Image processing apparatus with automated division of scanned forms into individual documents, and image processing method and storage medium for same
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKenta Inoue
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Abstract
An image processing apparatus obtains scanned images by scanning forms of a plurality of types; manages page counts associated with feature information of previous scanned images of respective form types; analyzes each of the scanned images to determine, based on the feature information, whether the analyzed scanned image is similar to any of the previous scanned images; and divides the scanned images based on a scanned image to determined to be similar to any of the previous scanned images and the page count associated with the any of the previous scanned images.
Claims10
An image processing apparatus comprising:
- at least one memory that stores instructions;
- and
- at least one processor that executes the instructions to:
- obtain scanned images by using a scanner;
- manage page counts and feature information of images included in respective forms in association with the respective forms;
- execute a similar form determination based on feature information of the respective scanned images and the feature information of the images included in respective form types;
- determine a dividing position based on a result of a comparison between a first page count in each document when the scanned images are divided into multiple documents using candidate dividing positions corresponding to each of pages corresponding to similar images determined by the similar form determination and a second page count managed in association with each of the forms used by the similar form determination;
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- divide the scanned images based on the determined dividing position.
An image processing method comprising:
- obtaining scanned images by using a scanner;
- managing page counts and feature information of images included in respective forms in association with the respective forms;
- executing a similar form determination based on feature information of the respective scanned images and the feature information of the images included in respective form types;
- determining a dividing position based on a result of a comparison between a first page count in each document obtained by dividing the scanned images into multiple documents using candidate dividing positions corresponding to each of pages corresponding to similar images determined by the similar form determination and a second page count managed in association with each of the forms used by the similar form determination;
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- dividing the scanned images based on the determined dividing position.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program which causes a computer to perform an image processing method, the image processing method comprising:
- obtaining scanned images by using a scanner;
- managing page counts and feature information of images included in respective forms in association with the respective forms;
- executing a similar form determination based on feature information of the respective scanned images and the feature information of the images included in respective form types;
- determining a dividing position based on a result of a comparison between a first page count in each document when the scanned images are divided into multiple documents using candidate dividing positions corresponding to each of pages corresponding to similar images determined by the similar form determination and a second page count managed in association with each of the forms used by the similar form determination;
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- dividing the scanned images based on the determined dividing position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.