Abstract: A document processing apparatus has a control section. The control section determines that at least some of a plurality of colors contained in input document data are a determined color group, determines at least one set of confusion colors of the colors contained in the determined color group based on confusion color information defined in association with color blindness of a human being in a predetermined color component space, and performs predetermined process for portions of the colors contained in the determined confusion color set, in the input document data.

Abstract: An apparatus for recognizing characters includes a text structure analyzing unit that analyzes an input image of text composed of mixed typed and handwritten characters and separates the input text image into predefined text imaging regions, a character clipping unit that clips characters one by one in each of the text imaging regions separated by the text structure analyzing unit, a feature vectors calculating unit that calculates feature vectors of the clipped characters for each of the text imaging regions, a feature vectors aggregating unit that aggregates the calculated feature vectors over a predefined range of the input text image, and a typed and handwritten character separation unit that separates characters involved in the input text image into the typed characters and the handwritten characters, based on a result of the aggregation by the feature vectors aggregating unit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an area splitting section that splits whole image areas of a first page before edition and a second page which has been edited into plural regions; an alignment section that performs relative alignments between each of the corresponding split regions of the first page image and the second page image, produced by the area splitting section; and an extraction section that extracts edit information from the second page image by comparing the first page image with the second mage image which have been aligned by the alignment section.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a first memory that stores a first document file; a second memory that stores a second document file obtained by revising the first document file; an extraction unit that extracts a revised area of the second document file based on the first document file corresponding to the second document file and the second document file; and an extracted area specifying file generation unit that generates a file specifying the revision area extracted by the extraction unit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a first positioning part that performs positioning between a first original image and a second original image which is obtained after execution of additional entry, with respect to an entire original; a first extraction part that extracts difference information between the first original image and the second original image subjected to the positioning by the first positioning part; a second positioning part that locally performs positioning between the first original image and the second original image based on the difference information extracted by the first extraction part; and a second extraction part that extracts additional entry information from the second original image between the first original image and the second original image subjected to the positioning by the second positioning part.

Abstract: An educational material processing apparatus includes: an input unit that inputs an image data of a test material including a plurality of questions, a plurality of answer columns corresponding to the plurality of questions, and accuracy judgment marks indicating whether answers included in the answer columns are correct or not; an identification unit that identifies a position of an answer column judged to include a wrong answer based on at least one of the accuracy judgment marks in the image data of the test material; and a generation unit that generates the image data of the test material including a question corresponding to the answer column judged to include the wrong answer, the position of the answer column identified by the identification unit, with the answer column in vacant state.

Abstract: An material processing apparatus: includes: an original information storage unit that stores an electronic data on a material having an answer column; an image input unit that obtain an image data from the material in which the answer column is filled with an answer and an accuracy judgment on the answer is added; an original retrieval unit that retrieves an electronic data on an original of the material out of the stored data; a target area acquisition unit that grasps a recognition target area from the electronic data on the original; an additional data extraction unit that extracts additional contents in the recognition target area from the image data; a calculation unit that performs marking summation of the accuracy judgment; and a print unit that prints the marking summation result of accuracy on the material on which the accuracy judgment is added.

Abstract: A document processing device comprises: an image capturing unit that captures an image and acquires image data; a region separating section that extracts from the image data, image data of a printed region and image data of a hand-drawn region; a printed text data acquiring section that acquires printed text data in the printed region; a hand-drawn text data acquiring section that acquires hand-drawn text data in the hand-drawn region; a printed language specifying section that specifies language of the printed text data; a hand-drawn language specifying section that specifies language of the hand-drawn text data; a translation processing section that generates translated text data by translating the printed text data to the language that has been specified by the hand-drawn language specifying section.

Abstract: A document translation method having extracting a term from a document, executing a substitute process and outputting the term in a predetermined manner. The process of executing a substitute process on the term is performed in a translating process when the term from the document matches a term predetermined by a user. The substitute process is corresponding to the term and predetermined by the user.

Abstract: In a translation processing method, a document is input; characteristic information is extracted from the input document; a translation style is selected according to the characteristic information; and the input document is translated using the selected translation style.

Abstract: A translation device comprises a character recognition unit that recognizes text data in a text region of an input image; a translator that translates the text data in the text region; and a layout configuration processor that generates data containing the translated text data in the text region and graphics in the input image, wherein a layout of the input image is maintained in a layout of the image of the data generated by the layout configuration processor.

