Image processing apparatus and image forming apparatus

An image processing apparatus comprising:

• a character recognition section that performs character recognition processing on image data;
• a translation section that translates an original text obtained through the character recognition processing performed by the character recognition section into a predetermined language and creates a translated text;
• an image processing section that generates a replaced image in which a text portion of an original image shown in the image data is replaced from the original text by the translated text;
• a selection acceptance section that accepts an instruction of selecting, as an output target, either one or both of the original image shown in the image data and the replaced image;
• and
• a control section that performs, in accordance with the instruction accepted by the selection acceptance section, processing of outputting an output target image selected as the output target,
• the image processing apparatus further comprising a communication unit that performs data communication with an external device,
• wherein when the selection acceptance section accepts user selection of selecting the both images as the output target, the image processing section creates the output target image containing the both images on two pages or creates the output target image containing the both images on one page on which the output target image is consolidated in form of 2 in 1, and
• by transmitting via the communication unit the output target image created by the image processing section to the external device having been determined in advance, the control section performs the processing of outputting.

An image forming apparatus comprising:

• an image processing apparatus including:
• a character recognition section that performs character recognition processing on image data;
• a translation section that translates an original text obtained through the character recognition processing performed by the character recognition section into a predetermined language and creates a translated text;
• an image processing section that generates a replaced image in which a text portion of an original image shown in the image data is replaced from the original text by the translated text;
• a selection acceptance section that accepts an instruction of selecting, as an output target, either one or both of the original image shown in the image data and the replaced image;
• and
• a control section that performs, in accordance with the instruction accepted by the selection acceptance section, processing of outputting an output target image selected as the output target;
• and
• an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium,
• wherein when the selection acceptance section accepts user selection of selecting the both images as the output target, the image processing section creates print data with respect to any of:
• simplex printing for two pages under which one of the both images is printed on one page and the other one of the both images is printed on the other page;
• consolidated printing under which the both images are consolidated into one page in form of 2 in 1;
• and duplex printing under which one of the both images is arranged at a front side of one page and the other one of the both images is arranged at a back side of the one page, and
• by causing the image forming unit to form the output target image containing the both images, the control section performs the processing of outputting.