Information processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and information processing method for automatically ordering page

An image forming apparatus for ordering a plurality of page data that is scanned, comprising:

• an OCR unit that performs optical character recognition for character and layout in a page for each of the plurality of page data;
• a rule order unit configured to classify each of the plurality of page data based on a page ordering rule according to the characters and the layout that are performed optical character recognition by the OCR unit, extract a page number, and calculate certainty of the page number;
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• an ML order unit configured to classify page data of a page with low certainty calculated by the rule order unit by machine learning and infer the page number.

An information processing method executed by an information processing apparatus for ordering a plurality of page data that is scanned, comprising the steps of:

• performing optical character recognition for character and layout in a page for each of the plurality of page data;
• classifying each of the plurality of page data based on a page ordering rule according to the characters and the layout that are performed optical character recognition and extracting a page number;
• calculating certainty of the page number;
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• classifying page data of a page with calculated low certainty by machine learning and inferring the page number.