Image processing apparatus for generating a digitized document by using image data and method for controlling the same

An image processing apparatus comprising:

• an input unit configured to input first image data and second image data, the first image data and the second image data having a same layout;
• an extraction unit configured to extract text data of character strings contained in the first image data and information about position of the character strings in the first image data, and extract text data of character strings contained in the second image data and information about position of the character strings in the second image data;
• a receiving unit configured to receive, from a user, a specifying of one character string out of the character strings contained in the first image data;
• a determination unit configured to determine whether a character string at a position, in the second image data having the same layout as the first image data, common to the first position in the first image data matches the one character string, the specifying of which has been received by the receiving unit, using the text data and the information about the position of the text data extracted, by the extraction unit, from the first image data and the text data and the information about the position of the text data extracted, by the extraction unit, from the second image data;
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• a storage control unit configured to perform control so as to store, in a case where the determination unit determines that the character string at the position, in the second image data, common to the first position in the first image data matches the one character string, the first image data and the second image data in one file of which a name includes the character string received by the receiving unit and configured to perform control so as to store, in a case where the determination unit determines that the character string at the position, in the second image data, common to the first position in the first image data does not match the one character string, the first image data and the second image data in different files,
• wherein at least one of the input unit, the extraction unit, the receiving unit, and the determination unit is implemented by a processor.

An image processing method comprising:

• inputting first image data and second image data, the first and second image data having a same layout;
• extracting text data of character strings contained in the first image data and information about position of the character strings in the first image data, and extract text data of character strings contained in the second image data and information about position of the character strings in the second image data;
• receiving, from a user, a specifying of one character string out of the character strings contained in the first image data;
• determining whether a character string at a position, in the second image data having the same layout as the first image data, common to the first position in the first image data matches the one character string, the specification of which has been received from the user, using the text data and the information about the position of the text data extracted from the first image data and text data and information about the position of the text data extracted from the second image data;
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• storing, in a case where it is determined that the character string at the position in the second image data, common to the first position in the first image data, matches the one character string, the first image data and the second image data in one folder of which a name includes the received character string and storing, in a case where it is determined that the character string at the position, in the second image data common to the first position in the first image data, does not match the one character string, the first image data and the second image data in different folders.

An image processing method comprising:

• inputting first image data and second image data, the first image data and the second image data having a same layout;
• extracting text data of character strings contained in the first image data and information about position of the character strings in the first image data, and extract text data of character strings contained in the second image data and information about position of the character strings in the second image data;
• receiving, from a user, a specifying of one character string out of the character strings contained in the first image data;
• determining whether a character string at a position, in the second image data having the same layout as the first image data, common to the first position in the first image data matches the one character string, the specification of which having been received from the user, using the text data and the information about the position of the text data extracted from the first image data and the text data and the information about the position of the text data extracted from the second image data;
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• storing, in a case where it is determined that the character string at the position in the second image data, common to the first position in the first image data, matches the one character string, the first image data and the second image data in one file of which a name includes the received character string and storing, in a case where it is determined that the character string at the position in the second image data, common to the first position in the first image data, does not match the one character string, the first image data and the second image data as different files.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions, which when executed by a computer, execute an image processing method, the method comprising

• inputting first image data and second image data, the first and second image data having a same layout;
• extracting text data of character strings contained in the first image data and information about position of the character strings in the first image data, and extract text data of character strings contained in the second image data and information about position of the character strings in the second image data;
• receiving, from a user, a specifying of one character string out of the character strings contained in the first image data;
• determining whether a character string at a position, in the second image data having the same layout as the first image data, common to the first position in the first image data matches the one character string, the specification of which has been received from the user, using the text data and the information about the position of the text data extracted from the first image data and text data and information about the position of the text data extracted from the second image data;
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• storing, in a case where it is determined that the character string at the position in the second image data, common to the first position in the first image data, matches the one character string, the first image data and the second image data in one folder of which a name includes the received character string and storing, in a case where it is determined that the character string at the position, in the second image data common to the first position in the first image data, does not match the one character string, the first image data and the second image data in different folders.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions, which when executed by a computer, execute an image processing method, the method comprising

• inputting first image data and second image data, the first image data and the second image data having a same layout;
• extracting text data of character strings contained in the first image data and information about position of the character strings in the first image data, and extract text data of character strings contained in the second image data and information about position of the character strings in the second image data;
• receiving, from a user, a specifying of one character string out of the character strings contained in the first image data;
• determining whether a character string at a position, in the second image data having the same layout as the first image data, common to the first position in the first image data matches the one character string, the specification of which having been received from the user, using the text data and the information about the position of the text data extracted from the first image data and the text data and the information about the position of the text data extracted from the second image data;
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• storing, in a case where it is determined that the character string at the position in the second image data, common to the first position in the first image data, matches the one character string, the first image data and the second image data in one file of which a name includes the received character string and storing, in a case where it is determined that the character string at the position in the second image data, common to the first position in the first image data, does not match the one character string, the first image data and the second image data as different files.