Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus and computer-readable medium for obtaining duplicates of a document in a bound form

摘要

Disclosed is an image processing apparatus including a reading section to read a document and to obtain image data, the document including a plurality of sheets and having a binding portion; a storage section to store the image data; an operating section to accept an operating instruction to designate a position of the binding portion of the document, to designate a page order on one side of the binding portion of the document, and to designate one face out of faces of the sheets, from which a reading operation is started; and a controller, in accordance with the designation, to determine an image area corresponding to one page of the document, to divide the image data into pieces of page image data based on the image area, and to respectively give identifiers to the pieces of the divided page image data following a page order of the document.

主权项

1. An image processing apparatus, comprising:
a reading section to read a brochure-shaped document and to obtain image data of the document, the document including a plurality of sheets and having a binding portion provided along a line which divides the document into two, wherein each of the sheets has two pages on one face, the two pages being divided by the binding portion; a storage section to store the image data obtained by the reading section; an operating section to accept an operating instruction by a user to designate each of:
a position of the binding portion of the document, a higher or lower page number between two pages partitioned along the binding portion on one face of each of the sheets, or an ascending order or a descending order of the page number on one side divided by the binding portion of a stack of the sheets, andone face of the sheets from which a reading operation by the reading section is started; and a controller, in accordance with the designation through the operating section, to determine an image area corresponding to one page of the document, to divide the image data into pieces of page image data page by page based on the image area and to restore the pieces of the divided page image data in the storage section, and to respectively give identifiers to the pieces of the divided page image data following a page order of the document.