Abstract: An image processing apparatus has a separation unit for separating objects constituting an image input by an image input unit, a setting unit for setting a criterion to determine whether or not a separated object is stored, and a determination unit for determining whether the separated object is stored based on the criterion set by the setting unit. The image processing apparatus also has a unit for displaying the separated object, responding to a user access via an interface unit, when the separated object is determined to be stored by the determination unit and storing the separated object such that the separated object can be reused.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a dividing unit for dividing objects of an input image, a metadata adding unit for adding metadata to each of the divided objects by performing OCR processing and morpheme analysis, a display unit for displaying at least one of the divided objects and the metadata added to the divided object, and a metadata accuracy determining unit for determining accuracies of the added metadata. The display unit preferentially displays metadata determined as being low in accuracy by the metadata accuracy determining unit.

Abstract: When there is a possibility where an undesirable printing result may be caused, a preview image useful for the check of the printing result is displayed, prior to an actual printing, to a user. Prior to the printing an image based on data after an image processing of an image data, it is determined whether or not there is a possibility in which an undesirable printing result may be caused based on the image data and, when it is determined that there is the possibility, a warning message is issued. When it is determined that there is a possibility in which an undesirable printing result may be caused, a printer driver simulates the image processing by the printing apparatus to prepare the data after the image processing. A display apparatus displays, prior to the printing of the image, a preview image based on the data after the image processing.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an allowable-amount-of-special-toner determining unit for determining an allowable amount of special toner from a total adhesion amount of toner of four colors including cyan, magenta, yellow, and black on an input image, a normal print-out unit for performing a normal print-out process, a two-path print-out unit for performing a two-path print-out process, a grouping unit for grouping pixels for which printing with the special toner is set into a first pixel group and a second pixel group based on the allowable amount of special toner; and a print-out-method selecting unit for selecting the normal print-out unit or the two-path print-out unit based on a percentage of the number of first-group pixels to the number of pixels for which printing with the special toner is set.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image composition unit configured to generate a composite image by compositing first and second images, a specification unit configured to specify a generation process of the first and second images, and a selection unit configured to select a compression parameter to compress the composite image based on the combination of the generation process of the first and second images specified by the specification unit. In addition, an image compression unit is configured to compress the composite image using the compression parameter selected by the selection unit. The image composition unit generates the composite image by compositing the first image regarded as a semitransparent image and the second image.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a document image, a primary region segmentation unit configured to segment the acquired document image into a plurality of regions, a detection unit configured to detect a text region including an erroneous sentence from the regions segmented by the primary region segmentation unit, a secondary region segmentation unit configured to detect a second attribute region partly overlapped with an original sentence of the erroneous sentence and separate the detected region into the second attribute region and a part of the original sentence, and a combining unit configured to combine the part of the original sentence separated by the secondary region segmentation unit with the text region including the erroneous sentence.

Abstract: In order to allow to store image data in a color reproducible format while reducing the data size, an image processing apparatus includes an image input unit which inputs image data by reading an original image, a determination unit which determines a representative color included in the image data, a binary image data generation unit which generates binary image data including no color information based on the image data, an additional data generation unit which generates additional data as color information corresponding to each pixel which forms the binary image data based on the representative color determined by the determination unit, and a storage unit which stores the binary image data and the additional data.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus and image processing method for preventing a paper jam in print output are provided. First, when printing is instructed, it is judged whether paper jam exists. Next, when occurrence of paper jam is recognized based on the judgment, information related to an object is obtained. Next, when a paper jam occurs, the information is added to information of each object. Additionally, when each object is reused, it is judged whether there is a possibility that a paper jam will occur again, based on the information added.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus having a reduction layout function has as its object to suppress any image degradation in recompressed image data. To achieve this object, an image processing method of this invention has the following arrangement.

Abstract: A variable c1 is counted up by one for the Nth bit in attribute information=“1”, and a variable c0 is counted up by one for the Nth bit=“0” (S402). When the total code amount of the coding results of pieces of attribute information which have been coded up to now has exceeded a predetermined threshold, a value held by the variable c0 at this time and that held by the variable c1 are compared with each other to determine which of “1” or “0” is set for the Nth bit of subsequently input attribute information (S405).

Abstract: This invention has as its object to avoid occurrence of image deterioration caused by image compression by selecting an appropriate compression parameter upon compressing a composite image generated by compositing a plurality of image data. To this end, an image processing apparatus according to this embodiment has the following arrangement.

Abstract: A data communication apparatus which is capable of preventing reception of undesired data by a destination without increasing the load on a network, etc. Data and a destination thereof are input. A sender ID related to a sender who sends the input data is input. The input data is sent to the input destination. A sender ID for data transmission to the input destination is permitted is stored as a permission ID. The input sender ID is collated with the stored permission ID. Whether to permit data transmission is determined according to the collation result.

Abstract: When there is a possibility where an undesirable printing result may be caused, a preview image useful for the check of the printing result is displayed, prior to an actual printing, to a user. Prior to the printing an image based on data after an image processing of an image data, it is determined whether or not there is a possibility in which an undesirable printing result may be caused based on the image data and, when it is determined that there is the possibility, a warning message is issued. When it is determined that there is a possibility in which an undesirable printing result may be caused, a printer driver simulates the image processing by the printing apparatus to prepare the data after the image processing. A display apparatus displays, prior to the printing of the image, a preview image based on the data after the image processing.

Abstract: In a system in which a host computer and MFP are connected via a communication medium such as a network or the like, upon transmitting image data stored in a box of the MFP to the host computer, the transmission data size (file size) is displayed before transmission. The user can transmit image data with a desired file size. When the amount of transmission data is large, the load on resources such as a memory, CPU, and the like of a device as a destination of transmission can be reduced.