Image processing apparatus

An image processing apparatus comprising:

• a document reading section that reads an image from an original document;
• a character recognizing section that preforms processing for subjecting image data obtained by reading of the image by the document reading section to character recognition;
• a conversion section that performs, using a recognition result of the character recognizing section, conversion of the image data obtained by reading of the image by the document reading section to data available within predetermined application software;
• and
• a determination section that determines whether or not a text represented by the recognition result of the character recognizing section contains a predetermined keyword,
• wherein when the determination section determines that the text contains the predetermined keyword, the conversion section performs the conversion of the image data to the data in a limitedly editable format, whereas when the determination section determines that the text does not contain the predetermined keyword, the conversion section performs the conversion of the image data to the data in a freely editable format.