摘要 |
<p>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide technology which makes it possible to recognize and index technical drawings, forms, etc., fast. SOLUTION: A document begins to be scanned (20) by using a scanner connected to a computer and then an arbitrary point P in at least one box of the document is specified (250) by using a pointing device of the computer; and characters in the box are stored (280) in a 1st database connected to the computer so as to recognize (270) them through OCR and the document which is thus scanned is indexed.</p> |