Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image processing method

Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes: a character recognition section for performing a character recognition process for a character included in a document, based on image data obtained by reading the document; and a formatting process section for generating an image file in which text data obtained by the character recognition process are associated with the image data, the character recognition section generating the text data corresponding respectively to a plurality of possible character recognition results, in a case where the character recognition section detects the plurality of possible character recognition results, the formatting process section generating the image file in which each of the text data produced by the character recognition section is associated with the image data. This makes it possible to prevent omission in search in a case where a keyword search based on the text data is carried out, in the image processing apparatus that generates an image file in which image data obtained by reading a document is associated with text data obtained by a character recognition process on the image data.

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