Image processing device and image forming apparatus

摘要

An image processing device includes an acquisition unit and an image processing unit. The image processing unit makes a similarity determination for each of pages following a first page, thereby searches for a similar header image resembling a reference header image and a similar footer image resembling a reference footer image, and deletes, from image data of the pages following the first page, image data of a page where a similar footer image exists and a region other than a region where the similar footer image exists is blank.

主权项

1. An image processing device comprising:
an acquisition unit that acquires image data of a plurality of pages; and an image processing unit that performs image processing on the image data acquired by the acquisition unit, wherein the image processing unit is configured to recognize a header region and a footer region in image data of a first page included in the image data of the plurality of pages, to set an image existing in the header region and an image existing in the footer region respectively as a reference header image and a reference footer image, and to make a similarity determination as to whether the reference header image and the reference footer image are each similar to another image, and by making the similarity determination for each of the pages following the first page, the image processing unit searches for a similar header image resembling the reference header image and a similar footer image resembling the reference footer image, and the image processing unit deletes, from image data of the pages following the first page, image data of a page where the similar footer image exists and a region other than a region where the similar footer image exists is blank.