Information processing apparatus and information processing method

An information processing apparatus comprising:

• a processor configured to:
• acquire a plurality of scanned images obtained by scanning a bundle of paper media including a plurality of standard document bundles each of which is a set of a standard document and a related document related to the standard document;
• extract a title from the plurality of scanned images;
• extract an identifier including predefined text from the plurality of scanned images;
• only perform a comparison on identifiers extracted from the plurality of scanned images including the title;
• divide the plurality of scanned images according to a comparison result of the identifiers extracted from the plurality of scanned images including the title;
• and
• divide the plurality of scanned images into bundles such that a scanned image from which the title has been extracted is set as a bundle head, and a scanned image that is arranged to be continuous from the scanned image from which the title has been extracted and has a common identifier is included in the same bundle.

An information processing apparatus comprising:

• means for acquiring a plurality of scanned images obtained by scanning a bundle of paper media including a plurality of standard document bundles each of which is a set of a standard document and a related document related to the standard document;
• means for extracting a title from the plurality of scanned images;
• means for extracting, from the plurality of scanned images, an identifier that is assigned to be common within one standard document bundle and to be different between different standard document bundles;
• means for only performing a comparison on identifiers extracted from the plurality of scanned images including the title;
• means for dividing the plurality of scanned images according to a comparison result of the identifiers extracted from the plurality of scanned images including the title;
• and
• means for dividing the plurality of scanned images into bundles such that a scanned image from which the title has been extracted is set as a bundle head, scanned images having the same identifier are included in the same bundle, and scanned images having different identifiers are included in different bundles.

An information processing method comprising:

• acquiring a plurality of scanned images obtained by scanning a bundle of paper media including a plurality of standard document bundles each of which is a set of a standard document and a related document related to the standard document;
• extracting a title from the plurality of scanned images;
• extracting, from the plurality of scanned images, an identifier that is assigned to be common within one standard document bundle and to be different between different standard document bundles;
• only performing a comparison on identifiers extracted from the plurality of scanned images including the title;
• dividing the plurality of scanned images according to a comparison result of the identifiers extracted from the plurality of scanned images including the title;
• and
• dividing the plurality of scanned images into bundles such that a scanned image from which the title has been extracted is set as a bundle head, scanned images having the same identifier are included in the same bundle, and scanned images having different identifiers are included in different bundles.