摘要 |
To detect an image region to be an object of thinning processing appropriately and through the use of simple processing. An image processing apparatus detects a line region being a region sandwiched by white pixel regions and consisting only of a non-white pixel region, and detects a thinning candidate region being a region sandwiched by black pixel regions in the line region. A thinning region is detected from the inside of the thinning candidate region. |