entry are concatenated as a single box, and a check box in which a predetermined check mark is to be entered as the piece of character data for entry, the box information creating section creates the piece of box information on the box by associating the rectangle-representing image specified as the box by the specification request, the size and location of the rectangle-representing image in the image of the document, the piece of identification information assigned to the rectangle-representing image, and the type of the box selected by the selection request with each other,
• when, after the operation acceptance section accepted the selection request to select the concatenated box, the operation acceptance section does not detect that a portion displaying a rectangle-representing image specified as the concatenated box has been tapped by the user within a predetermined period of time in which the control section accepts an instruction to specify a size of the concatenated box, the box information creating section creates a piece of box information of the concatenated box, and
• the box information of the concatenated box contains a piece of information indicating that a plurality of rectangle-representing images specified as the plurality of boxes contained in the concatenated box are sub-boxes into each of which a piece of character data for entry can be entered independently of the other sub-boxes.