Abstract: A document editing device has a editing unit and a supplementary information editing unit. The editing unit edits a manuscript element of a document. The supplementary information editing unit edits the supplementary information of the document based on a result of editing the manuscript element by the editing unit. The document is a electronic document read by a reading device.

Abstract: A translation processing method comprising: registering a type of annotation with a corresponding translation rule in a table; identifying a text to be processed; extracting a type of annotation and character information from the text identified at the identifying step; identifying a text element to which the annotation extracted at the extracting step is to be added; determining a translation rule corresponding to the type of annotation by referring to the table; and translating the text element identified in the annotation identifying step, by applying the translation rule determined at the translation rule determining step is provided.

Abstract: A translation device has a translation processing unit that outputs character-area-character data by performing a translation process on the character-area-character data of an input image representing a figure-containing document, and outputting figure-area-character data by performing a translation process on the figure-area-character data of an input image representing a figure-containing document, a figure identification information searching unit that searches figure identification information used to identify a figure contained in a character area of the figure-containing-translation data, a linked page number searching unit that searches a page number in a character area of the figure-containing-translation data, a page number extracting unit that extracts a page number of a page included in figure area of is figure identification information, and a page number rewriting unit that rewrites the searched page number linked to the figure identification information to the extracted page number of a page.

Abstract: A material processing apparatus includes: a reading unit configured to obtain image data from material; a correct/incorrect determination recognizing unit that extracts entry contents of correct/incorrect determinations for answers to the answer fields from the image data; a distributed point information extracting unit that extracts the distributed point information from the image data; a distributed point acquiring unit that correlates extraction results by the correct/incorrect determination recognizing unit and the distributed point information extracting unit; and a point totaling unit that totals points on the correct/incorrect determinations entered into the material according to the extraction results by the correct/incorrect determination recognizing unit and the distributed point information extracting unit, and the result of the correlation.

Abstract: A material processing method has a process of reading image data of a material. The material has answer fields and information items on points distributed to the answer fields. The method also has extracting the distributed point information items based on the image data, associating the distributed point information items with answer fields to recognize the points distributed to each answer field, storing a result recognized the points distributed to each answer field as answer/distributed point correspondence information, recognizing correct/incorrect answer determining contents from the image data, and performing point totaling on the correct/incorrect answer determining contents based on the answer/distributed point correspondence information.

Abstract: An apparatus for recognizing characters includes a text structure analyzing unit that analyzes an input image of text composed of mixed typed and handwritten characters and separates the input text image into predefined text imaging regions, a character clipping unit that clips characters one by one in each of the text imaging regions separated by the text structure analyzing unit, a feature vectors calculating unit that calculates feature vectors of the clipped characters for each of the text imaging regions, a feature vectors aggregating unit that aggregates the calculated feature vectors over a predefined range of the input text image, and a typed and handwritten character separation unit that separates characters involved in the input text image into the typed characters and the handwritten characters, based on a result of the aggregation by the feature vectors aggregating unit.

Abstract: A character recognition apparatus includes: a separation processing unit that separates, into printed character portions and handwritten character portions, data of a document in which printed characters and handwritten characters are mixed; a printed character portion recognition processing unit that character-recognizes the printed character portions; and a handwritten character portion recognition processing unit that utilizes the character recognition result of the printed character portions to character-recognize the handwritten character portions.

Abstract: A Hough transform unit executes Hough transform to HIGH pixels of outline binary image data inputted thereto, and stores the calculation result in a Hough space data storage. A Hough space data calculating/projecting unit sequentially reads out data stored in the Hough space data storage, executes a specific calculation, and thereafter stores the calculation result sequentially in a calculated projection data storage. An angle detector sequentially reads out calculated frequency data stored in the calculated projection data storage, calculates the maximal value of the data read out, and detects an angle that gives the maximal value as the skew angle. The image processing device, being thus configured, allows detecting and correcting the skew angle with high accuracy, even when the input image contains image elements such as photograph images and dot images.

Abstract: The present invention provides a character recognition apparatus including: plural dictionary databases that contain terms or characters classified into respective fields; a determination unit that determines which field the contents of a document shown by document image data belong to; a selection unit that selects a dictionary database pertaining to the field determined by the determination unit from among the plural dictionary databases; a recognition unit that recognizes a term or a character written in the document shown by the document image data by using the terms or characters stored in the selected dictionary database as candidates; and an output unit that outputs the result of recognition by the recognition unit.