Image processing device and program product
AssigneeMinolta Co., Ltd.
InventorYoko Fujiwara
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Abstract
When an image group of character images such as a word consists of character images, which are character code data candidates as their character recognition certainties are higher than a prescribed value, and character images, which are character image data candidates as their character recognition certainties are lower than a prescribed value, a computer 10 with a capability of functioning as an image processing device has a character output format judgment unit 33 that makes a judgment to cut out all character images within said word without converting them to character code data to form character image data.
Claims20
An image processing device comprising:
- a character recognition unit that recognizes character codes from character images in image data and also detects character recognition certainty, which is a degree of correctly recognizing character codes;
- a conversion unit that converts the character images to character code data according to the character codes;
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- a judgment unit that judges whether the character images should be converted to the character code data, wherein said judgment unit judges whether all character images contained in a specific character image group formed as an assembly of multiple adjoining character images should be prohibited from being converted into character code data depending on the character recognition certainty of said character images contained in the character image group.
A program product for image processing, said program product causing a computer to execute a process comprising the steps of:
- 1) recognizing character codes from character images contained in image data;
- 2) detecting character recognition certainty, which is a degree of correctly recognizing character codes in step 1);
- 3) judging whether all character images contained in a specific character image group formed as an assembly of multiple adjoining character images should be prohibited from being converted into character code data depending on the character recognition certainty of said character images contained in the character image group.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.