IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, SORTER, AND PROGRAM

摘要

An image processing device of the present invention is an image processing device that reads an address of a piece of mail, comprising: a storage section that correlatively stores image data of the piece of mail containing an address region in which the address of said piece of mail is present and region data that represent a position of said address region of the piece of mail; an obtaining section that obtains image data of said piece of mail; a search section that searches said storage section for image data that match the image data obtained by said obtaining section with respect to regions other than said address region; an extraction section that extracts a region represented by region data correlated with image data retrieved by said search section as an address region of said piece of mail from the image data obtained by said obtaining section; and a read section that reads an address from the address region extracted by said extraction section.