Image processing system, apparatus, method and computer readable medium for cropping a document with tabs among sides

摘要

Provided are an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, a computer-readable medium storing a computer program and an image processing system cropping a document image from image data including a document region having a tab. The image processing apparatus includes a line determination unit for determining a line extending the boundary of the document region in the tab portion and a line extending the boundary of the document region in the non-tab portion, respectively, a selector for selecting, in accordance with the setting designating the outside or the inside of the document region, one line either in the outside or in the inside from the among lines determined by the line determination unit, and an image cropper for cropping an image of the document region with the selected line as a boundary line.

主权项

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:
an image input unit for taking image data, generated by capturing an image of a document having a rectangle region and a tab portion provided on a side of the rectangle region, as input; a line determination unit for detecting from coordinates of pixels in the image data and on a side of the image data having a tab portion in said image data, a line extending the boundary of the tab portion opposite to the boundary of the rectangle region, and a line extending the boundary of the rectangle region; a selector for selecting, in accordance with a setting that designates an outside or an inside of said document region, a line in the outside or in the inside of said document region from the lines detected by said line determination unit; and an image cropper for cropping an image of said document region with said selected line as a boundary line.