Material processing apparatus, material processing method, and material processing program product

A material processing method comprising:

• reading image data of a material, the material having answer fields and information items on points distributed to the answer fields;
• extracting the distributed point information items based on the image data;
• associating the distributed point information items with answer fields to recognize the points distributed to each answer field;
• storing a result recognized the points distributed to each answer field as answer/distributed point correspondence information;
• recognizing correct/incorrect answer determining contents from the image data;
• and
• performing point totaling on the correct/incorrect answer determining contents based on the answer/distributed point correspondence information.

A storage medium readable by a computer, the storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by the computer to perform a function for processing a material, the function comprising:

• reading image data of a material, the material having answer fields and information items on points distributed to the answer fields;
• extracting the distributed point information items based on the image data;
• associating the distributed point information items with answer fields to recognize the points distributed to each answer field;
• storing a result recognized the points distributed to each answer field as answer/distributed point correspondence information;
• recognizing correct/incorrect answer determining contents from the image data;
• and
• performing point totaling on the correct/incorrect answer determining contents based on the answer/distributed point correspondence information.

A material processing apparatus, comprising:

• a database that stores electronic data of an material having an answer field;
• a reading unit that reads data of a material to obtain image data from the material, the material having an answer field and correct/incorrect answer determining contents;
• a difference extracting unit that compares the electronic data stored in the database with the image data obtained by the reading unit to extract a difference therebetween;
• a correct/incorrect answer determination recognizing unit that recognizes the correct/incorrect answer determining contents from the difference extraction result obtained by the difference extracting unit;
• and
• a point totaling unit that performs point totaling on the correct/incorrect answer determining contents, on the basis of a result recognized by the correct/incorrect answer determination recognizing unit.

A material processing method comprising:

• storing electronic data of an material having an answer field;
• reading data of a material to obtain image data from the material, the material having an answer field and correct/incorrect answer determining contents;
• comparing the electronic data stored in the database with the image data obtained by the reading to extract a difference therebetween;
• recognizing the correct/incorrect answer determining contents based on the difference;
• and
• performing point totaling on the correct/incorrect answer determining contents.

A storage medium readable by a computer, the storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by the computer to perform a function for processing a material, the function comprising:

• storing electronic data of an material having an answer field;
• reading data of a material to obtain image data from the material, the material having an answer field and correct/incorrect answer determining contents;
• comparing the electronic data stored in the database with the image data obtained by the reading to extract a difference therebetween;
• recognizing the correct/incorrect answer determining contents based on the difference;
• and
• performing point totaling on the correct/incorrect answer determining contents.