Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a character recognition unit that recognizes a character included in image information and outputs character information, a searching unit that searches for a character string in the character information output from the image information, in accordance with search instruction information that instructs the character string including at least one character included in the image information to be searched for and association information that associates in advance a first character serving as an input target to the character recognition unit with a second character that is output when the character recognition unit recognizes the first character, and a correcting unit that corrects the character string hit in searching, based on the association information.