Image processing apparatus and computer readable medium

A computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for character recognition, the process comprising:

• accepting a document having pieces of character information and character images in mixture;
• extracting the accepted pieces of character information from the document;
• extracting the accepted character images from the document;
• recognizing the character images;
• performing a control so as to recognize a extracted character image by using pieces of character information that are located in the vicinity of said extracted character image;
• and
• shaping the document on the basis of the extracted pieces of character information and character recognition results by the recognition.

An image processing apparatus comprising:

• a document accepting section that accepts a document having pieces of character information and character images in mixture;
• a character image extracting section that extracts the character images from the document accepted by the document accepting section;
• a character string image generating section that generates character string images each enclosed by spaces on the basis of positions, in the document, of the character images extracted by the character image extracting section or pieces of space information relating to spaces in the document;
• a character recognition section that recognizes character images;
• a character recognition control section that performs a control so as to cause the character recognition section to recognize character string images generated by the character string image generating section in order that is determined on the basis of occurrence frequencies of character image identification codes for unique identification of the character images extracted by the character image extracting section;
• and
• a document shaping section that shapes the document on the basis of recognition results of the character recognition section.

A computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for character recognition, the process comprising:

• accepting a document having pieces of character information and character images in mixture;
• extracting the character images from the accepted document;
• generating character string images each enclosed by spaces on the basis of positions, in the document, of the extracted character images or pieces of space information relating to spaces in the document;
• recognizing character images;
• recognizing generated character string images in order that is determined on the basis of occurrence frequencies of character image identification codes for unique identification of the extracted character images;
• and
• shaping the document on the basis of the recognition.