Electronic Document Generation System, Electronic Document Generation Apparatus, and Recording Medium

摘要

An electronic document generation apparatus extracts a processing target area including a row area from a scanned image of an original document and detects the dimensions of the row area, the row area being an area of either a whole or partial range of a row of character string arranged in one direction in the scanned image. The apparatus determines an arrangement-direction character size on the basis of the dimensions of the row area, and sends out image data of the processing target area and an instruction to perform OCR processing on the processing target area to an external apparatus. The apparatus then receives a processing result of the OCR processing from the external apparatus, and arranges a character string of the processing result in the electronic document on the basis of the arrangement-direction character size to generate an electronic document.

主权项

1. An electronic document generation system comprising:
a first apparatus configured to generate an electronic document on the basis of a scanned image of an original document; and a second apparatus configured to execute optical character recognition processing on the scanned image upon a request received from the first apparatus and send out a processing result of the optical character recognition processing to the first apparatus, the first apparatus including: an extraction unit configured to extract a processing target area from the scanned image, the processing target area including a row area that is an area of a whole or partial range of a row of character string arranged in one direction in the scanned image; a detection unit configured to detect dimensions of the row area; a determination unit configured to determine an arrangement-direction character size on the basis of the dimensions of the row area, the arrangement-direction character size being a character size of characters in the processing target area and being a character size in an arrangement direction of the row of character string; an instruction sending unit configured to send out image data of the processing target area and an instruction to perform the optical character recognition processing on the processing target area to the second apparatus; a reception unit configured to receive a processing result of the optical character recognition processing performed on the processing target area from the second apparatus; and a generation unit configured to generate the electronic document by arranging a character string of the processing result in the electronic document on the basis of the arrangement-direction character size determined by the determination unit.