Image forming apparatus
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorNobuhiro HARA
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus including: an image scanning unit scanning an image of an original document; an image forming unit forming the image onto a recording sheet; a text extraction section extracting a text area from the image for each of various kinds of languages; an editing section, for each of the various kinds of languages, giving color different from one another to the text area or selectively deleting the text area; and a control section controlling the image forming unit so as to cause the image forming unit to form the text area for each of the various kinds of languages on the recording sheet in respective color given to the text area or to form a text area, which is among the text areas of the various kinds of languages and is not being deleted by the editing section, on the recording sheet.
Claims13
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image scanning unit that scans an image of an original document;
- an image forming unit that forms the image of the original document scanned by the image scanning unit onto a recording sheet;
- a text extraction section that extracts a text area containing a character of a language from the image of the original document for each of various kinds of languages;
- an editing section that gives color respectively different from one another to the text area for each of the various kinds of languages or selectively deletes the text area for each of the various kinds of languages;
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- a control section that controls the image forming unit so as to cause the image forming unit to form the text area for each of the various kinds of languages on the recording sheet in respective color given to the text area for each of the various kinds of languages or to form a text area, which is among the text areas of the various kinds of languages and is not being deleted by the editing section, on the recording sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.