Image processing apparatus for determining whether a document is color or monochrome

An image processing apparatus comprising:

• a reading unit configured to perform a reading process for reading an area including an image of an original document and for generating data;
• a first determination unit configured to determine whether the image of the original document is a color image or a monochrome image based on the generated data of a first area corresponding to a first size read in the reading process performed by the reading unit;
• a second determination unit configured to determine whether the image of the original document is a color image or a monochrome image based on the generated data of a second area corresponding to a second size read in the same reading process performed by the reading unit, the second size being different from the first size;
• a specification unit configured to specify a size of the original document after determining by the first determination unit and determining by the second determination unit;
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• an adopting unit configured to adopt, in a case where the size of the original document specified by the specifying unit is the first size, a first determination result which has been determined by the first determination unit without adopting a second determination result which has been determined by the second determination unit, and to adopt, in a case where the size of the original document specified by the specifying unit is the second size, the second determination result without adopting the first determination result.