Image processing apparatus and image processing method

An image processing apparatus, comprising:

• a resolution condition storage unit that stores language types and resolutions associated with one another;
• an input unit that inputs document data;
• a language specification unit that specifies a language type that is depicted in a document expressed by the document data that has been input;
• a resolution conversion unit that converts the resolution of the document data that has been input to a resolution that has been stored in the resolution condition storage unit in association with the language type that has been specified by the language specification unit;
• and
• a processing unit that performs predetermined processing for the document data whose resolution has been converted.

An image processing method, comprising:

• reducing, with an image processing apparatus, a document expressed by the document data that has been input while changing a reduction factor step-by-step;
• referring, with the image processing apparatus, to characters that constitute the document that has been reduced with the respective reduction factors, and specifying a reduction factor at which blank regions surrounded by line portions that express each character do not disappear;
• specifying, with the image processing apparatus, a resolution of the characters for the reduction factor that has been specified;
• converting, with the image processing apparatus, the resolution of the document data that has been input to the resolution that has been specified;
• and
• performing, with the image processing apparatus, predetermined processing for the document data whose resolution has been converted.

An image processing method comprising:

• specifying, with an image processing apparatus, a language type that is depicted in a document expressed by document data that has been input;
• converting, with the image processing apparatus, the resolution of the document data that has been input to a resolution that has been stored in association with the language type that has been specified;
• and
• performing, with the image processing apparatus, predetermined processing for the document data whose resolution has been converted.