Image information processing apparatus

An image information processing apparatus comprising:

• inputting means for sequentially inputting a plurality of documents as image information;
• detecting means for detecting a separating sheet with a black specified area, the separating sheet being inserted between the documents;
• separation designating means for designating a grouping of the image information according to a position of the separating sheet inserted;
• and
• memory means for separating the image information into groups in accordance with an output of said separation designating means and filing each of said groups of the image information as a block of document data,
• wherein said detecting means carries out a logical OR between image data of said specified area of the separating sheet and data which is obtained by shifting the image data by an amount of one dot in a lateral direction, and detecting the separating sheet based on first data represented by the logical OR so as to eliminate noise from the image information.

An image information processing apparatus comprising:

• inputting means for sequentially inputting a plurality of documents as image information;
• detecting means for detecting a separating sheet with a specified area containing a specific picture, the separating sheet being inserted between the documents, the specific picture not being represented by a binary code;
• separation designating means for designating a grouping of the image information according to a position of the separating sheet inserted;
• and
• memory mean for separating the image information into groups in accordance with an output of said separation designating means, filing each of said groups of the image information as a block of document data, and storing therein data of the specific picture in advance of each of said groups,
• wherein said detecting means detects the separating sheet by comparing the image data of the specified area of each the separating sheet with data of pictures stored in a second memory.