Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium

A control method of an information processing apparatus having a blotting out function of an electronic document, the control method comprising the steps of:

• setting an area to which blotting out processing is applied, wherein the area is specified by a user;
• and
• performing blotting out processing to fill the inside of the area set at the setting step for a character image object and to delete text information within the area set at the setting step for a text object, of objects included in the electronic document, wherein
• at the setting step, in a case where the electronic document is an electronic document in a format searchable for a character string and where a character string obtained by performing OCR processing for a character image object existing in the area and a character string of an invisible text object existing in the area do not match with each other, an area to which blotting out processing is applied for at least one of the character image object and the invisible text object is re-set so that both the character strings match with each other.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to perform a control method of an information processing apparatus having a blotting out function of an electronic document, the control method comprising the steps of:

• setting an area to which blotting out processing is applied, wherein the area is specified by a user;
• and
• performing blotting out processing to fill the inside of the area set at the setting step for a character image object and to delete text information within the area set at the setting step for a text object, of objects included in the electronic document, wherein
• at the setting step, in a case where the electronic document is an electronic document in a format searchable for a character string and where a character string obtained by performing OCR processing for a character image object existing in the area and a character string of an invisible text object existing in the area do not match with each other, an area to which blotting out processing is applied for at least one of the character image object and the invisible text object is re-set so that both the character strings match with each other.